Dubai, United Arab Emirates — Tag Markets, an online trading services provider, has appointed Craig Lund as Chief Executive Officer, the company announced on September 10, 2026. Lund will lead the company's executive team and oversee its next phase of development, working alongside the firm's founders and existing stakeholders.

The appointment brings a veteran of regulated digital-asset and brokerage businesses to a firm shifting its focus from growth alone to the foundations that sustain it. The move pairs that shift with a leader whose career has centered on the licensing, operations, and governance side of regulated finance — the disciplines that underpin how a brokerage runs day to day.

More Than Fifteen Years in Regulated Finance

Lund brings more than fifteen years of experience across financial services, regulated digital assets, operations, and governance, with senior leadership roles at Merrill Lynch, M2, MidChains, BitOasis, and Property Finder. He has helped take multiple regulated financial businesses from formation through licensing in several jurisdictions, has led teams numbering in the hundreds, and has worked within organizations responsible for several billion dollars in trading volume. His experience spans risk, regulatory engagement, cross-border settlement, product infrastructure, and the building of executive teams.

At BitOasis, Lund was part of the leadership team that scaled the business many times over and contributed to securing one of the first in-principle approvals granted by Abu Dhabi Global Market to a digital asset exchange and custodian. At MidChains, he helped build an over-the-counter desk that reached multi-billion-dollar volume within its first year. At M2, he led the group operational structure that took a globally regulated exchange and custody platform from a standstill to launch within months, under multiple global regulated frameworks.

Focus on Operating Discipline and Client Experience

The appointment comes as Tag Markets turns its attention to the part of a brokerage that clients experience most directly. Spreads and platforms can be compared in an afternoon, but a client's view of a firm is formed by how quickly a withdrawal is processed and how promptly a support question is answered. Lund's brief places those measures at the center of the firm's priorities and treats them as standards to be defined, measured, and continuously improved.

"A broker earns trust in the moments a client feels, not in the ones it advertises," Lund said. "The next chapter for Tag Markets is defined less by how fast it grows than by how well it runs. My focus is on the operating discipline, the governance and the client experience that let a firm grow across markets without losing the confidence of the people it serves."

Three priorities define the agenda under the new CEO. The first is operating discipline: clear operating standards and escalation thresholds across the business, so that decisions are taken at the right level and remain visible after the fact. The second is the resilience of execution, from order routing and pricing through to the controls that govern how changes reach live trading environments. The third is client service treated as management information, with feedback recorded, measured, and reviewed so that patterns are identified early and acted upon. How those standards are written down, measured, and reflected in the benchmarks clients feel directly — withdrawal turnaround and support response among them — is the concrete detail to watch as the agenda takes hold.

As Tag Markets grows across markets, the demands on its internal systems, governance, and regulatory engagement grow with it. Lund's background at the intersection of regulated finance, operational scale, and technology reflects the capabilities that matter most at that stage, the company said.

About Tag Markets

Tag Markets is an online trading services provider offering access to foreign exchange, commodities, indices, and other markets through leading trading platforms. Tag Markets is the trading name of T.M. Financials Ltd, incorporated in Mauritius (Company No. C185265) and regulated by the Financial Services Commission of Mauritius as an Investment Dealer (License No. GB21026474). Further information is available at tagmarkets.com.

Media contact: Craig Lund, Tag Markets — Communications@tagmarkets.com