- Former Dun & Bradstreet CTO brings more than 30 years of global technology leadership.
- Manos assumes responsibility for building on Swift’s reputation for operational excellence, security and resilience, and for its transition to an AI-enabled, post-quantum cryptography future, at a time when the company is embracing digital technologies such as blockchain as part of its infrastructure stack.
Brussels, 16 June 2026 – Swift today announced the appointment of Michael Manos as Chief Information Officer (CIO).
Manos will lead Swift’s technology platform strategy including network, security and cloud capabilities, ensuring Swift’s services and systems – over which 11,500 banks, financial institutions and corporates send the equivalent of world GDP every three days – remain secure, resilient and ready to support the company’s innovations for the global financial community, uplifting the payments experience and harnessing the benefits of tokenisation.
Manos will oversee Swift’s focus on post-quantum cryptography, its response to frontier AI, and the company’s multi-year roadmap to adopt new cryptographic standards while maintaining interoperability and uninterrupted service for the global financial industry as the threat landscape continues to evolve.
Manos joins Swift from Dun & Bradstreet, a leading global provider of business decision-making data and analytics, where he served as Chief Technology Officer. He brings more than 30 years of experience driving technology-led change and execution, having held senior leadership roles at companies including Fiserv, AOL and Microsoft, leading initiatives across technology operations, infrastructure, platform automation and the development of payment, banking and e-commerce platforms. Manos graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and holds multiple technology industry patents.
Manos replaces Cheri McGuire, who served as CTO since 2021 and is retiring.
Javier Pérez-Tasso, Chief Executive Officer at Swift, said: “Michael’s depth of experience leading large-scale, mission-critical technology organisations across platforms, data and security will be an asset for Swift and our global community.
“As the financial industry and technological landscape continues to evolve, Michael will lead our efforts to continue to invest in the resilience and security of our platforms as the company embraces digital technologies and enables responsible innovation. I would also like to express my gratitude to Cheri and wish her the best for her retirement. Her deep industry experience and contributions to Swift’s operational excellence, security and technology resilience have been invaluable over the last five years.”
Michael Manos, Chief Information Officer at Swift, said: “Swift sits at the heart of the global financial system and its network is fundamental to the functioning of the world economy. Its reputation for maintaining the highest levels of security and resiliency is well known and thousands of institutions place their trust in Swift every single day. As Swift works to ensure that regulated digital forms of value can be introduced securely and seamlessly into the ecosystem, I’m looking forward to working with our teams across the world to build on and maintain the trust of our community.”
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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 11,500 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 globally inclusive character of its cooperative structure. Swift’s global office network ensures an active presence in all the major financial centres.
