Bitcoininsider: BCB Group: Working with regulators benefits everyone

Our Co-founder and CEO, Oliver Tonkin’s, response to the key message which emerged at this year’s Digital Assets Week – A growing collaboration between policymakers and payments innovators is accelerating the adoption of digital assets and tokenisation across European markets.

In her keynote, Sasha Mills, Executive Director, Financial Market Infrastructure, Bank of England, commended the speed of innovation that has become the norm in the digital assets ecosystem in the UK.

BCB’s Co-founder and CEO, Oliver Tonkin, said the increasing speed of adoption of these innovative approaches is allowing the companies that have embraced regulation to gain an advantage over competitors who have not.

“Part of what BCB has been doing in getting these new regulatory licences is making the point that you can use us for payments, but you can also use us for crypto with one integration leveraging the licences and products we have. People want integration and multiple use cases.

“In years gone by, you needed to go to one partner for each of those things. I suspect everybody wants a bit of redundancy. We have the licences, the partnerships, and we have the tech. The opportunity for us is to be the infrastructure provider of choice.”

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