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McDermott Will & Emery

McDermott Will & Emery is a diversified business practice law firm that has offices worldwide. The firm's Energy and Derivatives Markets (EDM) Practice Group regularly represents clients in investigations conducted by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the Federal Trade Commission. Many members of the firm's EDM Practice Group worked for these agencies prior to joining McDermott.
Among its other many areas of focus, the firm represents clients, in the proprietary and nonprofit business sectors, as well as on a pro bono basis, that are involved in environmentally forward ventures. The firm says it aims to increase sponsorship of nonprofit organizations whose missions are environmental protection.
The firm's hedge funds practice is a multi-disciplinary team providing comprehensive advice to start-up and established hedge fund managers, advisors and financial institutions that engage in business with hedge funds.
== Key People ==
*Partner, Gregory G. Mocek
*Jr. Partner, Paul J. Pantano
*Partner, Anthony M. Mansfield
*Partner, Jana V.T. Baldwin
*Partner, Athena Y. Velie
*Partner, Gregory K. Lawrence
*Partner, Michael A. Yuffee
*Partner, Joseph B. Williams
*Partner, Terence T. Healey
*Energy & Derivatives Markets Analyst, Elizabeth Hastings
== News ==
*McDermott Will & Emery represented Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc. with respect to its equity investment in connection with the $45 billion leveraged buyout acquisition of TXU Corp., the Texas energy company. The transaction closed on Oct. 10, 2007, and represented the largest leveraged buyout in history to date.
*In April of 2007, McDermott Will & Emery advised BNP Paribas in connection with its recent €558.6 million CDO of leveraged loans. The deal introduced to the CDO market the use of a variable hedging option strategy to manage the risk arising from investment in a wide range of currencies. The transaction was arranged by BNP Paribas with Pemba Credit Advisers, a subsidiary of Man Group Plc.
== References ==
Category:Law Firms
Category:McDermott Will & Emery
McGladrey & Pullen, LLP

Also See: RSM US LLP
McGladrey & Pullen, LLP was a national CPA firm that served mainly midsized companies from approximately 100 offices across the United States.
In June of 2010, McGladrey & Pullen, LLP merged with RSM McGladrey to form what would become McGladrey LLP in 2011 when the firm was re-branded. In 2015 the firm was renamed RSM US LLP.
== History ==
== Products and Services ==
Areas of expertise include:
*Accounting
*Audit
*Attest
*International
*Public Companies
*Review/Compilation
*Construction/Real Estate
*Financial Services
*Government Entities
*Health Care
*Manufacturing/Wholesale Distribution
*Not-for-Profit
 
== News ==
*In April of 2013, McGladrey LLP was ranked seventh on Vault's annual Accounting 50 list. 
*In March of 2008, McGladrey & Pullen and an auditor on its staff were sued for $550 million by the Chapter 11 trustee for bankrupt asset-management firm Sentinel Management Group, according to a complaint filed in bankruptcy court in Chicago.
*In October of 2001, RSM McGladrey Inc. announced it had acquired Messina Ceci Archer & Co.. McGladrey & Pullen LLP would take over the firm's audit and financial review services.
*Also in 2001, RSM McGladrey, Inc. announced it had acquired the non-attest assets of the Dallas accounting firm of Fisk & Robinson, PC.
== References ==
Category:Accounting‏‎
Category:McGladrey
Category:Auditors
McGonigle, P.C.

