Founder & Head of Global Institutional Relationships
Mintoo Bhandari is the Founder and Head of Global Institutional Relationships at Monument Bank Limited, a UK challenger bank focused on savings accounts and curated lifestyle services for mass affluent clients. Monument received its full banking licence in November 2021 and launched its first savings products in early 2022. In 2024, the bank joined the Future Fifty programme for top pre-IPO companies in the UK. Bhandari's current mandate centres on global institutional relationships; the CEO role is held by Ian Rand.
Prior to founding Monument in July 2018, Bhandari spent nearly 12 years at Apollo Global Management as a Senior Partner and Managing Director, based across New York and London before establishing the firm's presence in India. Earlier in his career, he worked as an investor at Harvard University's endowment and has served on the boards of more than 20 companies across three continents. He also served on the Council of Governors and Finance Committee at University College London from April 2019 to September 2021, and is Chairman of the UK Foundation of the Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation. Bhandari holds a S.B. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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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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