Bullish CEO Tom Farley to sit down with Senator Gillibrand on digital asset policy at CoinDesk conference

Tom Farley, the CEO of Bullish and former president of the New York Stock Exchange, will moderate a discussion with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) on digital asset policy at the CoinDesk Policy & Regulation Conference on September 22, 2026, in Washington, D.C. The players and why they matter Farley took over as CEO of Bullish in May 2023, bringing with him a resume that reads like a bridge between old Wall Street and new. He led the NYSE from 2014 to 2018 and was involved in an early investment in Coinbase, the publicly traded crypto exchange. He also sits on the CFTC’s CEO Innovation Council, which represents exchange interests in regulatory conversations. Bullish completed its acquisition of CoinDesk from Digital Currency Group in 2023, making Farley’s company both a crypto exchange operator and the parent of one of the industry’s most prominent media outlets. Gillibrand has positioned herself as one of Congress’s most active legislators on digital assets. She co-introduced the Lummis-Gillibrand Responsible Financial Innovation Act in 2022 alongside Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), a bill that aimed to build a comprehensive regulatory framework for digital assets. The bipart...