Regulators and Exchanges
The European Securities and Markets Authority has formally appointed Carlo Comporti as chair, effective 1 November. Comporti has served as a commissioner at Italy's financial markets regulator CONSOB since 2022 and has also been a member of ESMA’s board of supervisors and management board and chair of its Digital Finance Standing Committee. Before joining CONSOB, he held senior roles at Promontory, including chief executive officer of Promontory Italy and chief operating officer of Promontory Europe. Earlier in his career, he served as secretary general of the Committee of European Securities Regulators, where he was involved in its transition to ESMA.
ESMA has also appointed Carlos San Basilio, chairman of the Spanish National Securities Market Commission (ES CNMV), as a new member of ESMA’s Management Board, replacing Carlo Comporti.
Loh Khum Yean has been appointed to the board of directors of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, effective 1 November until 31 May 2029. Loh currently serves as chairman of the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore. Before retiring from the Administrative Service in 2023, he held permanent secretary roles in the Prime Minister’s Office (Public Service Division), Ministry of Law, Ministry of Trade and Industry and Ministry of Manpower. He has also held a number of public-sector board positions, including chairman of the Civil Service College.
John Berrigan has retired from the European Commission following more than four decades of public service. He most recently led the Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA), a role he held for six years. Earlier in his career, Berrigan worked in the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN), including preparations for the introduction of the euro. His career has spanned major developments in EU financial services, including the global financial crisis, the eurozone debt crisis and efforts to develop the EU’s capital markets.
Nodal Exchange announced that Paul Cusenza will retire as CEO on 15 March 2027, after more than 19 years leading the company. Demetri Karousos, currently CEO of Nodal Clear and President and COO of Nodal Exchange will succeed Cusenza as CEO of Nodal Exchange on 16 March. Cusenza will remain chair of the boards of both Nodal Exchange and Nodal Clear.
Tina Hasenpusch has stepped down from CME Group after 17 years with the exchange. She was most recently managing director and global head of clearing house operations, banking and collateral management. Hasenpusch previously served as chief executive officer of CME Clearing Europe, having earlier been its chief operating officer.
Chrissy Somers has been promoted to marketing manager for North American retail at CME Group, based in Chicago. Somers, a former teacher, joined CME Group in 2023 as a senior educational marketing specialist.
Euroclear has announced that Bhavna Haswani has joined as Asia-Pacific head of collateral management and digital assets within its product, strategy and innovation division, based in Hong Kong. Haswani reports to Elodie Norman, chief commercial officer for Asia-Pacific. Haswani joins from HSBC, where she was most recently director of digital assets strategy. Earlier in her career, she held vice president roles at JP Morgan and BNY and worked as a trader at Barclays Investment Bank, Deutsche Bank and Futures First.
Cboe Clear Europe has appointed Terry O’Brien as senior director of sales and business development, a newly created role based in London. He will report to Tim Beckwith, head of commercial and business development. O’Brien joins from FIS, where he was a sales executive focused on securities financing solutions. Prior to FIS, he spent more than five years at Pirum, most recently as director of origination sales. Earlier in his career, he held roles at HSBC, JP Morgan and Citigroup.
ASX has made three senior leadership appointments as part of its transformation and renewal programme under chief executive Anthony Attia:
Keir Barnes has been appointed chief financial officer, succeeding Andrew Tobin. Barnes joins from Dexus, where she has served as chief financial officer since 2021, following two years as deputy chief financial officer. She has more than two decades of experience across corporate finance, funds management, corporate advisory and chartered accounting.
Mark Peterson will become managing director of clearing and settlement, a newly constituted role. Peterson was previously chief executive of NZX for nine years until April 2026, having earlier served as head of markets. He has 35 years of experience in financial markets.
Elaine Vaisanen will become chief operating officer in December, succeeding Diona Rae, and will also lead ASX’s Accelerate transformation programme. Vaisanen has more than 25 years of global markets experience, predominantly at JP Morgan in Europe and Australia, where she was most recently head of fund services for Asia-Pacific.
In other ASX news, Allan McGregor has been promoted to head of derivatives and benchmarks. McGregor has spent more than 18 years at ASX and was previously head of rates and benchmarks, having earlier held senior roles across rates, strategy, derivatives and over-the-counter clearing services.
Banks, Brokers and Trading Firms
Lucy Bloomfield has retired from HSBC after almost three decades in the financial services industry. Bloomfield spent 13 years at HSBC, where she was most recently global head of financial market infrastructure, having previously served as global head of trading facilities and CCP management, head of CCP risk and director of CCP risk. Earlier in her career, she held roles at NYSE Euronext, CME and LCH. Bloomfield has also served on the board of Women in Listed Derivatives and as a trustee of the CareTrade UK Charitable Trust. She is currently a trustee director of HSBC Bank Pension Trust.
