"Don't let extremists hijack crypto's future"

Marieke Flament is Co-Founder of Currency of Power, an advisory firm and newsletter co-founded with Nicolas Colin, former French Treasury official. The project tracks the intersection of monetary policy, geopolitics, stablecoins, and digital assets, delivering analysis for executives navigating the evolving global financial order. Flament describes the current moment as an "unspoken Bretton Woods Moment."

Alongside Currency of Power, Flament serves as Independent Board Director at Qivalis, a euro-denominated stablecoin initiative governed by a consortium of eleven major European banks including BNP Paribas, ING, UniCredit, and SEB. She also serves as a Non-Executive Director at IG Group, a FTSE 250 company listed on the London Stock Exchange, a position she has held since July 2024. She is a Senior Strategic Advisor at Gold Token SA, an MKS PAMP company focused on gold stablecoins, and an investor in Project Europe. Her earlier executive roles include CEO of NEAR Foundation, the Swiss non-profit overseeing the NEAR blockchain, where she was appointed effective January 2022; CEO of Mettle by NatWest, an SME banking application she launched and scaled from 50 to 250 employees; and Managing Director of Europe at Circle, where she built a user base from zero to two million users and contributed to the launch of USDC. Prior to those roles she held positions at Hotels.com, where she ran the Europe, Middle East and Africa division, as well as at Boston Consulting Group and LVMH. She trained as a computer engineer and holds a degree from London Business School.