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Bullish appoints Thomas Cowan as Head of Tokenization

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Bullish has appointed Thomas Cowan as its new Head of Tokenization, who joins from Galaxy where he led the institutional tokenization business.

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GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, July 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bullish (NYSE: BLSH) , an institutionally focused global digital asset platform that provides market infrastructure and information services, today announced the appointment of Thomas Cowan as Head of Tokenization . Cowan will lead the company's tokenization strategy, building on the foundation Bullish has assembled through its regulated exchange infrastructure, CoinDesk's market data and indices services, and upon completion of its pending acquisition, Equiniti's global transfer agent and registry capabilities, to establish the company as the market infrastructure for tokenized securities. Cowan joins Bullish from Galaxy, where he led the firm's institutional tokenization business, pioneering the initiative behind Galaxy becoming the first Nasdaq-listed company to tokenize its stock on a major U.S. blockchain in partnership with Superstate. The direct issuance structure without a special purpose vehicle was developed with input from regulators and has become a template for compliant onshore equity tokens. Cowan also led other initiatives at the firm including Galaxy's tokenized liquidity fund partnership with State Street Investment Management, the tokenization of the firm's first collateralized loan obligation, and the founding of Euro stablecoin issuer AllUnity (EURAU), where he served as a board member of the...

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Event
Executive hire

What this signalsA new leader often reviews the tools the team uses.

Person
Thomas CowanHead of Tokenization
Takes effect
Jul 13, 2026
Location
George Town, Cayman Islands

Companies

  • GalaxyRelated companygalaxy.com

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  • Thomas CowanHead of Tokenization · Named in the story

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  • directors
  • general technology

Extraction

Confidence
100%
Detected
Jul 13, 2026
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news
signal_subtype
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