Nick Sylvester has joined Metaco, the Swiss-based digital assets service provider, as global head of partnerships. He was previously global partner director at LSEG.

SEBA Bank, the Swiss-based crypto bank, has appointed Amy Yu as CEO of its APAC division. Yu will initially be located in Singapore.  She previously worked at Genesis as APAC head of sales. Prior to her move into the digital assets space, Yu supported the development of J.P. Morgan’s prime services business in APAC. SEBA…

Ben Lorente has joined Copper.co, the UK-based digital assets service provider, as head of alliances and partnerships. He previously spent more than five years at LSEG, most recently as global head of strategic partnerships.

BNY Mellon has appointed Caroline Butler as CEO of digital assets. Butler joined BNY Mellon in 2020 as global head of custody after nearly two decades at J.P. Morgan. As the CEO of digital assets, she will continue to report to Roman Regelman, CEO of securities services and digital. As CEO of custody services, she…

Copper.co, the UK-based provider of institutional digital asset custody and trading solutions, has appointed Lord (Philip) Hammond of Runnymede, the former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer (finance secretary), as chair. Hammond has served as a senior adviser to Copper since 2021.

Metaco, the Switzerland-based provider of digital asset custody and orchestration technology, has made two senior executive appointments. Peter DeMeo, former global head of digital asset infrastructure at IBM, joins as chief product officer, overseeing the product suite as well as establishing the company’s digital asset advisory practice. Angel Nunez Mencias, former IBM lead architect, joins…

Zodia Custody, the UK-based crypto custody service from Standard Chartered in association with Northern Trust, has appointed Julian Sawyer as its new chief executive. Sawyer takes over from Maxime de Guillebon, who was seconded from Standard Chartered’s innovation unit, SC Ventures, in 2020. Sawyer was most recently CEO of Bitstamp, a crypto exchange.

SEBA Bank, a Switzerland-based, FINMA-licensed digital assets bank, has appointed Xavier Alabart as chief technology officer and a member of the bank’s ExCo. He was previously European CTO for Bolttech, a Singapore-based fintech specializing in the insurance sector.

Mark Cheng has joined Hex Trust’s board of directors. Cheng is a senior advisor at Animoca Brands and a founding partner at GameFi Ventures, a venture capital firm with a focus on blockchain games.

SIX Digital Exchange has appointed Alexandre Kech as head of digital securities, based in Switzerland. He was most recently with Citi Ventures, where he launched and ran its blockchain & digital asset team.