Exchanges
Eurex has announced that Eric Leupold will succeed Robbert Booij as chief executive officer, effective 1 January 2027. Booij, who joined the exchange in 2024 after more than a decade at ABN Amro, decided not to extend his mandate. Under Booij's leadership, Eurex has experienced "strong growth, record business volumes and disciplined cost management," the exchange said in a statement. Leupold currently serves as managing director of the exchange's cash market and chief of staff of Deutsche Börse Group's trading and clearing division. Since joining Deutsche Börse Group in 2009, he has held a number of senior leadership positions across the organisation, including roles in DB1 Ventures, cash market, and trading and clearing strategy.
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing has renewed the appointment of Bonnie Chan as chief executive officer for a further three-year term from 1 March 2027 to 28 February 2030. Chan became HKEX's first female CEO in March 2024. She joined HKEX in 2020 and has previously held roles across several HKEX subsidiaries, including Hong Kong Futures Exchange, The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong and their clearing houses.
CME Group has announced a series of senior leadership appointments across its finance and legal divisions. Jack Tobin has been appointed as chief financial officer, effective March 2027. Tobin will succeed Lynne Fitzpatrick, who is set to become chief executive officer in March. He currently serves as chief accounting officer, a position he has held since 2015, and will become deputy chief financial officer in November 2026 to support the leadership transition. Tobin joined CME Group in 2002 and has overseen the company's accounting, corporate development and finance functions.
CME Group has also promoted John Marchese to general counsel. Marchese joined CME Group in 2011 to lead the company's litigation function and most recently served as managing director and associate general counsel for litigation and information technology. Prior to joining CME Group, he held leadership positions at Arthur Andersen and Latham & Watkins. He succeeds Jonathan Marcus, who will step down as general counsel after serving in the role since 2022. Matthew Render has been appointed as chief accounting officer. Render joined CME Group as deputy chief accounting officer in August 2026. Previously, he held finance roles at Citadel, BP and Ernst & Young.
Adam Husted has joined Euronext as senior sales manager, based in the Netherlands, focusing on the exchange operator's multi-asset trading and clearing solutions, with a particular emphasis on fixed income and repo markets. Husted joins from Eurex, where he spent nearly eight years in a range of senior sales and relationship management roles, most recently as head of membership sales and relationship management for fixed income and currencies. Prior to that, he served as EMEA head of sales at collateral management technology provider CloudMargin.
Euroclear has appointed James Chang as chief executive officer for Asia Pacific, effective 1 December 2026. Based in Hong Kong, Chang will lead the firm's strategy across the region and report to group chief executive officer Valérie Urbain. He joins Euroclear from PwC, where he led the firm's consulting organisation in Greater China and subsequently headed its financial services practice. Earlier in his career, Chang held finance roles at JPMorgan and Spear, Leeds & Kellogg, now part of Goldman Sachs. He will succeed Philippe Laurensy, who is set to retire in mid-2027 after 40 years with Euroclear.
ICE has appointed Stelios Tselikas as head of metals, a newly created role reflecting the exchange group's expanding presence in precious metals benchmarks and market infrastructure. Based in London, Tselikas previously served as head of interest rate derivatives at ICE and has held a number of senior positions across the group, including head of corporate development at ICE Clear Europe and chief operating officer of ICE Benchmark Administration.
New Zealand Exchange has appointed Hishaam Mirza as chief executive officer. Mirza joins the exchange after a 14-year tenure at the Guardians of New Zealand Superannuation, where he most recently served as head of direct investments, overseeing investments across real assets, technology, healthcare and financial services. Earlier in his career, he held positions with EDF Energy, Lazard & Co., BP and IBM in London, Melbourne and New Zealand. Mirza succeeds Mark Peterson.
Abaxx, the start-up commodity exchange based in Singapore, has promoted Joe Raia to president. Raia, who spent more than 15 years working in commodity futures at CME and Goldman Sachs, was part of the team that founded the parent company of Abaxx in 2018 and helped it obtain exchange and clearinghouse licenses from the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
Banks, Brokers and Trading Firms
Robert Cheeseman has joined Marex as head of prime services, Asia, based in Hong Kong. Cheeseman brings more than 25 years of experience across Asian markets and has previously held senior roles at Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX), where he most recently served as managing director and co-head of client development. Earlier in his career, he was head of Asia-Pacific listed derivatives execution and clearing at Credit Suisse and spent almost six years at Morgan Stanley leading its Asia-Pacific listed derivatives execution business.
