Deputy Chairman of the Board of Sberbank Anatoly Popov said that by the end of the year the largest Russian state-owned bank plans to conduct the first transactions with cryptocurrency.
At the Sberbank conference “FI day. Blockchain: on the threshold of the financial era,” Deputy Chairman of the Board Popov said that various aspects are now being “worked out” with market participants:
Popov said that the issue of the emergence of a state exchange for trading cryptocurrency is being studied separately under the so-called experimental legal regime:
According to the top manager, in July Sberbank sent wishes to the Bank of Russia regarding the parameters of the experimental legal regime for cryptocurrency exchange trading.
Earlier, Anatoly Popov said that cryptocurrencies are better suited for cross-border payments than Russian digitalized assets (DFA) issued with government support.
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Source: Cryptocurrency

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