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Written by Punter Southall Law | 13 May 2022

Martin Finnegan of Punter Southall Law discusses the dramatic implosion in crypto markets

Punter Southall Law’s Partner, Martin Finnegan, caught up again yesterday with Bloomberg journalist, Lionel Laurent, to discuss the dramatic implosion in crypto markets this week. Martin and Lionel agreed that the crypto market’s borrowing of regulated markets’ language is misleading. For example, crypto “exchanges” are merely unregulated platforms and certainly not “custodians” in any traditional sense. Read Laurent’s follow-up piece here:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-12/bitcoin-crypto-s-chainsaw-massacre-bloodies-digital-exchanges