“I think there’s a long time between now and an election and so I wouldn’t expect them to further the details out at this point,” said Varun Paul, senior director and business lead for CBDC and financial market infrastructure at Fireblocks. “I’m pleased – I don’t think that digital assets are proving to be a political hot potato at the moment, I think we’re lucky in the U.K. that it’s not become a political battleground like it has been in the U.S.”
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