McGonigle, formerly Murphy & McGonigle, is a law firm with offices in New York, NY, Washington D.C. and Richmond, Virginia. The firm renamed itself McGonigle, P.C. in January 2022.
== Background ==
Murphy & McGonigle was founded in 2010. In 2012, the firm was selected by U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers as a National Tier 1 Law Firm. They have been similarly honored every year since, making them the youngest firm in the category of Securities Regulation, Securities Litigation, and Corporate Law to be honored in such a way; the next-youngest firm is older by 36 years.
== Overview ==
McGonigle participates in industry fintech working groups, such as the Hyperledger Project, an international open source collaborative effort created to advance blockchain technologies. It was the first law firm to partner with the Hyperledger Project, in November 2016. 
The firm operates a website called "Blockchain Law Center," which is dedicated exclusively to the legal and regulatory developments in blockchain technology. The site was launched in March 2018. 
In summer 2019, Murphy and McGonigle launched Blockchain Litigation Database (BLD), which provides a searchable database focused on blockchain-related litigation. The earliest case in the database is the money-laundering case filed against the "bitcoin maven, Theresa Tetley. The BLD also includes the New York case against Bitfinex. BLD data include total cases, annual trends, whether a case is criminal or civil, whether the case involves the SEC or CFTC, and the ability to search terms.
In June 2021, the firm announced the election of Elizabeth Lan Davis as its chair and president. Davis succeeded firm co-founder James Murphy, who served in those roles since the firm began in 2010. Davis' election was conducted by a shareholder vote on June 25. Her term will begin on September 1, 2021. 
== References ==	
Category: Regulation
Category: distributed ledgers
Category: HyperLedger Project
Category: cryptocurrencies
Category: CryptoMarketsWiki
McGraw Hill Financial

McGraw Hill Financial provides education, financial services, investment services and ratings through its various divisions, including Standard & Poor's ratings service, McGraw Hill Education, publications such as J.D. Power & Associates and Platts, data and research provider S&P Capital IQ, and financial index company S&P Dow Jones Indices, a joint venture with exchange CME Group.
In February of 2016, the company said it would change its name to S&P Global Inc. later that year.
== History ==
Founder James H. McGraw, a teacher in upstate New York, began working in publishing in 1884, and purchased the American Journal of Railway Appliances in 1888. At the same time, co-founder John A. Hill was working as an editor at Locomotive Engineer. Over the next fifteen years, the two men pursued their separate careers specializing in technical and trade publications. In 1899, McGraw incorporated his publications under the heading of "The McGraw Publishing Company;" in 1902, John Hill followed with "The Hill Publishing Company." 
The two men had crossed paths over the years and their mutual interest in science and technology led to an alliance in 1909. The book departments of the two publishing companies merged to form the McGraw-Hill Book Company. John Hill took the office of President; James McGraw became the company's Vice-President. The rest of the functions of the McGraw and Hill companies continued their separate existence, buying and expanding on numerous publications.
After the sudden death of John A. Hill in 1916, James McGraw taking over as Book Company President. In 1917, the remaining parts of the companies merged to form the McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, Inc. and moved into the Hill Building on Tenth Avenue in New York City. Some of the publications that had duplicated each other merged, for example, Hill's Engineering News and McGraw's Engineering Record became McGraw-Hill's Engineering News-Record.
McGraw Hill Financial announced in July of 2015 that it had agreed to acquire SNL Financial for approximately $2.225 billion in cash.
== Products and Services ==
The company's brands include Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, S&P Capital IQ, S&P Dow Jones Indices, Platts, CRISIL, and J.D. Power.
== Key People ==
*Harold McGraw III, Chairman
*Douglas Peterson, President and CEO
*Jack Callahan, Chief Financial Officer.
== References ==
Category:Publishers
Meaghan A. Mullins

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Meaghan A. Mullins is managing director electronic services at Knight Capital Americas, L.P. In her role at Knight, she is responsible for implementation and support of Knight's global voice and electronic access products, including; Knight Direct, Knight Link and Knight Match.
== Background ==
Previous to joining Knight, Mullins was with Citigroup in 2005 for less than a year. She had been with Knight before Citigroup from 2000 to 2005.
She was a summer analyst with Merrill Lynch in 1998, working on client connectivity.
== Education ==
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Knight
Category:Knight
Meaghan Dugan

