Advancing some of the most controversial ideas in a 2019 discussion paper, the Basel Committee has now formally proposed capital, liquidity, risk-management, and supervisory standards it believes nations should apply to bank cryptoasset exposures. Global regulators have adopted a cautious approach that, despite high-cost proposals for higher-risk cryptoassets, may create a framework in which banks can profitably engage in a wide array of cryptoasset activities and thus expand cryptoassets with the stability and liquidity essential for many of the uses now proposed for them.
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