16 September 2026

What is BRICS Pay, and can it rival the West’s SWIFT payments system?

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What is BRICS Pay, and can it rival the West’s SWIFT payments system?

BRICS Pay is a decentralised digital system for making international payments in currencies other than the dollar.

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