Pérez-Tasso to succeed Leibbrandt as Swift CEO
by Graham Buck
The bank-backed international payments network is promoting its current Americas and UK chief to the top post.
SWIFT Corporate Connectivity
Background
The theory goes: connect to SWIFT and all your bank connectivity problems are solved. This one connection replaces multiple bank channels with a single, secure and standardised window to some 11,000…
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