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Meaghan Dugan is a New York-based exchange, brokerage and trading executive who was appointed head of U.S. options at Cboe Global Markets in February 2025. 
Dugan was previously head of options for the New York Stock Exchange. She was appointed to that role in September of 2022. 
She joined the NYSE as head of product and competitive strategy for NYSE Options in 2019. In that role, she led a customer-centric product strategy, overseeing the implementation of new features and functions for NYSE Options.
Before that, Dugan was head of derivatives product management for the U.S. options and global futures businesses for Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where she spent 11 years.
She was appointed to the board of directors of the OCC in August of 2023.
== Background ==
Earlier, Dugan was a vice president at Morgan Stanley in roles across automated options market making, as a lead market maker/specialist, and within the electronic trading team developing new products and institutional order flow. Before that, she was a market maker on ARCA for Spear Leeds & Kellogg.
She started in the industry at the Pacific Stock Exchange.
== Path to Electronic Trading video ==
MEAGHAN DUGAN COOKS UP A STELLAR PATH TO ELECTRONIC TRADING
NYSE executive Meaghan Dugan always worked in kitchens as a youth and had dreams of becoming a famous chef. She even earned a degree in culinary science. However, instead of donning a poofy cap for a career as a chef, she pursued a career in the markets at the Pacific Stock Exchange and wore a colorful jacket.
== Education ==
== References ==	
Category:Morgan Stanley - Former Employees
Category:Merrill Lynch - Former Employees
Category:Pacific Stock Exchange - Former Members
Category:OCC Board of Directors Members
Medici Bank

Medici Bank is a Puerto Rico supervised commercial bank that was first scheduled to launch in Q4 2019 to focus on providing services to the digital asset and DeFi communities. As of July 12, 2021, however, the bank's web site was live but there was no information readily available from outside sources indicating that the bank was operating. 
The bank is based in Puerto Rico, and was founded by Prince Lorenzo de' Medici, a descendent of the famous Italian merchant family of the same name.
== Background ==
Medici Bank strongly emphasizes digital financial services, including those involving cryptocurrency and distributed ledger technology. The company's web site states that part of its philosophy is, "If we cannot do it digitally, we just won't do it." The bank would offer its services to customers seeking both traditional and cryptocurrency services. Bank's CEO Ed Boyle said in 2019 that customers would be required to comply with due diligence and KYC processes. Boyle also said the bank would not necessarily apply for FDIC protection; he said the decision would depend on how its eventual launch goes. 
=== Bank blockchain ===
The bank planned to go into closed beta (a test run for a small, specific group of people) in October 2019. Running up to then, de' Medici told Coindesk, that the bank is working with unnamed blockchain development companies to enable Medici Bank's API to analyze blockchain data for KYC and AML processes. The bank is also reportedly working with a number of banks and financial institutions to create a global, blockchain-based banking network in which each bank would serve as a node for the network.
The bank was not totally to rely on a blockchain network; it was also to use SWIFT and automated clearing house technology to offer services to its customers.
== Key People ==
*Prince Lorenzo de’ Medici - Founder
*Ed Boyle - Co-founder, CEO
==References==
Category: blockchain
Category: fintech
Category: banks
Category: cryptocurrency
Category: digital assets
Category: CryptoMarketsWiki
Medici Ventures

Medici Ventures, Inc. was established as a fully-owned subsidiary of Overstock.com, the online retailer that launched distributed ledger technology-based trading platform tZERO in 2016. It originally owned a majority share of tZero. Medici Ventures focuses on investments in banking, capital markets, and financial technology companies as well as identity, land and voting enterprises.
==Overview==
On June 5, 2015, Overstock.com announced it would offer the “world's first cryptosecurity,” on its new t0 platform. The name t0 comes from the Wall Street jargon for bond settlements, which typically take three days (“t + 3”) to finalize. According to company statements, bond trades on t0 settle the same day.
In 2017 Patrick M. Byrne, CEO of Overstock.com, announced a joint venture between Medici Ventures and Hernando de Soto, a notable economist to begin a new blockchain venture, causing a sharp spike in Overstock.com's stock value (OSTK). This venture ended up being called tZERO. Later that year, he announced development of tZERO's DLR, a financial technology that would be developed specifically to "curb naked short sales." Byrne announced in late 2017 that he plans on stepping away from his role at Overstock.com, selling or restructuring the company so that he could focus on developing tZERO full-time.
In January 2018 Medici Ventures announced that Byrne and economist Hernando de Soto joined Medici Ventures Board of Directors. Medici Ventures had earlier announced an investment in DeSoto Inc., which implements blockchain technology in a global property registry system meant to free up otherwise dead capital in large parts of the developing world. 
In January 2019 Joel Weight, Medici's former CTO, became the company's COO. A week later, Medici's blockchain subsidiary, tZERO, launched. 
== Spinout from Overstock ==
On January 25, 2021 Overstock released a statement saying that it was converting its 100% ownership of Medici Ventures, Inc. into a limited partnership with a Pelion Venture Partners fund as its general partner. Both Medici Ventures and Overstock retain minority interests in tZero. According to the agreement, profits will accrue first to Overstock and, over an eight year period, Overstock's investment in the fund will be worked out of Medici.
== References ==
Category: digital assets
Category: fintech
Category: venture capital
Category: CryptoMarketsWiki
Megain Widjaja

