UK Crypto ‘Whitelist’ Needed to Solve Debanking, Lobby Group Says
“We are calling upon the Government to find a path forward,” CryptoUK’s Director of Operations Su Carpenter told financial services minister Andrew Griffith in a Mar. 21 letter. “Blanket bans and restrictions of transfers from UK banks to crypto asset platforms… will have the effect of fundamentally undermining the Government’s ambition to become a crypto asset hub,” Carpenter added.
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