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French c.bank says Facebook's Libra had to obey anti-money laundering rules
Published in Amwal Al Ghad on 25 - 06 - 2019

Facebook's planned global ‘Libra' cryptocurrency must respect and obey anti-money laundering regulations, France's central bank chief said in a magazine interview.
It must also seek banking licences if it offers banking services, Bank of France Governor Francois Villeroy de Galhau said.
Facebook Inc announced plans last week to introduce a new global cryptocurrency called Libra as part of an effort to expand into digital payments.
Villeroy said that while there was room to improve cross-border money transfers, Libra had to follow anti-money laundering rules.
"The risks are increased by the anonymity that Libra users would have," Villeroy said in an interview with French weekly magazine L'Obs, adding that Libra would have to ensure transactions and users' data were fully secure.
"If the project seeks to go beyond payments to offering banking services like deposits, it will then have to be regulated like a bank with a banking license in all the countries it operates. Otherwise it would be illegal," he said.
France is using its year-long presidency of the Group of Seven nations (G7) to set up a task-force to tackle such concerns at an international level.
It has been charged with studying how cryptocurrencies like Libra are governed by regulations ranging from money laundering laws to consumer-protection rules.
Source: Reuters


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