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Megain Widjaja is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Indonesia Commodities & Derivatives Exchange (ICDX). He is focused on establishing relationships with regulators, international exchanges and industry participants.
== Background ==
Previously, Widjaja worked at the Singapore-based Global Treasury Solutions team at Wachovia Bank. In 2006
Widjaja was employed at Seattle-based wealth management firm R. A. Bench Wealth Management, where he handled corporate and individual investment banking needs. 
He returned to Jakarta and in 2009 and founded Focus Media Indonesia before joining the Indonesian Commodities & Derivatives Exchange. 
== Education ==
Widjaja graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Finance and Accounting from Seattle University.
== References ==
Megan Cohen

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Megan M. Cohen is a Chicago-based lawyer and clearing executive who serves as the general counsel and corporate secretary of the OCC, the world’s largest equity derivatives clearing organization. She was promoted to the position in March of 2023 after having served as first vice president, associate general counsel and corporate secretary. She is a member of the OCC's management committee.
Cohen leads the OCC's corporate governance functions, advises the OCC's board and management on regulatory issues and oversees the regulatory rule filing process with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve.
== Background ==
Since Cohen joined the OCC in June 2014, she has served in several roles of increasing responsibility within the organization. She was promoted to first vice president, associate general counsel and corporate secretary in September 2017, having previously been vice president and associate general counsel for the company.
Cohen also is an executive sponsor of the OCC Women’s Leadership Network.
She previously was an attorney at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (Cboe), where she also focused on regulatory matters. Before joining Cboe, she was an attorney with the National Stock Exchange and she also worked at the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office-Criminal Appeals and Felony Trial Division.
== Education ==
Cohen holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in english from the University of Illinois and a Juris Doctor degree from the Loyola University School of Law.
== References ==	
Category:Cboe - Former Employees
Category:Lawyers
Category:National Stock Exchange - Former Employees
Megan McKeever Costello

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Megan McKeever Costello is the president of buy-side operations for Fidessa. Costello was appointed to the position on Aug. 1, 2012. As president, she oversees account management, consulting and production services for the firm's subsidiary, LatentZero. Prior to working at Fidessa, Costello was an executive director at Omgeo.
== Background ==
Prior to becoming president of buy-side operations, Costello served in Fidessa's buy-side client services beginning in 2006. She came to Fidessa after serving as an executive director of global consulting for Omgeo from 2003-2006. Costello has also held executive positions at Reuters Consulting. 
== Education ==
Costello received a B.A. in Journalism from Saint Michael's College in 1989. 
== References ==	
Category:Fidessa
Megan Morgan

