FNG Exclusive… FNG has learned that experienced FX institutional sales executive Alex Maslin has jumped to digital asset prime broker Copper.co. At Copper.co, Mr. Maslin will serve as Business Development Director – Custody and Prime Brokerage for Digital Assets.

Alex Maslin spent the better part of the last 11 years involved in providing institutional sales and prime brokerage services in the FX and multi-asset spheres. After starting his FX industry career in 2009 working at MF Global he spent more than five years at IG Group and then four years at rival CMC Markets in the B2B side of the business, offering institutional liquidity in FX and CFDs to brokers, white labels, hedge funds, banks and HNW traders. He spent the past two years as Prime Brokerage Sales Manager at Maybank Kim Eng in their London office.

Copper.co, or Copper Technologies, is one of a new generation of companies transforming how institutional investors engage with digital assets – providing the institutional community with infrastructure, in addition to custody, trading and prime brokerage solutions. The London-based company was founded in 2018 by former Dolfin CTO Dmitry Tokarev. Copper Technologies provides a gateway into the cryptoasset space for institutional investors, offering custody, trading, prime brokerage and more for over 100 digital assets with security, speed and control for its clients at the core.