Central Bank (Central Bank) Russia should not work so slowly in the direction of digital financial assets (Century), said the head of the State Duma Committee on the Financial Market Anatoly Aksakov at the conference “Cryptoacivals: All you wanted to know about regulation, but were afraid to ask “, Correspondent” Tape.ru “.
Deputy reminded that the law on digital finactivities was adopted in 2020, but the assets still did not appear. At the same time, large Russian companies, such as Sber, Norilsk, Transmashholding, work in this direction and went to the Central Bank with relevant proposals.
“But still we have the legalization of proposals did not happen. Here I would like to dwell the central bank that it is necessary to work faster, and maybe those discussions, that shaft of negative, which collapsed on the report of the Central Bank (about cryptocurrentes – approx . “Renta.ru”), less if, in the framework of the Act on digital financial assets, we actively launched the assets relevant and improved the law, if required, “he said.
Commenting on the report of the Central Bank about cryptocurrency, he noticed that so far this is not about the bill, but about the material that needs to be discussed in order to further develop an derogated position. Separately, Aksakov drew attention to the issue of the ban of mining: now hundreds of thousands of people are now engaged in this direction, and the legalization of the sector would allow, in particular, to ensure serious tax revenues.
With a proposal of tough regulation, cryptocurrency and a complete ban in Russia of mining and transactions with cryptocurrencies of the Central Bank operated on January 20. The regulator insists that such assets entail significant risks for the Russian financial market.