S2E4 Dr Lisa Cameron, Founder of Global Legislators Forum in Digital Assets

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 the APPG, and which parties and individuals were key contributors;

- Thoughts on the digital pound and the Bank of England’s trajectory;

- Whether Dr Cameron felt previous governments had met their promises to make the UK a digital assets hub, including:

“moves that will see stablecoins recognised as a valid form of payment as part of wider plans to make Britain a global hub for cryptoasset technology and investment”

"measures include legislating for a ‘financial market infrastructure sandbox’ to help firms innovate, an FCA-led ‘CryptoSprint’, working with the Royal Mint on an NFT, and an engagement group to work more closely with industry”

that “the UK will proactively explore the potentially transformative benefits of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) in UK financial markets, which enables data to be synchronized and shared in a decentralised way to potentially achieve greater efficiency, transparency and resilience”

see announcement from April 2022: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-sets-out-plan-to-make-uk-a-global-cryptoasset-technology-hub

- Where the new-ish Labour government will head and some future gazing;

- More about the Legislators Forum, including why it was set up, its aims and how it hopes to achieve them; and

- Dr Cameron’s role in KobeLab, which deals with blockchain technology and real estate, including their recent award win.