Copper.co, a provider of digital asset custody and trading infrastructure, has appointed Tim Neill as chief risk officer. Neill, who will be reporting to Copper’s Chief Operating Officer, Sabrina Wilson, joins the firm from Mastercard and his appointment begins with immediate effect.

Neill has over 20 years’ experience in operations and risk, with a focus on payments, open banking, financial services and technology, latterly at Mastercard where he was chief risk officer for their new payments platforms division and head of risk for product and engineering, covering new payments platforms, digital banking and CBDCs. 

Neill is a board member of Vocalink Ltd UK (a position approved by the Bank of England) and Board Trustee of Voca Pensions Ltd UK. Prior to Mastercard, he held a number of senior risk and operations positions at London Stock Exchange Group, Standard Chartered Bank and Deutsche Bank, amongst others.