BMLL Appoints Brad Hunt as Board Chairman Following Nordic Capital Acquisition

BMLL, the provider of harmonised historical Level 3, 2, and 1 market data and analytics, has appointed Brad Hunt as Chairman of the Board. Hunt succeeds Lee Hodgkinson, who will remain on the board as an independent Non-Executive Director (NED). Hunt brings 30 years of experience in financial data businesses, having most recently served as CEO of Rimes Technologies following senior roles at Bank of New York Mellon, IHS Markit, and Goldman Sachs International.

The appointment comes alongside the addition of US-based independent NED Spiros Giannaros, currently CEO of Gresham Technologies and formerly CEO of Charles River Development. They join an existing board comprising BMLL executives Paul Humphrey (CEO) and Nigel Medhurst (CFO/COO), alongside representatives from Nordic Capital and Optiver.

These leadership changes follow Nordic Capital’s acquisition of BMLL in October 2025. The revamped board is structured to support BMLL’s global expansion and bolster its product delivery for financial market participants.

Hawk Appoints NICE Actimize Veteran to Lead Revenue Strategy

Anti-financial crime technology provider Hawk, has appointed Eli Chamoun as President and Chief Revenue Officer to lead its revenue strategy as it seeks to expand adoption of its artificial intelligence technology among banks and payment companies.

Chamoun will oversee Hawk’s global revenue strategy and operations, develop its go-to-market team and deepen relationships with banks, payment companies and partners. He previously spent 18 years at NICE Actimize, where he served as Global Vice President and Global Head of Sales.

Hawk is positioning the appointment around the governance and expansion of AI deployments in anti-money laundering (AML), screening and fraud prevention. The company says financial institutions are using machine learning, generative AI and agentic AI to improve crime detection and investigation.

Tobias Schweiger, CEO and Co-Founder of Hawk, said: “AI in anti-financial crime has reached an inflection point. Financial institutions are seeing positive results from AI deployments — these now need to be governed and scaled with confidence, especially as agentic AI capabilities and large language models continue to open fresh possibilities.”

Schweiger cited FinCEN’s proposed rule reforms as an indication that regulators will place greater emphasis on the effectiveness of AI-driven compliance.

Chamoun said the market needs AI-based platforms that can produce demonstrable operational results quickly while providing explainability across sectors and geographies. He also identified accurate detection and efficient investigation as important capabilities.

Hawk’s recent product work includes agentic AI for AML investigations. The company has also reported results from its partnership with Commerzbank, where it said its technology detected more novel money-laundering cases while increasing alert accuracy to reduce false positives.

Gomez Named as New CEO by ISS STOXX

ISS STOXX has named Virginia Gomez as its next chief executive effective on August 3.

Gomez has more than 20 years of leadership experience and served as president of North America at Dun & Bradstreet, executive vice president of product and portfolio management at TransUnion and in leadership positions at LexisNexis and PeopleFluent.

Gomez will replace Gary Retelny and oversee 4,000 professionals across 34 global locations.

Precisely Appoints New Executives

Precisely has appointed Vinesh Vis as chief revenue officer to drive sales execution and customer growth, and Jane Gilson as chief business officer to manage commercial growth frameworks.

Vis joins from Smarsh, where he worked as chief revenue officer and general manager, following revenue leadership roles at Oracle and other private and public technology companies; Gilson previously held executive leadership roles at Microsoft and Google, served as chief executive at CloudSphere and brings more than two decades of technology growth experience.

Both executives will join the Executive Leadership Team, report to chief executive Walid Abu-Hadba and oversee global commercial operations across sales, customer success, channel ecosystems, strategic services, and revenue operations.

Consensys Suspends Metamask Releases Due to Contractor’s North Korea Links

Ethereum specialist Consensys suspended releases of its popular MetaMask wallet earlier this year after determining that a contractor with links to North Korea had access to its code for about a month.

The unnamed contractor, who worked via a third-party service provider, was determined to have made contributions to MetaMask-related code. Consensys – which reported the incident to law enforcement – says an investigation found no theft of assets or data, and no insertion of malicious code.

Bank of America Appoints Sonali Theisen to Head its Digital Assets Platform

Band of America has named Sonali Theisen ?as ?head of its global digital assets platform. Based in New York City, she will combine her new role, which is to “oversee design, development, scaling and governance of the bank’s digital-assets platform,” with her current responsibilities as head ?of ?Global Fixed Income, Currencies, and Commodities E?trading and ?markets strategic investments.

