Ms. Yang Wen has served as the Head of North Asia, Swift, since 2025, based in Shanghai.

As Head of North Asia, Ms. Yang is responsible for business development in the region, delivering Swift's services to the financial community, including market infrastructures, financial institutions, and corporate clients. She also leads and drives the execution of Swift's strategy and business development plans in the market.

Prior to joining Swift, Ms. Yang served as Head of Securities and Trust Business at DBS China, leading the securities business strategy of the DBS Group in China. Before DBS, she was Head of Product and Client Management for Markets and Securities Services at Citibank (China). Earlier in her career, she also held positions at leading global financial institutions such as HSBC and Deutsche Bank.

Ms. Yang has been deeply embedded in China's banking industry for nearly 30 years, accumulating extensive expertise and building strong relationships with Chinese financial institutions and regulatory authorities.

She completed the MBA program jointly offered by Tsinghua University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2002.

About Swift

As a global member-owned cooperative, Swift is the world's leading provider of secure financial messaging services. Swift provides its community with a messaging platform and communication standards, as well as products and services in areas such as connectivity, integration, identity, data analytics, and compliance.

Swift's messaging platform, products, and services connect over 11,500 banking, securities, market infrastructure, and corporate users across more than 200 countries and territories. Swift does not hold funds or manage accounts for customers; instead, it enables its global user community to communicate securely and exchange standardized financial messages reliably, thereby supporting financial exchange across global and local markets and facilitating international trade and commerce.

Built on the trust of its users, Swift works relentlessly to deliver excellence, support the community in countering cyber threats, and explore ways to reduce costs, mitigate risk, and improve operational efficiency. Its products and services support user community access and integration, business data, reference data, and financial crime compliance needs. Swift also fosters close collaboration across the financial community at global, regional, and national levels to help shape market practices, define standards, and discuss issues or concerns of common interest.

Headquartered in Belgium, Swift's international governance and regulatory oversight reinforce the neutral and global character of its cooperative structure. With offices located around the world, Swift's business covers virtually all financial centers.