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by Tabular-Iceberg 1575 days ago
> Not only do you need 1 (or more) BO or Senior BO PINs to verify the send

That doesn't sound impressive at all by modern standards. At the very least they should have some kind of challenge-response scheme.

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That would be easily implementable in a bank's SWIFT gpi software as that system gains traction. Probably doesn't add any value in the current system as the recipient as no way to confirm the challenge-response scheme was actually completed as would be implied (beyond, perhaps, coordination between sending and receiving institutions outside SWIFT proper). Although I could be simply not sufficiently creative enough.

The bigger point I should have made is that most send fraud doesn't actually occur on SWIFT and is conducted using falsified documents to give the impression of a correct send, typically to get funds released before the fraud is revealed. It relies much more on social engineering than any kind of actual systems hacking skill.