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banks in upcoming years, but the regulation and testing processes are convoluted and complicated for institutions in both spaces to assess, according to a report by the Financial Times. Several regulators want to come up with a multi-agency cybersecurity approach that tests banks in a coordinated way.
The success of this venture depends on its trusted and safe integration with the existing financialsystem,” Facebook said on Tuesday. The currency, Facebook said, would be backed by existing currencies and hard assets.
government will respond to the introduction of new digital currencies. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Federal Reserve and the Senate Banking Committee will both closely scrutinize the implementation of Libra. Libra won’t, he said, displace the current currencysystem, or complicate monetary policy. “I
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