Finance & Fury Podcast

Welcome to Finance and Fury. This episode we will continue looking at the crypto markets. In particular, we focus on the regulatory frameworks that have been released by the Bank for international settlements, BIS for short. One division of the BIS - the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision - released a consultation paper this month to provide a framework to every nation’s regulator of financial institutions on how to treat cryptocurrencies - Now – the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision is the world's most powerful regulator of banking standards and rules – it gets to decide what capital adequacy banks should focus on, as well as what assets should be classified as capital – if you have been listening for a while, you would have heard me mention this group – they are who APRA, who regulates superfunds and banks in Aus take their directions from So this recent release is meant to provide the framework for banks on how to treat different forms of cryptocurrency on their balance sheets - if they wish to