---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-123670"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MKTX"
cik: "0001278021"
company_name: "MARKETAXESS HOLDINGS INC"
filed_at: "2025-05-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T22:14:44.290755+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# MarketAxess appoints Dean Berry as Group COO and CEO of EMEA & APAC

## Summary
- Dean Berry, formerly LSEG Group Head of Workflows, to join in Q4 2025.
- He will oversee global operations, risk, product, tech, and EMEA/APAC businesses.
- Base salary GBP £560k; target cash incentive GBP £840k; equity target GBP £1.8M.
- Receives GBP £500k cash lost-opportunity award and GBP £1.563M equity lost-opportunity award.
- Also receives GBP £500k cash make-whole and GBP £3.437M equity make-whole for forfeited unvested equity.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-123670
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MKTX
- cik: 0001278021
- company_name: MARKETAXESS HOLDINGS INC
- filed_at: 2025-05-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1278021/000119312525123670/0001193125-25-123670-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1278021/000119312525123670/d942871d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-123670
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-123670.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-123670.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Dean Berry was appointed as Group Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer, EMEA & APAC at MARKETAXESS HOLDINGS INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Group Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer, EMEA & APAC
  source text: On May 21, 2025, MarketAxess Holdings Inc. (the “Company”) announced that it had appointed Dean Berry as its Group Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer, EMEA & APAC, effective as of his start date.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1278021/000119312525123670/0001193125-25-123670-index.htm

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