Bullish hires ex-NYSE chief Cunningham to lead tokenization push

The first woman to lead the New York Stock Exchange joins a crypto exchange run by another former NYSE president Stacey Cunningham, who ran the New York Stock Exchange from May 2018 to January 2022, is joining Bullish as president. If you’re keeping score, that means a regulated digital asset exchange now has two former NYSE presidents in its top ranks. The hire matters because of timing. Bullish is pushing into derivatives and tokenization, two areas where institutional clients care about who is minding the store. Cunningham was the 67th president of the NYSE . She was also the first woman to hold that role in the exchange’s history. Her path to the top was not a parachute drop.

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