Jim Hraska has rejoined Barclays as global head of fixed income prime brokerage, based in New York. Hraska returns to the bank from the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp., where he most recently served as managing director of consulting services. During his 10 years at DTCC, he also held senior leadership positions including head of client solutions and head of product development at the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation. Prior to joining DTCC, Hraska spent nearly nine years at Barclays in a series of financing and prime brokerage leadership roles.
Artem Korenyuk has joined Barclays as head of digital asset strategy, based in New York. Korenyuk joins from Citi, where he most recently served as managing director and head of enterprise digital assets. Prior to that, he spent nearly 12 years at the DTCC, holding a series of senior leadership roles including managing director and head of institutional trade processing strategy, growth, platforms and data, and executive director of innovation and digital asset strategy.
ABN AMRO Clearing has appointed Nathalie Depauw as chief risk officer and a member of its managing board. Depauw joins from Neuflize OBC, where she has served as chief risk officer for France and a member of the executive committee since 2021. Earlier in her career, she held senior risk management and audit positions at Société Générale in France and the US and at HSBC in Hong Kong, with responsibilities spanning the Asia-Pacific region.
Britannia Global Markets has appointed Lord Stanley Fink as chairman. Fink previously served as chief executive officer of Man Group from 2000 to 2007, during which time the firm became one of the world's largest listed hedge fund managers. He later served as chief executive officer and chairman of International Standard Asset Management and most recently was a board member at Marex.
Société Générale-FORGE, the digital assets subsidiary of Société Générale, has appointed Gildas Le Treut as chief business officer. Based in Paris, Le Treut joins from Société Générale Securities Services (SGSS), where he most recently served as co-head of coverage, marketing and solutions and was a member of the executive committee. During more than eight years at SGSS, he also served as global head of coverage and vice chairman of the supervisory board of SGSS Germany. Prior to joining Société Générale, Le Treut held senior roles at ABN AMRO Clearing.
Bill Stenning has retired from his role as head of market infrastructure and UK public affairs at Société Générale after more than 15 years with the bank. During his tenure, he also served as managing director for clearing, regulatory and strategic affairs and as head of UK public affairs. Prior to joining Société Générale in 2011, Stenning was head of business development at the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. and chief operating officer of SwapsWire, the dealer-backed electronic confirmation platform later acquired by Markit. Earlier in his career, he held positions at SunGard, Cargill, Chase Manhattan and KPMG, and served on a number of industry bodies and infrastructure boards, including CLS Group and LCH SA.
Michael Barclay has joined DRW's global strategy team. Based in London, Barclay joins from Euronext, where he most recently served as derivatives business development manager. Prior to that, he was sales manager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at FundApps and spent almost five years at Tradition.
Mark Lovell has joined Standard Chartered in London in a product management role covering exchange-traded derivatives and OTC clearing, exchange-traded derivatives execution, and prime and financing. Lovell joins from GFO-X, where he most recently served as head of operations, having previously held the role of market operations manager. Prior to joining GFO-X, he worked as a senior project lead and business analyst at Bank of America and Deutsche Bank, specialising in futures, options, OTC derivatives and foreign exchange. He brings more than 25 years of experience across brokers, vendors and investment banks.
Technology Vendors and Service Providers
Arnaud Vaidie has joined Trading Technologies as global head of revenue operations, based in New York. Vaidie joins from Duco, where he served as head of revenue operations and established the firm's revenue operations function. Prior to that, he held senior commercial and strategic roles at BitGo, including head of strategic partnerships and executive director of revenue strategy and operations.
Rob Bernstein has joined Kaizen, a firm that provides regulatory reporting assurance for financial institutions, as chief financial officer. Bernstein joins from SteelEye, where he served as chief financial officer since 2020. He brings more than 15 years of financial leadership experience across technology and regulatory technology firms and previously held chief financial officer roles at RegTek Solutions and TIM Group. Sam North has also joined Kaizen as chief product officer. North joins from the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp., where he spent more than 15 years and most recently served as executive director of product management. During his tenure at DTCC, he held a range of leadership roles spanning regulatory reporting, post-trade services and product development.
Eventus, a provider of market surveillance technology, has appointed Jay Biondo as head of product and regulatory affairs, a newly combined role reporting to chief executive officer Cameron Routh. Based in the Chicago area, Biondo joins from Trading Technologies, where he spent nearly nine years and most recently served as head of surveillance. Prior to that, he was director of surveillance products design and general counsel at Neurensic and served as chief compliance officer at Allston Trading. Earlier in his career, he held regulatory and enforcement roles at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and the Illinois Secretary of State Securities Department.
