About Lucy Demery

Lucy Demery joins Barclays from Standard Chartered Bank where she was Global Head of Fintech Banking and played a leading role in defining and developing strategic partnerships with fintech clients and investors across the bank. In this role she responsible for the origination and execution of strategic transactions across M&A, capital raising, leveraged finance, capital markets and transaction banking products. Prior to Standard Chartered, Lucy was an investment banker at J.P. Morgan and an M&A lawyer at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. During her career, Lucy has been involved in a number of notable transactions, including SoftBank Vision Fund’s investment in C2FO, SingLife’s merger with Aviva Singapore, Grab’s pre-IPO financing, Blackstone’s acquisition of Refinitiv, securitisations for Funding Circle and Zopa, as well as fintech partnerships with Adyen, Airwallex, Ant Group, Facebook, Stripe and Visa. She joins Barclays in July 2021 and will report to Joel Fleck, Co-head of FIG Banking, Americas and Global Head of Fintech Banking. Lucy Demery is a regular speaker at global fintech conferences and has advised the UK Government on public policy and investment to support the tech sector. Lucy graduated with First Class Honours from the London School of Economics and received her Juris Doctorate from Columbia University, where she was a Kent Scholar.