Cryptocurrency: UK Treasury considers plan for digital pound - Yahoo Finance

The government is considering introducing a national cryptocurrency or “digital pound”, the economic secretary to the Treasury has told MPs.
The UK was committed to becoming a world crypto hub, Andrew Griffith said.
And the government was “a long way down the road… to establish a regime for the wholesale use, for payment purposes, of stablecoins”.
Stablecoins are designed to have a predictable value linked to traditional currencies or assets such as gold.
A public consultation on the attributes of a digital pound would be launched in coming weeks, Mr Griffith told the Treasury Select Committee.
“I want to see us establish a regime, and this is within the FSMB [Financial Services and Markets Bill, currently being debated in Parliament], for the wholesale use for payment purposes of stablecoins,” he said.
Central banks around the world are developing or exploring digital currencies.
And Mr Griffith told the committee: “It is right to look to seek to embrace potentially disruptive technologies, particularly when we have such a strong fintech and financial sector.”
He wanted to allow the opportunity for this “potentially disruptive game-changing technology that can challenge but also turbocharge all of those [financial] industries”, he said.
The “crypto winter”, a rapid decline in the value of Bitcoin and other assets and , has intensified concerns about whether any cryptocurrency can ever be considered stable.
It also has the potential to raise many public-policy issues.
And there will also be a public consultation on Britain’s first general regulatory approach to crypto assets, a sector where consumer protection has come under scrutiny in recent weeks.
But the consultation will form part of a “research and exploration” phase and will help both the Bank of England and the government develop the plans over the following few years.
When it came to regulating crypto, Mr Griffith told the committee, being right was more important than being first, given the UK’s “strong financial reputation”.
“It will be a long lead-time activity,” he said.
The EU has set out the world’s first comprehensive set of rules for regulating crypto markets.
They are due to receive final approval in the coming weeks and come into effect in 2024.
Mr Griffith said the UK rules could be broader, to include decentralised finance, and everyone would benefit from greater transparency.
“We want the right regime, operated in the right way, that has the right balances in it,” he told the committee.
He also committed to hold “at least” six roundtables with those in the crypto industry, to “expose us as regulators and decision makers”.
Getting the design of a digital pound right is a bigger priority than a rapid launch, Britain's Financial Services Minister Andrew Griffith said on Tuesday. China has pushed ahead with piloting a digital yuan and the European Central Bank is studying a digital euro, piling pressure on Britain to do the same and keep abreast of advances in financial technology. The finance ministry is due to launch in the coming weeks a public consultation on the attributes of a digital pound.
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