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New guidance from the state department of Financial Services sets a 90-day advance notice period for state banks wishing to offer crypto-related services. Original Source
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This year’s events – culminating recently with the implosion of one of the global crypto giants, FTX – “have revealed that the crypto industry risk management practices are weak, that stablecoins may not be stable, and that contagion risk within the crypto industry is high,” said Hsu, who has been
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However, CBDCs are not without their risks and challenges. They could expose economies to "greater systematic financial risk brought on by volatility and sudden foreign exchange fluctuations," the report said. Plus, central banks will have to workout how they can use a CBDC to ensure inclusion if not everyone has
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Liquidators for Three Arrows Capital (3AC) have seized $35.6 million from the collapsed crypto hedge fund’s bank accounts in Singapore three months after getting the nod from that country’s High Court to begin probing 3ACs assets in the country. Original Source
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Referring to the events surrounding the collapse of FTX as “a handful of magic beans”, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren seemed to frame the “contagion” spreading through the crypto space as a partisan issue.Speaking at a Senate Banking Committee nomination hearing on Nov. 30, Warren addressed committee counsel Jonathan McKernan, who
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India’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), is launching its first retail digital rupee pilot on Dec. 1 with the participation of eight banks. The pilot will start in four cities and then expand to cover nine more cities across India. RBI Picks 8 Banks, 13 Cities to
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The Reserve Bank of India will start testing its retail central bank digital currency (CBDC), the digital rupee, in Mumbai, New Delhi, Bengaluru and Bhubaneswar with the initial participation of four banks: State Bank of India, ICICI Bank, Yes Bank and IDFC First Bank, it announced Tuesday. Source
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"Pending the finalization of the framework, MAS requires Singapore-incorporated banks to apply a 1250% risk weight for exposures to riskier crypto assets such as Bitcoin and Ether," he said. "... Based on MAS’ minimum total capital adequacy requirement of 10% for systemically important banks incorporated in Singapore, this means that
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Nine major financial institutions and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York have started to experiment with a digital dollar proof of concept to see if distributed ledger technology can improve settlement between central banks, commercial banks, and regulated non-banks. The New York Fed details that the proof of concept
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