Accenture Taps Bob Zeglarski as Principal Director – Digital Assets

Consulting firm Accenture has recruited Bob Zeglarski as Principal Director – Digital Assets. He was most recently Associate General Counsel and Executive Director for Digital Assets at the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. (DTCC). In his new role, Zeglarski will help to guide institutions “through complex regulatory landscapes while designing and implementing scalable, future-proof digital asset and tokenisation strategies.”

Former SEC Commissioner Roisman Joins Fireblocks

Blockchain infrastructure provider Fireblocks has appointed former Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) Commissioner Elad Roisman as its new Chief Regulatory and Policy Officer and General Counsel, Regulatory.

In this Washington, D.C.-based role, Roisman will oversee the company’s global regulatory strategy and lead policy engagement with lawmakers. His appointment comes as Fireblocks expands its services past digital asset custody into tokenisation, payments, stablecoins and trading infrastructure for traditional finance and FinTech corporations alike.

Between his time at the SEC and joining Fireblocks, Roisman was a Partner at the law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP.

Jason Rozovsky Expands Clifford Chance’s Digital Assets Team

Global law firm Clifford Chance has expanded its US digital assets and private capital team with the appointment of Jason Rozovsky as counsel to its Funds & Asset Management group in New York.

Rozovsky brings more than a decade of experience in the enterprise blockchain and digital assets sectors, where he has provided strategic transactional, product and regulatory counsel. He previously worked at Interop Labs, Accenture and R3.

Coinbase Appoints Builder Witoff as CTO

Digital asset platform provider Coinbase has a new CTO in Rob Witoff, a veteran technology builder who originally joined the company in 2014 and then rejoined in 2024. Witoff says that in 2009 he got “hooked on Bitcoin empowering builders with programmable money” and that as CTO his goal is to make Coinbase “the best place in the world to build.”

During his first stint at Coinbase, Witoff held roles related to infrastructure and security. He left Coinbase in 2017 and later co-founded a startup called Unit 410, which focused on crypto cold storage and staking. Unit 410 was acquired by Coinbase in 2024 and Witoff rejoined the company as Head of Platform.

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.