Javier Pérez-Tasso is Chief Executive Officer of Swift, the global cooperative enabling secure and reliable processing of over 11 billion financial messages each year for its community of more than 11,500 institutions.

Since his appointment as CEO in July 2019, Pérez-Tasso has driven the introduction of Swift’s strategy to enable instant and frictionless transactions worldwide, in close alignment with the G20’s goals for enhancing the speed, cost, transparency, and accessibility of cross-border payments.

Under his leadership, Swift has enhanced its product portfolio with new solutions that reduce industry costs, increase transaction speed and transparency, and improve user experience. He has overseen the introduction of Swift Go to provide greater access to fast, predictable and secure cross-border payments to consumers and small businesses; AI powered anomaly detection tools to identify and stop fraudulent payments and solutions that transform the transparency of securities settlement transactions and He also successfully steered Swift through the start of the migration to ISO 20022 for cross-border payments and reporting – a major milestone for the global payments industry – and the launch of Swift’s Transaction Manager, which enables end-to-end transaction orchestration.

During Pérez-Tasso’s tenure, Swift has led multiple forward-looking collaborative innovation initiatives, including in the emerging areas of tokenized assets and central bank digital currencies. These have successfully shown the critical role that Swift can play in facilitating interoperability and the seamless global flow of value, regardless of the form it takes.

Since joining Swift in 1995, Pérez-Tasso has held various roles, including Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Executive, Americas & UK. While in this position he was executive sponsor of the Customer Security Programme, a key element of Swift’s ongoing commitment to operational resilience and a model of industry collaboration in the fight against cybercrime.