secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Virtu Financial, Inc. (VIRT)
CIK:        0001592386
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-08-21T20:30:42+00:00
Accession:  0001104659-26-099707
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.10
Item codes: 5.02
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Virtu Financial appoints Barbara Finigan as Class I independent director
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- Barbara Finigan appointed to Board as Class I director, effective August 19, 2026.
- Finigan is independent; recommended by Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.
- She was Chief Legal Officer at Hasbro (Dec 2010-Mar 2019); now CLO at Fuze Health since Aug 2025.
- Board size increased to eleven directors following the appointment.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1592386/000110465926099707/0001104659-26-099707-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1592386/000110465926099707/tm2623727d1_8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-26-099707

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