Simona Composto has joined HSBC as director and head of derivatives clearing sales for the UK and Middle East and North Africa, based in London. Composto joins from Bank of America, where she was director of futures and options, over-the-counter clearing, FX prime brokerage and futures and options prime brokerage sales. She previously spent more than 26 years at Goldman Sachs, latterly working in prime services and listed derivatives sales and relationship management. Composto has also served as a board member of Women in Financial Markets since January 2026.
David Sellen has joined Citi in an EMEA futures electronic product role, based in London. Sellen previously spent more than five years as director of Sealion Rocks, a consultancy focused on trading and clearing, and also served as a principal advisor to New Zealand’s Financial Markets Authority. Earlier in his career, he held senior electronic trading, futures and clearing roles at Wells Fargo Securities, Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan, Nomura and Barclays Capital.
Andrew Wilkins has joined Société Générale as UK head of communications monitoring and trade surveillance, based in London. Before joining Société Générale, Wilkins founded Clarity Cycle Consulting, following more than five years at RJ O’Brien, where he was senior director and head of risk controls and technology. His career also spans trading and portfolio management roles at UBS O’Connor, Morgan Stanley and Hull Trading Company.
James Wheaton has joined Sucden Financial as deputy head of softs. Wheaton joins from Amius Limited, where he was a derivatives broker. He previously served as assistant vice president of softs at StoneX and has more than ten years of front-office experience in agricultural derivatives, covering cleared and over-the-counter derivatives.
Nick Volbi has joined Susquehanna as head of institutional prediction markets. Volbi spent most of his career at Morgan Stanley, where he was most recently managing director and head of equity index derivatives trading. He then joined BNP Paribas in 2025 as deputy head of index flow derivatives trading before moving to Susquehanna.
IMC has appointed former Cboe Global Markets executive Meaghan Dugan as managing director and US market structure strategy lead. Succeeding Paul Jiganti, Dugan will oversee the firm's engagement with exchanges, regulators, clearing organisations and industry bodies. She brings more than 20 years of experience in listed options, market making and electronic trading and was most recently senior vice president and head of US derivatives at Cboe Global Markets.
Technology Vendors and Law Firms
Broadridge has appointed Theo Golden as head of tokenised product, international, a newly created role based in London. Golden joins from Baillie Gifford, where he was head of digital assets and previously co-managed the firm’s Strategic Bond Fund and worked as a multi-asset investment analyst. Earlier in his career, he worked in journalism at Business Insider, Bloomberg and Acuris.
Connamara Technologies has named Pat Kenny senior advisor for global engagement to help expand strategic relationships and customer development for EP3, its exchange, clearing and market surveillance platform. Kenny brings decades of futures and derivatives experience, including senior client relations leadership at CQG, service as chairman of the Association of Futures Markets, and board roles at FIA Tech and The Small Exchange.
Daniel Davis has been promoted to president of Connamara Technologies. Davis joined the company as head of growth in 2022 and was promoted to chief revenue officer in 2025. He has helped expand the company's EP3 exchange infrastructure platform and strengthen its market presence. In his new role, he will work with co-founders Jim and Maureen Downs and the leadership team to support the company's continued growth. Before joining Connamara Technologies, Davis held development and strategy roles at PIMCO, Dimensional Fund Advisors and WorkTango.
Kevin Webb has joined Solidus Labs as vice president and head of policy. Webb joins the market surveillance technology company after spending the past 18 months on the staff of US Senate Agriculture Committee Chair John Boozman. Solidus Labs, which provides surveillance technology across digital assets and prediction markets, participated in FIA’s Innovators Pavilion in 2019.
Carl Kennedy has joined Dechert as a partner and head of commodities and derivatives in the firm's financial services group, based in New York. Prior to joining Dechert, Kennedy was a partner at Katten. Earlier in his career, he served as senior counsel and policy advisor at the CFTC, where he helped draft rules implementing the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. He also held legal and regulatory roles at JPMorgan and Managed Funds Association.
Danielle Abada has joined Mayer Brown as a partner in its capital markets practice in New York. Abada joins from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, where she served as senior special counsel in the Market Participants Division, following an earlier role as senior counsel to Commissioner Kristin Johnson. Before joining the CFTC, she worked in private practice, advising fintech firms and financial institutions on regulatory, transactional and technology matters.
Digital Assets and Blockchain Technology
Lisa Mantil has joined Polymarket as head of institutional growth, where she will lead the company’s work with investment managers, trading firms, corporates and banks. Mantil joins Polymarket after nearly three decades at Goldman Sachs, where she was named partner in 2018.
William L’Heveder has joined Tokenovate as chief revenue officer. L’Heveder previously spent more than seven years at BMLL, where he was most recently chief growth officer and helped support the company’s commercial growth through to its acquisition in 2025. Earlier in his career, he worked at Boston Consulting Group and as a derivatives trader.
