Assistant Vice President - Digital Assets
James Watters is Assistant Vice President – Digital Assets at Barclays, based in London, a position he has held since January 2025. Prior to this role, he worked within Barclays as an Analyst in Fintech FX Sales from July 2023 to January 2025, and completed a Global Markets Summer Analyst internship at the bank in 2022. His skills, as listed on his profile, include FX sales, digital assets, fintech, and global markets.
Watters holds a Bachelor's degree in Natural Sciences, specialising in Computer Science and Economics (2:1, 68%), from Durham University, where he studied from 2020 to 2023. Prior to university, he attended Radley College, where he achieved A* grades in Maths and Economics, and A grades in Further Maths and Geography.
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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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