French regulators ACPR_actu want to extend EU crypto laws to cover decentralized finance. jackschickler reports.
has said, as regulators seek to extend planned crypto laws to cover more diffuse structures.
Policymakers are increasingly turning their attention to financial services in which there is no single central intermediary, and last week the U.S. Treasury called for tougher money laundering controls, warning DeFi was being used to“The regulation of disintermediated finance cannot simply replicate the systems that currently govern traditional finance,” said the consultation by the ACPR, the arm of the central bank that supervises banks and insurers. The consultation is open until May 19.
As one option, “players exercising effective control over sensitive services could be required to incorporate, becoming subject to supervision,” added the paper, which also “proposes to strengthen the security of smart contracts using a certification mechanism” covering code security and governance. New rules should also stop intermediaries selling highly leveraged products to regular retail investors, the report said, noting that DeFi often allows high-risk products to be used that, in regular finance, would be restricted to seasoned professionals.
The Legal High Committee for Financial Markets of Paris , a grouping of regulators and lawyers, is currently pondering the legal status of the decentralized autonomous organizations , and is due to report in the fall. That could follow in the footsteps of the Law Commission of England and Wales, which has saidThe ACPR said it wanted to “explicitly” extend planned European Union consumer protection rules to cover DeFi.
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