Malta Digital Exchange (MDX) has made two senior appointments to add further bench strength to its management team. Nick Bennett joins as chief operating officer and Vincent Pellizzari becomes head of trading.

Bennett is a seasoned international financial services expert with a proven skill-set in negotiation, trading, treasury, structured finance and crypto assets. He is a current board member of the Financial Market Association Malta and a member of MARM (Malta Association of Risk Management). Bennett was most recently managing director and chief trading officer for four years at Malta-based FX broker, having previously spent 13 years as a money market broker in Switzerland for Finarbit AG.

Mr Pellizzari has been in financial services for more than 10 years. Prior to joining MDX, he spent five years in equity and FX trading at Malta-based financial entities on the buy side. He started trading cryptocurrencies in the middle of 2017 and is now fully focused on this new digital asset class in which he is a firm believer.

According to MDX CEO Johan Ditz Lemche, the new hires add further bench strength to MDX’s management team. He commented: “Nick and Vincent are pivotal additions to the MDX team as we gear up for the launch of our VFA exchange and multilateral trading facility. They have a proven track record in both international and Maltese financial services and are committed to MDX’s vision of building the world’s premier security token and Virtual Financial Asset exchanges here in Malta.”

MDX recently moved its operations to the Malta Stock Exchange (MSE) premises. The company facilitates regulated trading of virtual financial assets under the definitions of Malta’s VFA Act and is in the process of obtaining a securities licence to launch its multilateral trading facility which will introduce a secondary market for the trading of digital securities.

To find out more about the Malta Digital Exchange, visit https://maltadx.com/.