Alexandre Kech is Head of Securities & FX Markets, APAC at SWIFT, responsible with his team for SWIFT’s strategy and product offering in the Asia-Pacific region for the securities & FX customer segments. He is also looking at FinTech engagement in the region with a particular focus on Blockchain/Distributed Ledger Technology for securities & FX.

Securities & FX activities represent more than 50% of SWIFT’s messaging volumes with a double digits annual growth. SWIFT delivers products and services to more than 80 securities market infrastructures (Exchange, CCP, CSD) as well as CLS, and to thousands of asset managers, brokers, custodians, investment banks, enabling them to transact in a secure, resilient, reliable, standardized, automated and, therefore, cost-efficient way.