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Posted on June 19, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 23, 2026
Syria conducted its first SWIFT transfer since the civil war, marking a significant step in its financial reintegration.
DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Syria this week carried out its first international bank transfer via the SWIFT international payment system since the outbreak of the country’s 14-year civil war, central bank governor Abdelkader Husriyeh said on Thursday, a milestone in Syria’s push to reintegrate into the global financial system.
Husriyeh told Reuters in Damascus that a direct commercial transaction was carried out from a Syrian to an Italian bank on Sunday.
"The door is now open to more such transactions," he said.
(Reporting by Timour Azhari;Editing by Alison Williams)
Syria completed its first international bank transfer via the SWIFT system since the start of the civil war.
The transaction was a direct commercial transfer from a Syrian bank to an Italian bank.
The central bank governor stated that 'the door is now open to more such transactions.'
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