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Swift appoints John Hunter as Chief Executive, Americas & U.K. Region

Swift appoints John Hunter as Chief Executive, Americas & U.K. Region

Company Information,
2 September 2021 | 3 min read

- Hunter previously led JPMorgan Chase’s Global Clearing business and brings extensive cash management and payments services experience to Swift

Brussels, 2 September 2021 — Swift today announced the appointment of John Hunter as Chief Executive of the Americas and U.K. Region. Hunter was most recently Managing Director at JPMorgan Chase, leading its Global Clearing business, and brings extensive experience in cash management, payment services and innovation fields.

Hunter’s focus at Swift will be on strategic customer relationships across these major markets, with a focus on enabling the industry to transform and create new services based on Swift’s underlying infrastructure that will enable instant and frictionless international transactions and rich data services across more than 4 billion accounts in 200 countries around the world.

Hunter, who begins in the role this week, is a respected industry thought leader on transaction services and has deep experience in the technology sector having also previously worked in financial services positions at Accenture, Adobe and Hewlett-Packard.

Swift Chief Business Development Officer, Rosemary Stone, commented: “At Swift, we are fundamentally transforming cross-border payments and securities processing aligned with our vision for instant and frictionless transactions globally.  John’s valuable and extensive experience will reinforce our industry focus and support our customers in the Americas and the U.K. as they leverage Swift’s expanding capabilities to create innovative new services for the consumers and businesses they serve.”

John Hunter, Chief Executive of the Americas and UK Region for Swift, said: “I am very proud to be joining Swift at a time when it is evolving its platform to deliver widespread benefits to the industry and unlock new opportunities for customers. Swift has long served as a trusted global partner to the industry, and I am delighted to support the next stage of the journey as financial institutions embrace its bold and exciting vision.”


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About Swift

Swift is a global member owned cooperative and the world’s leading provider of secure financial messaging services. We provide our community with a platform for messaging and standards for communicating, and we offer products and services to facilitate access and integration, identification, analysis and regulatory compliance.

Our messaging platform, products and services connect more than 11,000 banking and securities organisations, market infrastructures and corporate customers in more than 200 countries and territories. While Swift does not hold funds or manage accounts on behalf of customers, we enable our global community of users to communicate securely, exchanging standardised financial messages in a reliable way, thereby supporting global and local financial flows, as well as trade and commerce all around the world.

As their trusted provider, we relentlessly pursue operational excellence; we support our community in addressing cyber threats; and we continually seek ways to lower costs, reduce risks and eliminate operational inefficiencies. Our products and services support our community’s access and integration, business intelligence, reference data and financial crime compliance needs. Swift also brings the financial community together – at global, regional and local levels – to shape market practice, define standards and debate issues of mutual interest or concern.

Headquartered in Belgium, Swift’s international governance and oversight reinforces the neutral, global character of its cooperative structure. Swift’s global office network ensures an active presence in all the major financial centres.

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