India’s central bank is trying to expand the global narrative around cryptocurrencies beyond “financial stability and integrity to macro-financial and cross-sectoral implications and risks of crypto-assets.
Should the country decide to issue a digital pound, existing data protection, security and anti-money laundering rules would need amending, said Louise Abbott, partner at U.K.-based Keystone Law.
The country’s central bank wants people to be able to exchange Zimbabwe dollars for the gold-backed token so they can hedge against the currency’s volatility.