FigureAsia 35 Under 35 · Finance
Guilhem Chaumont
Age 34 · Institutional digital-asset markets · France and Singapore
A market-infrastructure founder building institutional liquidity, credit and derivatives systems across fragmented digital-asset venues.
- Age at the edition eligibility date
- 34
- Field
- Finance
- Country or region
- France and Singapore
- FigureAsia U35 Assessment
- 81.0 / 100
Profile
Career and documented record
Guilhem Chaumont has spent six years turning Flowdesk from a market-making service into a broader institutional trading operation. As co-founder and chief executive, he oversees a firm working across liquidity provision, over-the-counter execution, derivatives, credit and tokenised markets. In 2025 Flowdesk launched an institutional options and OTC-derivatives capability, followed by a dedicated credit desk, adding completed products rather than merely announcing an intention to expand.
The Asian connection is operational and material. Flowdesk opened its Singapore office as an APAC base, with Chaumont publicly setting out the rationale for serving the region and extending round-the-clock market coverage. By April 2026 the company said it employed more than 200 people, connected to more than 150 exchange venues and covered more than 1,000 asset pairs. Those are private-company measures and do not reveal trading profitability or risk-adjusted performance; they nevertheless establish an internationally scaled market-infrastructure operation.
FigureAsia selection
Why Guilhem Chaumont is on the list
FigureAsia selected Chaumont for a record of completed institutional build-out. The relevant achievement is not Flowdesk's financing. It is the progression from issuer market-making to a multi-product trading firm with live credit and derivatives functions, supported by technology operating continuously across a large number of venues.
Market-making is consequential but difficult to assess from outside. Public scale does not by itself show execution quality, balance-sheet risk or conduct. The recognition therefore rests on verified product launches, current legal authority and the sustained Singapore/APAC operation, while avoiding claims about returns or market share that Flowdesk has not disclosed.
Verified work
The 2025–26 record
Flowdesk launched institutional options and OTC derivatives
The completed expansion added options and treasury-management capability to a trading infrastructure then connected to more than 140 centralised and decentralised exchanges.
An institutional credit desk went live
Flowdesk added a dedicated credit function to its liquidity and trading business, broadening the capital solutions available to institutional counterparties.
Field context
The work in its field
Institutional digital-asset markets remain fragmented across exchanges, jurisdictions and settlement systems. A liquidity provider must connect venues continuously, manage collateral and counterparty exposure and build controls that can withstand abrupt price moves.
As the sector matures, clients increasingly expect a single firm to provide execution, options, credit and reporting. That integration can improve capital efficiency, but it also makes governance, risk limits and regulatory discipline more important than headline transaction volume.
FigureAsia U35 Assessment
Assessment breakdown
81.0out of 100
Completed financial consequence
25 / 30
Flowdesk launched institutional options and OTC derivatives is treated as a delivered financial outcome. The score is confined to the completed result described in the record and excludes projections or paper valuation.
Individual agency and execution
20 / 25
The documented role—Co-founder and Chief Executive—and the attributed actions in the profile establish accountable execution. Institution-wide results are not assigned to the person alone.
Verified reach and significance
17 / 20
Institutional digital-asset markets remain fragmented across exchanges, jurisdictions and settlement systems. A liquidity provider must connect venues continuously, manage collateral and counterparty exposure and build controls that can withstand abrupt price moves.
Innovation and field influence
12 / 15
The record combines institutional digital-asset markets with the completed work described in An institutional credit desk went live. Credit reflects demonstrated practice, not a claim of novelty by itself.
Stewardship, access and Asian relevance
7 / 10
The Asian connection is explicit: Chief executive of a global digital-asset trading firm with an established Singapore office and a completed APAC operating build-out. Stewardship credit is limited to the regulatory, governance, access or stakeholder evidence described in the profile.