SWIFT
SWIFT on podcasts: where it advertises, what it's offering listeners, and what hosts say about it when they're not being paid.
Sponsorships
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“In the 1890s they would sit down weekly in the office of swift accountant Arthur Ver and he would record in a book the sales territories amounts that they would have and they would allocate you could have 25% of the market you had 15% of the market the price for quarter was this or that and they essentially controlled the market and reduced the competition between them.”
Swift engaged in anticompetitive market manipulation and cartel behavior, allocating market territories and fixing prices to reduce competition.
▶ Hear it“Swift went live in 1977 as a messaging network between banks, but it doesn't actually move any money. It sends instructions and the money hops through a chain of correspondent banks.”
Discussed as financial infrastructure with weaknesses and political vulnerabilities, presented factually.
▶ Hear it“They want to build a system and do what we call today vertical integration. They're still owned by the farms and by the drovers who bring them in there. They're sold to the packers in Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, Fort Worth, Texas. What they're really doing is preventing competition. So in the odds and in the teens, Swift makes a big entrance into the poultry business which it stays in for the next 60 odd years.”
The company is discussed in a historical context regarding its business practices and market consolidation strategies.
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