# Michelle Neal

> Michelle Neal is Group Chief Executive Officer of Fnality International, the London-based fintech running the first regulated DLT-based wholesale payment system. She joined Fnality in early 2025 after leading the Markets Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and previously ran BNY Mellon's global markets business as its CEO. Her mandate: extend Fnality's central-bank-backed settlement rails from sterling into dollar and euro, and turn a working pilot into the plumbing of 24/7 institutional finance.

- **Role:** Group Chief Executive Officer at Fnality International
- **Organizations:** Fnality International, Federal Reserve Bank of New York (former), RBC Capital Markets (former), BNY Mellon (former), Deutsche Bank (former), Nomura (former), Royal Bank of Scotland (former)
- **Education:** BSBA in Finance, cum laude, Suffolk University, Sawyer School of Management
- **Known for:** Oversaw open market operations, foreign exchange, and implementation of U.S. monetary policy as Head of the Markets Group at the New York Fed, Served as CEO of BNY Mellon's global Markets business, running FX, Fixed Income, Equities, Securities Finance, Collateral Management and Liquidity Services, Joined BNY Mellon's Executive Committee in 2017

## Career timeline

- **2015** — Named President of Markets at BNY Mellon
- **2017** — Named CEO of BNY Markets, joins BNY Mellon Executive Committee
- **2019** — Joins RBC Capital Markets from BNY Mellon
- **2022** — Appointed Head of the Markets Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; joins bank's Executive Committee
- **2024** — Announced as incoming Group CEO of Fnality International, succeeding founding CEO Rhomaios Ram
- **2025** — Formally takes up role of Group CEO at Fnality International

## Achievements

- Oversaw open market operations, foreign exchange, and implementation of U.S. monetary policy as Head of the Markets Group at the New York Fed
- Served as CEO of BNY Mellon's global Markets business, running FX, Fixed Income, Equities, Securities Finance, Collateral Management and Liquidity Services
- Joined BNY Mellon's Executive Committee in 2017
- Named to lead Fnality after its late-2023 launch of the world's first regulated DLT-based wholesale payment system
- Non-executive board roles at market infrastructure firms
- Graduated cum laude from Suffolk University's Sawyer School of Management

## Latest updates

- **2024-12** — Announced as incoming Group CEO of Fnality International
- **2025-03** — Formally featured on Fnality's team page as Group CEO
- **2025-09** — Fnality closes latest Series C funding round

## Links

- Website: https://fnality.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-neal-051a80/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/fnality

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Last updated: 2026-07-09