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Tech visionAugust 21 2023

Security and humanity at the core

Swift’s CTO talks to Liz Lumley about digital currencies, security, and the need to remember the humanity within innovation and experimentation.
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Security and humanity at the core

When Cheri McGuire arrived for her first day at Swift as the new chief technology officer, most of her team were working from home. While Swift was maintaining its operations at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, only a core set of staff were physically in the office.  

“I thought it was important that I come in physically to see the folks who were here to understand the lay of the land and what my new role was going to be,” says Ms McGuire. “I'm a visual person.”

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Liz Lumley is deputy editor at The Banker. She is a global specialist commentator on global financial technology or “fintech”. She has spent 30 years working in the financial technology space, most recently as director at VC Innovations and architect of the Fintech Talents Festival, managing director at Startupbootcamp FinTech London and an editor at financial services and technology newswire, Finextra. She was named Journalist of the Year for Technology and Digital Finance at State Street’s UK Press Awards for 2022.
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