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‘It’s a delusion’: Meet the financiers fighting back against crypto hype

Anti-crypto voices cite a 'lack of moral purpose' and 'deeply predatory' products

Clockwise from top left: Anne Boden (Starling Bank), Savvas Savouri (Toscafund), Stephen Diehl (computer programmer), Ashley Alder, (FCA), Andres Velasco, (LSE school of public policy) and Harriett Baldwin (Treasury Committee chair)
Clockwise from top left: Anne Boden (Starling Bank), Savvas Savouri (Toscafund), Stephen Diehl (computer programmer), Ashley Alder, (FCA), Andres Velasco, (LSE school of public policy) and Harriett Baldwin (Treasury Committee chair)

Financial News has just published its inaugural list of influential cheerleaders for crypto, many of whom are bridging the gap between “tradfi” and digital assets.

But for every yin there is a yang. On the other side of the debate is a groundswell of people who think crypto simply shouldn’t exist. 

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