Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called the continued inclusion of Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, and its third-largest bank, Gazprombank, in the SWIFT interbank messaging system “unacceptable” on Thursday, 3 March—the day after the West decided to exclude seven Russian banks in response to the invasion of Ukraine (see EUROPE B12902A1).
The continued inclusion of Sberbank and Gazprombank in the SWIFT system is mainly due to requests from countries like Germany and...