{"id":51020,"date":"2021-10-11T20:00:20","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T17:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=51020"},"modified":"2025-09-02T21:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T18:27:12","slug":"copper-hires-former-uk-chancellor-philip-hammond-as-adviser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/copper-hires-former-uk-chancellor-philip-hammond-as-adviser\/","title":{"rendered":"Copper hires former UK chancellor Philip Hammond as adviser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond has joined Copper&#8217;s custodial service as a senior adviser.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Honoured that former UK chancellor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhilipHammondUK?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PhilipHammondUK<\/a> has joined Copper as a Senior Adviser.<\/p>\n<p>Lord Hammond&#8217;s presence will champion our collective vision of bringing DLT to the fore and driving global finance towards transparency, democratisation &#038; digitalisation. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qFdf1dcR3W\">pic.twitter.com\/qFdf1dcR3W<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Copper (@CopperHQ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CopperHQ\/status\/1447511562093219842?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to a press release, Hammond will provide &#8220;strategic guidance for Copper as the company expands globally.&#8221; He will also focus on promoting the UK as a &#8220;global leader in digital asset technologies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years Hammond led the Foreign Office, the Ministry of Defence, and the Department for Transport. In 2016 he was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in Theresa May&#8217;s new government \u2014 a post he left after three years.<\/p>\n<p>Co-founder of Brevan Howard Asset Management <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/billionaire-alan-howard-invests-25-million-in-copper-the-london-custodian\">Alan Howard invested $25 million in Copper<\/a>. Funding continued the Series B round, in which <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/london-based-copper-raises-50m-in-series-b-funding\">the custodian raised $50 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full feed of news, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond has joined Copper&#8217;s custodial service team as a senior adviser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1156,810],"class_list":["post-51020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-institutional-investors-and-whales","tag-united-kingdom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"39","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51021,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51020\/revisions\/51021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}