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Grégory Raymond

Grégory Raymond

Head of Research

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Grégory Raymond is Head of Research and co-founder of The Big Whale. A specialist at the intersection of traditional finance and digital assets, he has been covering the regulatory, institutional and technological developments of the sector since 2017 for an audience of decision-makers: banks, asset managers and fintechs. He is also the author of Bitcoin & Cryptos: L'enjeu du siècle (Talent Éditions, 2025), a book built around interviews with key figures from the ecosystem.

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Stripe Moves to Acquire PayPal: The Largest Consolidation Deal in Stablecoin History

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Crypto market: Bitcoin holds course despite turbulence

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How Credit Agricole is positioning CACEIS at the heart of on-chain finance

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Julien Maldonato (Deloitte): "Stablecoins are money with legs that never sleeps"

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Bitstack launches a 2.5% euro yield product with Spiko and Amundi

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MiCA: France, Binance's Last Resort in Europe

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Jan-Oliver Sell (Qivalis): "We May Need Ten Banks Just to Manage the Reserve"

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Strategy Sold 32 Bitcoin and Bought 24,869 — and the Market Is Reading the Wrong Playbook

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Laurent Marochini (Standard Chartered Luxembourg): "Most transactions will happen on-chain — we need to be ready to support that entire value chain"

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Christopher Grilhault des Fontaines (Dfns): "In times of war, a data center is an irresistible target"

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Ambre Soubiran (Kaiko): "Why We Bought Cometh"

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Julien Clausse (BNP Paribas): "A billion-dollar settlement is unlikely to be done in stablecoin"

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Tobias Seidl (Stokr): "We have proven that Bitcoin can serve as a serious capital markets infrastructure"

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From 1995 to Onchain: How Finance Gets Better

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MiCA Webinar, 11 May: The Key Takeaways

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Nicolas Louvet (Coinhouse): "We'll need to acquire companies, get acquired, merge"

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Digital Assets: The New Play for French Banks, Fintechs and Asset Managers

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MiCA: where do you stand? State of play 51 days before the deadline

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Paul Frambot (Morpho): "People in AI are a thousand times more bullish on crypto than crypto people themselves"

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EXCLUSIVE — HEURO: The Dark Side of the €600 Million Stablecoin

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Why Onchain Exposure is No Longer Optional

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Patrick Starkman (HEURO): "We are now the world's largest euro stablecoin issuer"

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Patrick Azzopardi (Dowsers): "We guarantee asset managers that the DeFi protocols they use are bulletproof"

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Charles Guillemet (Ledger): "Trust in cryptography is eroded, blockchains must migrate now"

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Lise to execute the world’s first on-chain IPO

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Scaling Onchain Finance for Real Money

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Morgan Stanley is about to shake up the Bitcoin ETF market

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Alexandre Roubaud (Bitstack): "We are valued at around 70 million dollars"

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Joris Delanoue (Fairmint): "Global finance will shift on-chain within two years"

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Arnaud Dubreuil (Ingenico): “Our goal is for a stablecoin transaction to be 10% cheaper than a card”

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MEV Capital: Anatomy of a collapse and takeover by Belem Capital

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Mounir Laggoune (Finary): "1 billion euros in assets under management is our goal for the year"

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Exclusive. Exaion-Mara: the sale soon to be sealed, a European competitor ready to emerge

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Onchain Finance: Banks and Fintechs in Action

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Simon Letort (Digital Asset): "Ethereum is years ahead of retail, Canton ahead of institutional"

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DeFi: Apollo makes strategic investment in Morpho

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Exclusive. Xavier Niel to save the Mara-Exaion deal?

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Mark Kepeneghian (Lise): "Achieve the first on-chain IPO in the first half of the year"

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Jan-Oliver Sell (Qivalis): "We are building the European infrastructure for the euro on-chain"

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Mike Silagadze (EtherFi): "We are going to launch a return product based on the euro"

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Exclusive. Waltio: behind the scenes of a hidden security flaw

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Exaion-Mara: why the sale framework threatens European sovereignty

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IPO: Can Ledger build on BitGo's success?

