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I started this article because, until March 2009, I used the TIPANET service within Europe, since SWIFT requires privacy data disclosed to USA authorities, which are seemingly not regulated by any privacy regulations, and seem to be using mined SWIFT data for commercial activities, rather than for fighting terrorism. The UK Co-Op bank in March 2010 refused a similar transfer request without a SWIFT waiver declaration. It is not clear if TIPANET has folded, or the UK Co-Op bank has erred. To finish this article, and clean the references needs the help of an expert, which I certainly am not!
Text of an email sent to UK SMILE bank customers 1 May 2007 posted by The Virtual Ranger recorded at http://www.naturenet.net/articles/swift.html
If you ask us to send a SWIFT payment to anywhere in the world or a TIPANET payment to the USA, you will need to agree to a declaration about how the transfer details could be used.
We'll need you to agree to the declaration each time you ask us to do a SWIFT payment to anywhere in the world or a TIPANET payment to the USA. Unfortunately, we can't process your request in these circumstances without your agreement to the declaration.
TIPANET payments to other parts of the world and euroCHAPS are not affected by this change.
This was evidently still true true on 15th March 2009,
24/03/2010 14:52:10 SMILE sent me this:
If you ask us to send a SWIFT payment to anywhere in the world or a TIPANET payment to the USA, you will need to agree to a declaration about how the transfer details could be used.
The Tipanet facility was withdrawn from Spain and other EU countries about 18 months ago and can only be used on transfers to the US.
As we have previously advised the only two options available to you are Structured payment were the declaration will need to be agreed or a Eurochaps. Tipanet payments also require the declaration to be agreed.
If anyone know where to find more recent and reliable data about this rather obscure organization, contributions welcome.... Timpo (talk) 14:52, 25 March 2010 (UTC) Timpo (talk) 14:52, 25 March 2010 (UTC)