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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001062993-21-008780"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HMMR"
cik: "0001539680"
company_name: "HAMMER TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS CORP."
filed_at: "2021-09-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-29T02:37:18.664919+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hammer Fiber Optics appoints Executive Chairman, hires fintech consultant, targets Swiss payment acquisition

## Summary
- Michael P. Cothill appointed Executive Chairman effective Sept 17, 2021; was Non-Executive Chairman since June 2020.
- Kevin Ferguson named Principal Consultant Global Fintech Acquisitions to lead diversification into fintech.
- Ferguson identifies first potential acquisition: a Swiss fintech entity with cross-border payment/remittance platform; under LOI.
- Company plans to finalize definitive agreement imminently; no financial terms or deal value disclosed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001062993-21-008780
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HMMR
- cik: 0001539680
- company_name: HAMMER TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS CORP.
- filed_at: 2021-09-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1539680/000106299321008780/0001062993-21-008780-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1539680/000106299321008780/form8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001062993-21-008780.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Erik B. Levitt resigned as Chief Executive Officer at HAMMER TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS CORP..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: As disclosed in a previous Current Report on Form 8-K the Company's CEO, Erik B. Levitt, resigned his position as CEO of the Company on September 14, 2021.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1539680/000106299321008780/0001062993-21-008780-index.htm
- Executive change
  Michael P. Cothill was appointed as Executive Chairman at HAMMER TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS CORP..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Executive Chairman
  source text: On September 17, 2021 the Board of Directors (the 'Board') of Hammer Fiber Optics Holdings Corp. (the 'Company') approved the appointment of Michael P. Cothill, who currently serves as Chairman of the Board, to the position of Chairman of the Board in the capacity of an executive of the Company ('Executive Chairman').
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1539680/000106299321008780/0001062993-21-008780-index.htm

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