Euroclear Sweden appoints Jörgen Olofsson as new CIO

Euroclear Sweden is pleased to announce the appointment of Jörgen Olofsson as the new CTO/CIO. 

Mr Olofsson has extensive experience in IT from his time as CIO at Enento and Svenska Spel respectively. He has also held various senior positions at the Swedish Tax Authority and the Swedish Defence.

Euroclear Sweden´s CEO, Roger Storm said: "I am very pleased to welcome Jörgen to Euroclear. His digital transformation expertise and leadership in system modernization and change programs will be a true value-add for our business.”

Mr Olofsson will be part of the Euroclear Sweden Executive Committee and will be reporting to the Euroclear Sweden CEO. He will join Euroclear Sweden in November.

Euroclear group is the financial industry’s trusted provider of post trade services. Euroclear provides settlement, safe-keeping and servicing of domestic and cross- border securities for bonds, equities and derivatives to investment funds. Euroclear is a proven, resilient capital market infrastructure committed to delivering risk-mitigation, automation and efficiency at scale for its global client franchise.

The Euroclear group includes Euroclear Bank - which is rated AA+ by Fitch Ratings and AA by Standard & Poor’s - as well as Euroclear Belgium, Euroclear Finland, Euroclear France, Euroclear Nederland, Euroclear Sweden and Euroclear UK & Ireland. The Euroclear group settled the equivalent of EUR 897 trillion in securities transactions in 2020, representing 276 million domestic and cross-border transactions, and held EUR 32.8 trillion in assets for clients by end 2020.