ClearToken, the digital financial market infrastructure provider, has appointed Fernando Cerezetti as Chief Risk Officer of its subsidiary ClearToken CCP Limited.
Cerezetti will lead the development and oversight of the CCP’s risk management framework as ClearToken CCP Limited progresses its application with the Bank of England to become an authorised Central Counterparty.
He brings over two decades of specialist experience to the role. Most recently, he served for more than five years as Head of Model Risk Management, Data and Governance at ICE Clear Europe, part of Intercontinental Exchange. Prior to that, he spent three years as a Risk Advisor in the Bank of England’s Risk, Research and CCP Policy Division, and earlier worked as a Quant Associate Director for B3, the Brazilian exchange formerly known as BM & FBOVESPA.
Cerezetti also spent over seven years as Chair of the Risk Committee of the European Association of CCP Clearing Houses (EACH) and as a member of the Consultative Working Group for the ESMA CCP Policy Committee. He holds a PhD in Statistics and is a PhD candidate in Financial Economics at King’s College London. Benjamin Santos-Stephens, CEO of ClearToken, said:
“It is a pleasure to welcome someone of Fernando’s experience and knowledge to ClearToken, to add even further to the team of all-stars we are building here. To attract people of Fernando’s calibre to the company is a great endorsement of our vision to deliver a future-proofed, regulated financial market infrastructure that can deliver on the promises of digital assets and tokenisation, and pave the way for large scale institutional adoption.”
The hire follows a series of senior appointments at ClearToken, including Mark Williamson as Chief Commercial Officer and Chris Smith as Chief Operating Officer.
In Q4 2025, ClearToken secured FCA authorisation for its ClearToken Depository Limited subsidiary, selected Nasdaq as its technology partner, and launched CT Settle, its delivery-versus-payment settlement platform. The firm also recently announced plans to launch three Daml-based platforms on the Canton Network for regulated tokenisation, payments, and settlement.
