Thomas Vlassopoulos

Antoine Lallour is Digital Assets Expert in DG Market Operations (Senior Management Team) at the European Central Bank, a position he has held since December 2025, based in Frankfurt, Germany. In this role he sits within the senior management team of the ECB's market operations directorate general, focused on digital assets.

His work on digital assets and financial innovation spans over a decade. At the Bank of England, where he worked from February 2018 to December 2021, he contributed to the Bank's work on issuing a digital pound, the Bank's response to proposed private sector digital currencies including stablecoins, the Basel Committee's framework for cryptoassets, and the UK regulatory response to banks taking cryptoasset exposures. From July 2020 he acted as Senior Manager for Innovation and Regulatory Perimeter, a team he set up and led. Earlier at the Bank of England, in the Prudential Policy Directorate and Sterling Markets Division, he led analysis on banks' exposures to cryptoassets, stablecoin issuance, asset encumbrance, and Risk-Free-Rate transition away from LIBOR. He also co-authored a 2016 Bank of England working paper, "Do we need a stable funding ratio? Banks' funding in the global financial crisis," with Hitoshi Mio. His stated areas of expertise include risk management, financial markets, regulation, and technology, with a focus on advising on complex systems affected by structural change, including banking prudential regulation reform, LIBOR transition, prudential rules on cryptoassets, and preparation for new forms of digital money. His total recorded professional experience spans approximately ten years. No educational background is referenced in the available source material.