Transient.AI, a startup founded by technology experts with experience working at investment banks, has appointed Michael Ponniah as chief technology officer. Ponniah joins the firm from Amazon, where he spent nearly a decade in senior engineering leadership roles across Amazon Web Services, Alexa AI and the company's Last Mile logistics business. Prior to Amazon, he spent seven years at Credit Suisse developing risk management systems, electronic trading infrastructure and request-for-quote platforms. He began his career at Citigroup working on electronic trading and fixed-income technology. Transient.AI recently announced an investment from the strategic investment arm of Nasdaq, which is also a client of the firm.
Digital Assets and Blockchain Technology
Luuk Strijers has been appointed head of Coinbase Exchanges, with oversight of Coinbase Exchange, Coinbase Derivatives Exchange and Deribit. Based in Dubai, Strijers most recently served as chief executive officer of Deribit and previously spent nearly five years as the cryptocurrency exchange's chief commercial officer. Before joining Deribit in 2019, he held senior leadership positions at Singapore Exchange, including director and head of products.
Warren Jenson has joined Polymarket as chief financial officer, becoming the prediction markets platform's first company-wide finance chief. Jenson most recently served as chief financial officer of Nielsen and was previously president and chief financial officer of LiveRamp. Earlier in his career, he held chief financial officer roles at Amazon, Electronic Arts, Delta Air Lines and NBC. He currently serves on the boards of Dropbox, Ripple and DigitalOcean. He joins Polymarket as the company expands its US business following the launch of its CFTC-regulated platform.
Polymarket has also appointed Rob Eskridge as head of US government relations. Eskridge joins from the New York Stock Exchange, where he most recently worked in federal government affairs on issues affecting US capital markets, financial services and emerging technologies. Previously, he served as chief of staff to Congressman Al Green, a senior member of the House Financial Services Committee, and as counsel to the US House Committee on Ethics. Earlier in his career, Eskridge was an assistant attorney general in Ohio.
Ripple, the blockchain infrastructure company, has hired a senior futures exchange executive to support its tokenization strategy. Joseph Thompson, head of treasury at the London Metal Exchange, has joined Ripple as director, trading and markets, based in London. During more than nine years at LME, Thompson held leadership roles in investment and liquidity and collateral risk management. Prior to the LME, Thompson worked in treasury and liquidity risk management roles at Deutsche Bank and ICAP and earlier held risk management positions at LCH. Ripple is a major player in stablecoin-based payments infrastructure and is seeking to offer custody and payments services to traditional financial institutions. In 2025 it paid $1.25 billion to acquire Hidden Road, a prime broker and futures clearing firm.
Tim Bevan has joined Cleartoken, a start-up clearinghouse for digital assets, as senior commercial director. Bevan most recently served as chief executive officer of Cor Prime, an institutional digital asset lending platform. Prior to that, he was founder and chief executive officer of ETC Group, where he oversaw the launch of exchange-traded digital asset products, and previously served as chief executive officer UK and global head of prime at BCS Global Markets. He also sits on the FTSE Russell Digital Assets Advisory Committee and advises Finery Markets.
Sean Ballard has joined Bybit as head of derivatives and institutional business. Ballard joins from Jump Trading, where he led the firm's high-frequency futures trading business across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and Latin America. He also served as a senior trader on the Jump Crypto team, managing trading initiatives on centralised exchanges and leading strategic partnership initiatives.
Hyperliquid Policy Center, the Washington-based advocacy arm of Hyperliquid, has appointed Danielle Beck as head of government relations. Beck joins from the Corn Refiners Association, where she served as vice president. Prior to that, she spent three years at public affairs consultancy Invariant, most recently as senior director of government affairs, and held a series of government affairs roles at the National Cattlemen's Beef Association. Hyperliquid operates a decentralized trading platform on its own blockchain and is seeking regulatory approval from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission so that US customers can access its markets. Originally focused on cryptocurrencies, the platform now supports trading in perpetual futures based on equities, commodities and other real-world assets.
Steve Goodsell has left his role as chief technology officer of Crypto.com-owned prediction market exchange CDNA. In a LinkedIn post, Goodsell said his departure followed a cost-saving round at parent company Crypto.com. He joined the group as chief technology officer in 2022 following Crypto.com's acquisition of Nadex and Small Exchange, after spending more than 15 years as head of exchange and execution technology at IG.
