DAILY101222

2022-10-12T16:58:59-04:00October 12th, 2022|2- Daily Briefing|

ECB Staff: Retail CBDC Success May Hang on Interest-Rate Inducements

A new paper from European Central Bank staff looks not so much at CBDC policy objectives, but at whether central banks can achieve them and still satisfy the needs of retail depositors and businesses.  Based in part on two small, failed CBDC ventures, the paper concludes that CBDC adoption will prove harder than policy focused CBDC analyses suggest.

Barr Accepts Crypto Activities In Banks But Demands New Safety Rules, Consumer Standards

Although he did not adopt Acting Comptroller Hsu’s attack yesterday on cryptoassets, Fed Vice Chair Barr today made it clear that the Fed believes, as it and global regulators repeatedly say, that the same risks should be covered by the same rules.  Mr. Barr does believe that cryptoasset activities may be appropriate for banks if appropriate standards and internal controls are in place, noting that the Fed is now moving past its own supervisory guidance (see FSM Report CRYPTO31) to work with the FDIC and OCC to craft additional standards.

IOSCO Releases Global Online Marketing, Enforcement Standards

IOSCO today increased its focus on digitalization, moving away from longstanding edicts regarding monitoring to a set of specific standards for supervision and enforcement.  IOSCO urges supervisors to require firms to have online marketing-and-distribution standards as well as protocols governing online onboarding.

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