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FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) said the rise of Binance stablecoin BUSD could spark the “Second Great Stablecoin War,” given how fast its market cap has surged over recent months. Bankman-Fried's recent comments come a month after Binance pushed ahead with plans to auto-convert a host of stablecoins supported on its
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Those projects often assume banks or other payment companies would intermediate the service. Crucially, Aurum also tested out a system where regular shoppers don't get their hands directly on CBDC, but instead use private stablecoins – in the same way modern-day card payments use commercial bank money backed up by
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Stablecoins could have such a profound effect on the established banking system that U.S. regulators need to require the digital tokens fit in without disrupting it, said Martin Gruenberg, the acting chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC), at a Brookings Institution event on Thursday. Source
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Acting United States Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) chairman Martin Gruenberg spoke Oct. 20 about possible applications of stablecoins and the FDIC’s approach to banks considering engaging in crypto asset-related activities. Although he saw no evidence of their value, Gruenberg conceded that payment stablecoins merit further consideration.Gruenberg began his talk
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There’s a “question whether we could apply a competition objective to the Bank of England, when we think about things like central bank digital currency and how that's implemented,” Jackson, who is the director of policy at Innovate Finance, told lawmakers on the committee. He added that the CBDC “could
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Crypto whales all across the board have been seemingly taking more conservative positions in stablecoins since the bear market started. This has
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Gensler pointed out that the CFTC does not have direct authority to write rules for the firms that issue stablecoins. Source
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The three-way talks with Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, and the Treasury Department have run into a number of sticking points, according to McHenry, the committee’s senior Republican. But he said Wednesday he’s hopeful the talks will end with a law that would
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The Committee on Payment and Market Infrastructures, an international body that sets norms for the sector, has said it wants to probe the case for cryptos that seek to maintain value against fiat further in the coming months, according to a report published by the Financial Stability Board, an international
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) found that
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