UK As Crypto & Blockchain Center
According to the report published on Monday UK has all the necessary assets to get into a worldwide center for blockchain innovation technologies and digital forms of money inside the following couple of years.
The report which contains 960 pages and has been authored by analytical organizations Big Innovation Center, DAG Global and Deep Knowledge, uncovers that since 2017, over £500 million worth of capital investment has been done into UK blockchain organizations. This, joined with the UK’s current leaders in FinTech, and additionally industrial and regulatory assistance resulted to the report’s opinion that the UK can possibly turn into a world leader in the advanced digital and crypto economy biological community by 2022.
A year ago in September, the authority as well published an official caution regarding the Initial Coins Offerings (ICOs), indicating that they represent “very high-risk, speculative investments”. In November, the FCA as well alarmed about cryptocurrency Contracts for Differences (CFDs), which represent a kind of secondary trading. Nearly a month later, the FCA CEO Andrew Bailey declared in a BBC interview that purchasing Bitcoin symbolizes analogous risks like card game and in fact the cryptocurrency is not a secure investment.
It is expected that UK will disclose cryptocurrency regulations further this year. In March, the FCA declared that it will be cooperating with the UK Treasury Committee and the Bank of England in formulating some important documents on various aspects, risks, and opportunities which can be introduced and caused by the cryptocurrencies.