The British government plans to work with US officials to regulate the cryptocurrency industry.
The two countries will hold talks “to support the use and responsible growth of digital assets,” said British Chancellor of the chessboard Rachel Reeves in a speech from the World Summit Innovate Finance on Tuesday, April 29.
“For the United Kingdom to be a world leader in digital assets, international cooperation is vital,” said Reeves, whose comments were reported by Bloomberg News.
In addition to these remarks, the British Treasury also published a Crypto-Monnaies bill which will be finalized later in the year, added the report.
The United States, on the other hand, has seen its regulators – including the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Federal Reserve – begin to clarify their positions on the crypto.
As Pymnts wrote earlier this week, this change noted that agencies “reverse or soften the previous warnings and prepare the way for greater integration of cryptographic assets in the consumer financial system.”
In the center of these modifications is the dry, which has long held a prudent position – and some would say adversaries – on the crypto. Among its most urgent problems, was the regulatory treatment of cryptography custody: if and how regulated financial institutions may contain digital assets on behalf of customers.
“It is important for the dry to struggle with childcare problems, which are among the most difficult while we seek to integrate cryptographic assets into our regulatory structure,” said the commissioner of the Sec Hester Mr. Peirce, head of the agency’s cryptographic working group.
Bloomberg’s report noted that the cross-awareness of the United Kingdom is doubling among European Union officials on the impact of the pro-Crypto world vision of President Donald Trump on other countries.
In March, the François Villeur de Galhau of the European Central Bank said that American risks created another financial crisis because of his support for cryptocurrencies and non-banking finances.
“The United States is at risk of sinking negligence,” Villeroy de Galhau, a member of the Banking Board of Directors, said in French Weekly La Tribune Didance. “Financial crises often come from the United States and have spread to the rest of the world.
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