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We've had conversations with a lot of major banks and other financial players over the last year.

And one really, really consistent theme has been all of them saying, look, you know,

six months ago we had a mandate basically never to touch crypto. And now we have a mandate that

we have to figure out how to do something in crypto for the next two months. Sam Lightman-Fried there,

talking in Hong Kong last year about the pressure banks were under to get involved in the

crypto craze. His company, FTCX's demise and its implications are the focus of this week's

views room. Welcome back to the views, the podcast from Reuters' breaking views where columnists

from around the world talk about the big stories of the week. I'm your host,

Amy Donnellin, coming to you from London. The crypto market is in crisis. Less than two weeks ago,

FDX, a digital exchange founded by trouserphobic Sam Bankman-Fried, collapsed. It's exposed the market

to a wave of scrutiny and raised questions about

regulation. And I'm very lucky to be joined by Liam Proud, our financial services guru, who has been

covering it, as well as Peter Tal Larson, our global editor of Breaking Views, who's also been writing

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