Crypto Helped Get Trump Elected. Now It’s Wooing UK’s Farage

In late July, senior executives from some of the world’s largest digital-asset companies gathered in the City of London to hear Zia Yusuf, head of policy at the right-wing Reform UK party, lay out his vision for crypto’s role in Britain’s financial industry.

Over coffee and pastries at the offices of lobbying group NorthPoint Strategy, the former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. executive addressed representatives from firms including US-based exchanges Coinbase Global Inc. and Kraken, people familiar with the matter said. He tore into regulators for hindering growth and pledged that crypto would thrive under a Reform-led government, according to two people who were present.