Co-founder
Paul-Adrien Hyppolite is Co-Founder and CEO of Spiko, a Paris-based fintech founded in June 2023 and licensed by French authorities (ACPR and AMF) as a MiFID investment firm. He co-founded the company to build financial infrastructure for the issuance, transfer, and distribution of financial instruments, with an initial focus on tokenised money market funds. Spiko launched two tokenised money market funds in mid-2024 — a euro-denominated fund (EUTBL) and a dollar-denominated fund (USTBL) — and subsequently added a sterling fund. As of the most recent available figures, Spiko manages just over $815 million in assets across its products, with the euro fund exceeding €500 million, which the company describes as the largest tokenised cash equivalent in euros. Total assets under management across all funds place Spiko among the leading global providers of tokenised money market funds, behind BlackRock's BUIDL and on a trajectory to surpass Franklin Templeton's BENJI.
Prior to founding Spiko, Hyppolite served as Deputy Head of the Financial Markets Division at the Direction générale du Trésor (French Treasury), where he was responsible for the regulation of financial instruments markets. Before that, he held a position as Seconded National Expert at the European Commission from 2019 to 2021, and earlier worked as a Private Equity Analyst at Antin Infrastructure Partners in London. He holds a degree in Economics and Finance from École normale supérieure and École polytechnique.
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