A team that includes representatives from the Bank of Israel has issued a
formal request for information about Distributed Ledger Technology
(DLT), published on its website Dec. 18.
The request — the goal of which is, as per the title, the “Regulatory
Coordination of Virtual Assets”— states that “the regulators of the
Israeli financial system believe that there is room to renew and
strengthen cooperation and coordination among all regulators and the
public” regarding DLT.
Besides the country’s central bank, the team reportedly includes
representatives from the country’s Securities Authority, the Ministries
of Finance and Justice, the Tax Authority, the Israel Money Laundering
and Terror Financing Prohibition Authority and various other local
regulatory bodies.
The document asks for information pertaining to barriers to the
development of the local DLT industry. The text inquires explicitly
about problems encountered by local DLT companies, fundraisers,
investors and consumers dealing with virtual assets as examples.
Moreover, the request inquires about the risks inherent in the use of
virtual assets and the opportunities of DLT in the finance industry.
Lastly, the statement also asks how DLT can help address issues
regarding Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and terrorism financing.
As per the statement, interested parties are invited to submit relevant information until Dec. 31, 2018.
As Cointelegraph reported at the beginning of November, an Israeli study
group exploring digital currency options has recommended that the
country’s central bank not issue its own cryptocurrency.
At the beginning of December, Ehud Barak, a former Israeli Prime
Minister, compared digital currencies to Ponzi schemes. He reportedly
stated that “he would never invest” in crypto as “Bitcoin and
cryptocurrencies [are] a Ponzi scheme.”
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