secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     MARKETAXESS HOLDINGS INC (MKTX)
CIK:        0001278021
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-01-26T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001193125-26-021629
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.30
Item codes: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

MarketAxess elects Douglas Cifu and Kenneth Schiciano to Board, effective March 1, 2026
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- Douglas A. Cifu, co-founder and former CEO of Virtu Financial, and Kenneth T. Schiciano, Senior Advisor at TA Associates, elected to Board.
- Cifu served as Virtu CEO from 2013 to July 2025; Schiciano has over 30 years of private equity experience at TA Associates.
- Board determined both directors are independent under NASDAQ rules; committee assignments to be announced later.
- Cifu and Schiciano will receive standard non-employee director compensation as described in the 2025 proxy statement.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1278021/000119312526021629/0001193125-26-021629-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1278021/000119312526021629/mktx-20260122.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-26-021629

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