Theisen ?will work alongside London-based digital asset transformation chief Adam Dixon, who oversees “tokenised deposits and stablecoins, digital collateral mobility, and cryptocurrency trading, settlement and custody.

Former Bank of America MD, Andee Schneider Joins Qomply

Regulatory intelligence and reporting specialist Qomply has strengthened its senior leadership team with the appointment of Andee Schneider as Managing Director, North America, adding capital markets sales, execution and client advisory experience as the firm looks to expand its presence across the Americas and APAC.

Schneider brings more than two decades of financial markets experience, including senior roles at Bank of America Securities, UBS Securities and Trading Technologies. She was previously Managing Director and Head of Sales and Execution for the Americas at Bank of America Securities, where she led a team focused on revenue and market share growth across futures, options and over-the-counter clearing.

Her appointment gives Qomply additional senior market-facing expertise at a time when financial institutions are under pressure to manage regulatory change while improving operational efficiency. In her new role, Schneider will advise Qomply on regional expansion, client engagement and the regulatory issues shaping financial institutions’ technology and compliance priorities.

Schneider’s background is closely aligned with consultative sales and regulatory education. Rather than focusing on product-led selling, she has worked with financial institutions on the operational impact of regulatory change and on how firms can prepare ahead of implementation deadlines. She has also been active in industry mentorship, previously serving as Co-Chair of the Women’s Leadership Committee Council at Bank of America.

“We are thrilled to welcome Andee to our team,” said Michelle Zak, Co-founder at Qomply. “Her decades of experience leading technical sales for some of the world’s largest financial institutions makes her an invaluable asset. Andee intimately understands the operational friction our clients face, and her global perspective will play a pivotal role as we continue to grow and innovate in the RegTech space.”

Schneider said: “I’m incredibly excited to be joining Qomply. There has been a definitive shift in focus within financial institutions; it is no longer just about returns, but also about operational excellence. Qomply’s leading tech coupled with its deep industry expertise present a unique opportunity to act as a helping hand for clients, staying ahead of regulator expectations. I look forward to working with the team to build on this momentum and help our clients future-proof their operations.”

Gresham Names Spiros Giannaros to Replace Mark Hepsworth as CEO

Gresham has appointed Spiros Giannaros as chief executive to succeed Mark Hepsworth at the enterprise data automation company for financial services firms.

Giannaros previously spent more than 25 years in capital markets software, serving as chief executive at Charles River Development and partner at Markit, where he led the business that Gresham acquired in 2026.

The role will involve leading the company through its next phase of growth following the recent acquisition of S&P Global’s enterprise data management business.

Giannaros said the company will leverage artificial intelligence within its products to deliver data automation capabilities for critical investment and regulatory operations.

Broadridge Taps Mark Nichols as Co-President of Digital Assets

Broadridge Financial Solutions has recruited Mark Nichols to be Co-President of its Digital Assets business unit. Nichols, who joints from EY where he was a Partner, will lead Broadridge’s strategy, product development, and execution in the tokenisation and digital asset arena. He will work alongside Co-President German Soto, who adds the Co-President title to his Chief Product Officer role.

Broadridge enables on-chain proxy voting and governance, provides digital asset infrastructure including post trade, wallets and custody, and supports the scaling of digital asset capabilities across multiple asset classes. Additionally, Broadridge’s Distributed Ledger Repo (DLR) solution is the world’s largest institutional platform for settling tokenised real assets, tokenising more than $365 billion per day.

Ethereum Foundation Sheds Staff, Researchers Depart to Launch Ethlab

The Ethereum Foundation is cutting approximately 20% of its staff in a reorganisation that will reduce its operating budget by 40% and slow a drain on its treasury funds. The resulting organization will focus on enterprise engagement, financial infrastructure and policy coordination, as well as continuing work on censorship resistance and self-sovereign architecture.

Meanwhile, five key researchers left the foundation to launch Ethlabs, a non-profit R&D lab. The researchers – Ansgar Dietrichs, Barnabé Monnot, Caspar Schwarz-Schilling, Josh Rudolf and Julian Ma – will focus on consensus, cryptography and execution-layer research, and so will overlap with continuing research at the foundation. Initial backing for Ethlabs has been provided by Bitmine, Sharplink and Consensys founder Joe Lubin.