SWIFT open to four more Iranian banks

Iran’s media reported on Thursday that four more of the country’s banks have been reconnected to SWIFT, the global provider of secure financial messaging services. The banks are all the foreign branches of key Iranian banks. They include the Yerevan branch of Bank Mellat, the Dushanbe branch of Tejarat Bank…

Bank Mellat opens European accounts to collect oil dues

Bank Mellat of Iran took initiative to open accounts with the European banks in order to collect overdue payments of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) worth 1.2 billion euros. It has also opened other accounts with foreign agent banks in Europe and Asia in a bid to facilitate receipt…