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a customer payment message and relates to the transfer of funds in payment for goods
received. Similarly, MT 799 is a free-format text message sent between banks and is treated
much like a secure form of e-mail. SWIFT enables its customers to have direct access to con-
firmations of foreign exchange and money market securities trades and derivative securities
transactions. SWIFTNet Mail provides a secure and reliable messaging service for transfer-
ring sensitive business documents, such as invoices, contracts, and signatures. SWIFT’s cus-
tomers can e-mail their messages through the highly secure and reliable SWIFTNet Mail
instead of the open Internet. As of September 2014, SWIFT had ...