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Bullish (NYSE: BLSH) has appointed Stacey Cunningham, former President, New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), as President. The institutionally focused global digital asset platform, which provides market infrastructure and information services, announced the appointment on 9 November 2026.
The appointment comes as Bullish advances its strategy to connect traditional capital markets infrastructure with blockchain technology. Cunningham has spent more than three decades working between issuers and investors, and the company said it will apply that experience and those relationships to its efforts to modernise the infrastructure supporting financial markets.
Tom Farley, Chief Executive Officer, Bullish, who previously served as President of the NYSE, commented on the appointment.
Tom Farley, Chief Executive Officer, Bullish
Tom Farley, Chief Executive Officer, Bullish commented:
“Stacey is one of the most respected leaders in global capital markets, and I’ve seen firsthand the impact of her leadership. She brings the rare combination of deep market structure expertise, operational experience, and relationships with issuers built over decades. As we bring together traditional financial infrastructure and blockchain technology, Stacey will play a central role in building the next generation of services for market participants.”
Cunningham served as President of NYSE Group, where she became the first woman to lead the exchange group. During her tenure she also held senior leadership roles including Chief Operating Officer, overseeing technology modernisation and the integration of multiple exchange acquisitions. Earlier in her career, she held senior roles at Nasdaq.
She serves on the boards of Cloudflare, an internet infrastructure and cybersecurity provider, the New York Stock Exchange, and Georgetown University’s Psaros Center for Financial Markets and Policy. Cunningham has also served as an operating partner at Advent, a global private equity firm, and as an advisor to Uniswap Labs, a digital asset technology provider.
Stacey Cunningham, President, Bullish
Stacey Cunningham, President, Bullish said:
“Public markets depend on trusted infrastructure, but there is an enormous opportunity to make that infrastructure more efficient, connected and accessible. Bullish is bringing together the expertise, technology and relationships needed to deliver meaningful improvements for issuers and shareholders. I’m excited to help build on that foundation, strengthen the services our clients rely on today and create new possibilities for how companies and investors connect in the future.”
In May 2026, Bullish announced its $4.2 billion acquisition of Equiniti, a global transfer agent serving nearly 3,000 issuer clients and more than 20 million shareholders. The planned combination would bring together Equiniti’s shareholder services and registry infrastructure with Bullish’s regulated trading capabilities. Bullish has also received regulatory approval for tokenised securities trading in Gibraltar and has launched trading of its own issuer-sponsored tokenised shares.
Bullish is an institutionally focused global digital asset platform that provides regulated market infrastructure and information services. This includes Bullish Exchange, an institutionally focused digital assets spot and derivatives exchange that integrates a high-performance central limit order book matching engine with automated market making. Bullish Europe is regulated under MiCAR as a crypto asset service provider offering spot trading and custody services for digital assets.
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