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Bloomberg

European Central Bank Executive Board member Benoit Coeure urged Group of 20 nations to discuss ways to regulate bitcoin at their upcoming summit, adding that digital currencies could also be a force for good by pushing countries to upgrade their payment systems.
“Let’s act on the risks and that’s about regulation,” Coeure said on a panel at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos.
“The international community is kind of shaping, gathering and preparing an answer to that and I will expect for instance a G20 discussion in Buenos Aires in March to focus very much on these issues with a regulatory answer.”
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Digital currencies can buy anything from drugs to cupcakes and are seen as having the potential to reshape the global financial system.


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Couere said the international community needs to find a way to understand and “control these gateways between the shadow currency universe and the regular financial system.”
At the same time he urged central banks not to lose sight of the opportunities created by the rise of cryptocurrencies.
“We need better cross-border payments also because it’s good for development, it’s good for financial inclusion,” Coeure said. “So bitcoin can help us, it can pay us a service by forcing us to upgrade our systems. That’s a positive lesson.”




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G20 must regulate bitcoin to avoid risks says European Central Bank board member Benoit Coeure at Davos

A man stands at a desk at La Maison du Bitcoin in Paris on January 17, 2018 to buy digital cryptocurrency Bitcoins. / AFP PHOTO / GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT

Benoit Coeure, executive board member of the European Central Bank (seen on Friday at the World Economic Forum in Davos) has demanded that G20 nations look into regulating bitcoin. Photo: Bloomberg