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Current Banking Reserve Reserve requirements in the crypto industry


Capital requirements for banks from the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), which are banking standards, have created a “chokepoint,” designed to –throttle the growth of the crypto industry, according to Chris Perkins, president of the investment coinfund.

Current capital rules lower the return of a bank to equity (ROE), a critical measure of profitability, by forcing higher reserve requirements for crypto handling, doing crypto -related activities Too expensive for banksPerkins told cointelegraph.

“It’s a different type of chokepoint, which is not direct. It’s a very nuananced way of suppressing activity by doing so expensive for the bank to do activities like them, ‘I can’t,'” he added.