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Paul-Adrien Hyppolite (Spiko): "Our goal is to unlock the billions sitting idle in banks"

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Bankcards: the geopolitical risk that Europe can no longer ignore

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Clarity Act: Coinbase and JPMorgan clash over the future of stablecoins

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Fed denounces White House meddling: why it's a plea for gold and Bitcoin

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Survey of DeFi protocol income redistribution systems

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Oil: how the USDT enabled Venezuela to circumvent US sanctions

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Self-custody: towards mandatory declaration of crypto wallets from €5,000 in France

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Regulation: Is Switzerland isolating itself by overregulating?

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Market analysis: collapsing liquidity makes the market explosive

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EXCLUSIVE. BPCE now allows its customers to buy and sell cryptos

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From ETPs to Staking: taking advantage of on-chain finance

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Benjamin Louvet: "Seeing Tether buy 25 tons of gold per quarter is not a systemic shock"

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Ethereum: Fusaka gives the network processing capacity on a par with Visa

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Market analysis: the crypto industry in 2003

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Amundi launches its first tokenised money market fund

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From returns to derivatives: at the heart of the institutionalisation of cryptocurrencies

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Jean Meyer (Deblock): "Commerzbank is not the only bank interested in our business".

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Towards Strategy's exclusion from the MSCI stock market indices?

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EXCLUSIVE: Sorare to cut a third of its workforce

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Markets: have we entered a bear market?

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How Switzerland's central bank Is quietly building bitcoin exposure

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The state of crypto ETFs/ETPs in Q3 2025

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Crypto market faces liquidity crunch

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France: towards an unprecedented tax framework for governance tokens?

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EXCLUSIVE: Mara's Exaion acquisition includes clause barring EDF from AI and Bitcoin Computing

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ECB launches 2nd phase of digital euro project

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Charles Guillemet (Ledger): "Wallets will replace passwords"

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Tempo: Stripe's blockchain raises $500 million

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Alexandre Baradez (IG): "I feel more confident about Bitcoin today than about the S&P 500"

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Banks and Protocols, The New Architecture of Credit

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Crypto: The weekend when everything collapsed

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EXCLUSIVE: Amundi enters the crypto ETF race

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Onchain credit, the new lending architecture

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Exclusive. SWIFT launches on Linea to test its "on-chain" model

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Nine European banks join forces to launch a euro stablecoin

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Tether, soon to be valued at $500 billion?

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Exclusive. Sorare joins the Solana blockchain

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Crypto derivatives and institutional growth

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Crypto derivatives - September 2025

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Tempo (Stripe) marks the return of private blockchains

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Exclusive. Big Bang at The Sandbox: founders dismissed by Animoca

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Tokenised shares: what's really behind this new trend

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Christian Rau (Mastercard): "The crypto business already carries significant weight at Mastercard"

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Declan Fox: "Linea wants to reconcile L2s with Ethereum"

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Sharplink, Consensys and Linea's strategic arm

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John Egan (Stripe): "We want to build a global network for payments and treasury"

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Mastering the crypto killer-app

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Omar Shakeeb and Oleg Ivanov (SecondLane): "All pre-IPO crypto companies are revalued upwards"

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EXCLUSIVE: Revolut chooses Morpho for its DeFi yield offer

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Johann Kerbrat (Robinhood): "All the services we offer today with traditional systems will transition to blockchain"

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Tokenization takes the stock market by storm

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Mastering the engine of on-chain finance

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Stablecoins: the United States adopts the GENIUS Act, what you need to know

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The DeFi revolution is gradually being integrated into fintechs

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From securities to tokens: the transformation of financial markets

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Symbiotic launches Relay, a unique tool for connecting blockchains

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Nadia Filali (Caisse des Dépôts): "We need to move faster on stablecoins in Europe".

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Online

MiCA: Where do you stand? A status update 51 days before the deadline

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Digital Assets: The New Play for French Banks and Fintechs

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Onchain Finance: Banks and Fintechs in Action

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Inaugural breakfast - Sphere/The Big Whale

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Crypto Derivatives and Institutional Growth

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