Digital Currency Project Manager
Alice Algot-Samé is Deputy Director of the Short- and Medium-Term Securities Division at the Banque de France, based in Paris. She is a graduate of INES Expertise.
Advisor, Cross-Border Digital Currency and Payments
Khai Uy Pham is an advisor specializing in cross-border digital currency and payments, leveraging expertise in fintech to enhance global financial transactions and digital payment solutions.
Head of Division - New Technologies and Innovation for Financial Market Infrastructures
Marie-Aline Vives is Head of Division – New Technologies and Innovation for Financial Market Infrastructures at Banque de France, a position she has held since June 2024. Her division focuses on new technologies and innovation as applied to financial market infrastructures, though specific initiatives or products she leads in this capacity are not detailed in available sources. She has contributed publicly to policy discussions on financial infrastructure, including a published piece on the role of SWIFT in the context of sanctions imposed on Russia following the invasion of Ukraine.
Vives has been at Banque de France since March 2018. Prior to her current role, she served as Deputy Head of the Market Infrastructures and Payment Systems Oversight Division from September 2021 to August 2024, and before that as Senior Expert in the Oversight of Financial Market Infrastructures from March 2018 to September 2021. Earlier in her career, she worked in banking supervision at the Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution (ACPR) from February 2014 to March 2018, and prior to that in project finance at Société Générale Corporate and Investment Banking, where she worked on credit risk analysis and structuring financing bids for public sector projects. She holds a degree from Sciences Po Paris and describes her areas of expertise as economics, finance, and European institutions.
Adjoint à la cheffe de service Innovation et infrastructure de marché
Brett Royer, CFA, is Head of Finance for Enterprise Technology at Fidelity Investments, with extensive experience in finance leadership roles within capital markets and digital assets.
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Strategic Partnerships & Private Events
Noé Giglio leads Strategic Partnerships and Private Events at The Big Whale, a market intelligence platform on digital assets founded in 2022 and headquartered in Paris. He is based in London and has been active in the digital assets sector since 2019, building expertise across onchain finance and investment strategies and a network spanning financial institutions, corporates, and digital asset companies across Europe.
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Head of Institutional Research
Max Coniglio is Head of Institutional Research at The Big Whale, an independent market intelligence platform on digital assets founded in 2022 and headquartered in Paris. In this role he sits within the firm's research and analyst team, which produces editorial coverage, briefings, and research serving the platform's institutional client base.
MD, Head of EMEA Fintech at J.P. Morgan
Manuel Costescu is a Managing Director at J.P. Morgan, where he co-heads the EMEA Innovation Economy team and serves as a Global Fintech Champion. In this role he advises the region's fastest-growing fintech, SaaS and e-commerce companies across a range of corporate and investment banking solutions.
Costescu began his career as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company in New York, and earlier worked as a banker at J.P. Morgan covering European public sector clients before returning to the firm. He is a regular speaker at industry events on innovation, fintech and digital finance.
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