Copper.co names Stephen Strickland as chief compliance officer
Digital asset infrastructure firm Copper.co has appointed Stephen Strickland as chief compliance officer and Jim Turley as a non-executive director, effective immediately.
Strickland joins Copper.co as CCO
Strickland joins Copper from Elements Digital where he was chief compliance officer. His previous roles include head of financial crime operations and nominated officer for Deutsche Bank operations international and as head of anti-bribery and corruption at Barclaycard.
Turley joins from Fnality International, where he served as executive chair for three years. Fnality is a banking consortium start-up working on a regulated digital payment leg for wholesale financial markets using blockchain technology.
Prior to Fnality, Turley has spent time at Deutsche Bank across a number of senior management roles, including global chief operating officer for the global transaction banking business and global head of foreign exchange and commodities trading.
Copper CEO Dmitry Tokarev says Turley and Strickland bring “outstanding experience and wisdom” to the firm.
Turley says: “I have no doubt that Copper is well-positioned to seize the opportunities that will be presented as a result of the ongoing shifts in financial services, and I look forward to assisting the company as it executes its strategy.”
Strickland says that at such a “critical time” for the digital assets sector, he will be “upholding best practices for digital assets, institutional digital asset custody and trading solutions compliance at Copper”.
In January, Copper appointed former UK chancellor Philip Hammond as chair.
