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Banks Afraid of Facebook Potential Shadow Banking System using Libra

Posted by Dan Seaman on June 11, 2020 - 5:21pm

After the United States Federal Reserve asked some of the nation’s largest banks about Libra, the banks expressed their negative stance towards the project, outlining the risks of potential decline in demand-deposit accounts and bank payment volumes, Bloomberg reports Sept. 30.

Libra and similar stablecoin projects, where a digital coin is pegged to an underlying value consisting of one or more fiat currencies, also pose a possible challenge to the bank business model built on privacy, the banks reportedly said during a quarterly meeting of the FAC earlier in September.

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Simon Keighley Sounds like the banks are worried about losing their centralised control - thanks for sharing Dan.
June 12, 2020 at 11:42am
Rick Gold Yes, more and more, they see the hand writing on the wall of fiat ...
June 11, 2020 at 8:18pm