- Former McKinsey Partner brings extensive international industry leadership to the cooperative
- Hiring accelerates delivery of Swift’s ambitious strategy
Brussels, 4 September 2025 – Swift today announced the appointment of Thomas Delaet as Chief Product Officer.
Delaet joins Swift from McKinsey & Company, where he spent 14 years working with financial institutions to drive technology transformation and enable faster innovation. He will lead Swift’s product group, delivering enhanced services that Swift’s community can use to provide an instant and frictionless experience through new data and technology solutions and emerging digital assets.
He brings deep financial industry and technology experience, working with banks and market infrastructure providers on payments and digital and technology transformations. His experience includes transforming operating models, architecture and cloud transformations, along with software engineering transformation, specifically tailored to the needs of mission-critical infrastructure providers.
Javier Pérez-Tasso, Chief Executive Officer, Swift, said: “Thomas’s leadership and broad expertise working with the financial industry on digital and technology transformation initiatives is a strong addition to Swift as we continue to support the industry’s transition to the new financial ecosystem. I’m looking forward to the experience Thomas will bring to Swift’s leadership team.”
Thomas Delaet, Chief Product Officer, Swift, said: “I’m excited to be joining Swift at such a pivotal moment for the industry. I look forward to working with our teams and customers to deliver products and meaningful innovation that enable the industry to continue to rely on Swift for secure and seamless cross-border finance.”
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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.
