Why bother breaking into SWIFT if you aren’t even going to send a single person to jail over, say, HSBC’s little shenanigans?
A cynic would say it with one word: blackmail.
… more likely, it’s just another case of total incompetence: they probably hacked SWIFT just to track some Russian oligarch’s money buying a skyscraper in central London, because in some circles the Cold War never ended.
