SWIFT Appoints Chief Auditor

SWIFT has appointed Peter De Koninck as chief auditor, following his time spent as acting chief auditor since April when when SWIFT’s previous chief auditor, Rich O’Brien, retired.

SWIFT says that De Koninck’s appointments follows an extensive internal and external search led by Alan Goldstein, the head of SWIFT’s Audit and Finance Committee.

De Koninck has been with SWIFT’s Internal Audit team since 1995, when he joined from PwC, where he was manager in the computer audit group. In 1999, he moved from Belgium to the U.S. to establish SWIFT’s U.S. audit team. He then returned to Belgium in 2004 after being appointed deputy chief auditor.

“Since his appointment as Acting Chief Auditor, Peter has skilfully steered SWIFT’s internal audit function through a period of growing challenges and increased scrutiny,” says Goldstein. “After going through an extensive search process and having evaluated a wide range of candidates in the marketplace, the Audit and Finance Committee and I selected Peter; we are confident both in his leadership and his ability to head up this important assurance function for SWIFT. I have every confidence he will take the function forward together with his team of highly skilled and competent audit professionals.”