Digital Asset has appointed Sylvain Bigaud as Senior Director of Global Business Development and Strategy, with a focus on financial market infrastructures and capital markets development projects.
Bigaud joins from Euroclear, where he spent 13 years, most recently serving as Senior Executive Officer and Regional Head of the Middle East, Africa, and Turkey. In that role he managed a team of nine relationship managers and account managers, covering more than 200 financial institutions including banks, central banks, custodians, and asset managers across settlement, asset servicing, lending and borrowing, and collateral management in fixed income.
Euroclear is a leading global provider of Financial Market Infrastructure services for domestic and cross-border securities transactions and funds. It participated in a program on the Canton Network to tokenize gold, Eurobonds, and gilts for use as collateral, demonstrating how tokenized assets improve liquidity, transactional efficiency, and collateral mobility, and is a Canton Foundation Member.
He will be based in Dubai and report to Aurélie Dhellemmes, Global Head of RWA Sales at Digital Asset.
