US Treasury Secretary and Indian Finance Minister Discuss Crypto Regulation

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman mentioned crypto regulation through the ninth India-U.S. Economic and Financial Partnership assembly. They confused the significance of worldwide cooperation and setting excessive regulatory requirements globally.

US and India Discuss Issues Surrounding Crypto

Indian Union Minister of Finance & Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman and U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen mentioned cryptocurrency regulation Friday through the ninth assembly of the India-U.S. Economic and Financial Partnership.

U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das additionally attended the assembly, which was held in New Delhi. It was Yellen’s first go to to India as treasury secretary.

According to a joint assertion issued by Yellen and Sitharaman on the conclusion of the assembly:

The United States and India look ahead to sustained engagement by the longstanding U.S.-India Financial Regulatory Dialogue, a platform for discussing rising monetary sector points and precedence areas, together with … digital property.

Following the Economic and Financial Partnership assembly, Yellen participated in a roundtable dialogue on India-U.S. Business and Economic Opportunities with enterprise leaders and outstanding economists from each nations.

The treasury secretary reportedly known as for worldwide collaboration on coping with cryptocurrencies. “With respect to cryptocurrencies, there are some pools where we have inadequate market consumer and investor protection issues that need to be dealt with,” she mentioned, elaborating:

But that is an space the place we had some dialogue in our conferences at the moment, the place worldwide cooperation is de facto necessary amongst public authorities, the personal sector and public stakeholders want excessive regulatory requirements globally.

In addition, Yellen mentioned: “We need to take steps to reduce the cost of cross-border payments. And we’re very actively working within the context of the Financial Stability Board [FSB], the Financial Action Task Force [FATF], the multilateral development banks, the IMF, and bilateral exchanges to really address on a global basis, the risks and some of the benefits from cryptocurrencies.”

The treasury secretary famous that within the U.S., cryptocurrency regulation has been a “tremendous focus” of the Biden administration. She emphasised that “a good deal of progress” has been made in “at least dealing with issues of illicit financing through cryptocurrencies.” Nonetheless, she admitted that there’s nonetheless some strategy to go.

India’s finance minister has additionally been pushing for worldwide cooperation on crypto oversight. In September, she urged the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to guide in crypto regulation.

India nonetheless doesn’t have a regulatory framework for cryptocurrency. Sitharaman mentioned final month that the Indian authorities will focus on crypto regulation throughout its G20 presidency to determine a tech-driven regulatory framework for digital property. The authorities is reportedly planning to finalize its stance on the legality of crypto by the first quarter of subsequent 12 months with the intention to turn into FATF-compliant.

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