In Early Podcast
Speaking to those at the forefront of the digital assets and technology sectors, telling real life stories, considering the growth and growing pains of the industry, and exploring how blockchain and other technology has made an impact on people’s lives. With guests including household names like BitGo, Coincover, Grant Thornton, Lockton and Crystal Blockchain, to more specialised enterprises like fractional mining farms for NFTs, to authors, artists and developers, from stable coin issuers backed by real estate, to Web3 gaming and sports projects, specialist insurance providers, and academics to those in finance and law, the In Early podcast is a dialogue with those servicing, developing and implementing technology before wider adoption. Hosted by Matt Green, director and Head of Blockchain & Digital Assets and Technology Disputes at Lawrence Stephens, and produced by Luke Carey.
Episodes
This episode features Oliver Tonkin of BCB Group, Europe's leading payment service provider for the digital asset economy.
He notes "crypto within FSMA is the right thing to do, it's financial services and investments... I am not convinced about bringing stable coins into the FSMA regime".
Having just won "Best Provider of Crypto Innovation" at the Global Crypto Awards, Oliver explained the business, and his views on the industry:
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This week Matt speaks to Dr Ann Sofie Cloots, Senior Policy Advisor at Coinbase and Affiliate Lecturer on AI, DLT and Web3 at the University of Cambridge.
They speak about:
- Coinbase's position in the market, the role of Senior Policy Advisor and the role it plays in shaping Coinbase's global strategy;
- The company's response to then Financial Stability Board's Global Regulatory Framework for Crypto Asset Activities, designed to...
This episode features Scott Pounder, Founder and CEO of Prometheus Insights https://prometheus-insights.com/About/
Formerly of the Met Police, Head of Investigations at Crystal Intelligence, then at FTI Consulting as a director, Scott now runs his own operation, providing expert reports for crypto investigations and blockchain analytics, asset recovery and insolvency support, as well as cybercrime intelligence and wealth verificat...
This episode features Rachel Wolcott, a founding editor of Compliance Corylated, writing on financial fraud, market abuse, and of course cryptocurrency.
This episode covers both (i) the state of industry onboarding, including know-your-client and anti-money laundering checks and well as (ii) fraud repayment initiatives.
Matt and Rachel speak about:
This episode features Dr Lisa Cameron, a Member of Parliament between 2015 and 2024, and previous chair of the Crypto and Digital Assets All Parliamentary Group. Now the founder of Global Legislators Forum in Digital Assets, this episode explores:
- Dr Cameron’s tenure whilst an MP, including previous governments' appetite for promoting this sector and the comradely between those representing more regional seats;
- The creation of ...
This week Matt speaks to both Marcin Zarakowski and Roman Bieda, of Token Recovery, a Swiss outfit specialising in "combining technical expertise, legal proficiency and a swift, discreet, end-to-end process devised to get your property back”.
Matt asks them about their backgrounds at BSV and Coinfirm respectively, and more about the operation, how Token Recovery take on victims of fraud where crypto assets are lost following a hack...
This episode features Professor Sarah Green who has just finished a four year tenure as Law Commissioner for Common and Commercial Law.
During that time Sarah’s law reform work included the Electronic Trade Documents Act 2023, Advice to the Government on Smart Contracts, updating the Arbitration Act 1996, scoping reforms to the law of Intermediated Securities and drafting guidance and a bill to ensure that English Law is well suite...
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