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Megan Morgan is a Chicago-based exchange executive who currently serves as a senior vice president, head of equity and index sales - Americas for Eurex. In 2022, she joined Belvedere Trading Company in an investments and market structure position after working with Eurex as global head of business development equity and index business.
She has been Chicago chapter leader for 85 Broads, now Ellevate Network.
== Background ==
Morgan was previously head of VSTOXX global sales for Eurex. She was responsible for global volume development in VSTOXX futures and options.
Among her responsibilities is being Initiative Captain for VSTOXX futures and options. And she added variance swap futures in 2016, to cover the entire volatility suite at Eurex.
Since December 2014, I have been the Initiative Captain for VSTOXX futures and options. This year, I added Variance Swap futures to my area of responsibility to cover our entire volatility suite.
Before joining Eurex, Morgan was a business development director for the European Climate Exchange for North America. She has also been in business development with the Chicago Climate Exchange.
She was an associate with Lehman Brothers and a securities trader with Knight Capital.
She began after school as a clerk at the CME, then later traded options at the CBOE before going to business school at Chicago Booth. She also did a 3-month stint with the CME Group in product development.
She created a charity called "One Refugee Child" to help give out strollers to refugees on their migration.
== Education ==
She holds a bachelor of science degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in business administration and general management. She also holds a masters of business administration degree from the University of Chicago - Booth School of Business in analytical finance and entrepreneurism.
== References ==	
Category:European Climate Exchange - Former Employees
Category:Chicago Climate Exchange - Former Employees
Category:Lehman Brothers - Former Employees
Category:Knight Capital - Former Employees
Mehmet Yanilmaz

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Mehmet Yanilmaz is a partner at Myra Trading LLC and president at Navus, Inc. He is also the co-founder of Numeraire Financial, Inc.& Numeraire Technology, which offer banks, clearing businesses, and investment funds services in financial & risk analytics. At Myra, he devises the firm’s proprietary algorithmic trading strategies and related technology infrastructure. At Navus, Yanilmaz oversees the firm’s financial asset optimization work for leading clients.
Global clients he has worked with include AT&T, Baxter Healthcare, Caterpillar, Ford Motor Company, Intel, Motorola, and Navistar International.
== Background ==
Before co-founding Numéraire Financial, Yanilmaz had 15 years of financial advising and management experience. 
== Education ==
He received an M.S. in Computer Engineering and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University.
== References ==
Mehtap Dinc

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Mehtap Dinc is head of derivatives product research and development at Deutsche Boerse and a member of the management board at Eurex Deutschland.
She took on the top product development role in March 2012 and the board position in November 2013.
 
== Background ==
Dinc joined Eurex in 1999 as a product manager and since has served in a number of different roles at the exchange including product strategy, product development and project management. In 2013, she succeeded Peter Reitz on the Eurex management board, responsible for product research and development. 
Prior to joining Eurex, she had more than 20 years in the banking sector.
== Education ==
== References ==	
Category:Deutsche Boerse
Category:Eurex
Mel Gunewardena

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Mel Gunewardena is an financial regulatory official and former investment banking executive. He currently serves as the senior advisor at the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to the CEO. Previously he served as the chief international affairs oficer at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
==Background==
=== CFTC ===
Gunewardena joined the CFTC in February 2019 as the deputy director of the Market Intelligence Branch (MIB) and chief market intelligence officer. In this role, he was responsible for analyzing data and information from multiple sources to evaluate current derivatives market conditions and identify emerging market dynamics, developments, and trends.
=== Private Sector ===
Prior to joining the CFTC, Gunewardena had an extensive career in investment banking. He held senior positions at several major financial institutions:
* Managing Director at Goldman Sachs
* Senior Managing Director at Deutsche Bank AG
* Senior Managing Director at State Street Bank's Global Markets Division
He joined Deutsche Bank in 2006 as global head of fixed income prime brokerage, offering hedge fund clients access to Deutsche Bank's fixed income products. 
During his time in the private sector, Gunewardena gained significant international experience, working in Hong Kong and London, in addition to New York and Boston. He led various local emerging markets business initiatives in foreign exchange, derivatives, futures, and fixed income securities in Latin American markets, Asian markets, and Eastern Europe.
=== Industry Involvement ===
Gunewardena has been actively involved in various industry organizations. He served as a board member of CLS Bank Holdings, CLS Services Limited, and Markit Partners.
== Education ==
Gunewardena received his bachelor's degree in financial economics from Birkbeck, University of London, studying from 1989 to 1993.
== References ==	
Category:Regulatory Officials
Category:U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Category:CFTC - Former Employees
Category:MarketsWiki Page of the Day
Category:Deutsche Bank AG
Category:Deutsche Bank AG - Former Employees
Category:State Street
Category:State Street - Former Employees
Category:Goldman Sachs
Category:Goldman Sachs - Former Employees
Category:UK Financial Conduct Authority