Digital currency regulated by national policy
On November 9, 2019, the central bank has not launched digital currency
in 2014, the Central Bank of China set up a special research team to conct in-depth research on the framework of digital currency issuance and business operation, key technologies of digital currency, issuance and circulation environment, and legal issues
in January 2017, the central bank officially established the digital currency Research Institute in Shenzhen
in September 2018, the Institute of digital currency built a trade finance blockchain platform
On July 8, 2019, at the launching ceremony of the digital finance open research program and the first academic seminar, Wang Xin, director of the Research Bureau of the people's Bank of China, disclosed that the State Council has officially approved the research and development of the central bank's digital currency, and the central bank is engaged in corresponding work in organizing market institutions
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benefits of digital currency
the digitalization of central bank's currency helps to optimize the central bank's monetary payment function, improve the central bank's monetary status and the effectiveness of monetary policy. The central bank's digital currency can become an interest bearing asset to meet the holder's reserve demand for safe assets, and can also become the lower limit of bank deposit interest rate. It can also become a new monetary policy tool
at the same time, the central bank can affect the bank deposit and loan interest rate by adjusting the digital currency interest rate of the central bank, and help to break the zero interest rate lower limit
at the end of 2013, the central bank and other five ministries and commissions jointly issued the bitcoin risk notice, which clearly defined bitcoin as a special Internet commodity, and people can buy and sell it freely at their own risk. But it denies its monetary attribute. At this stage, bitcoin cannot and should not be used as currency
Ruitai, Qianjin card, Laite and other digital currencies are all applicable to the definition of bitcoin. Digital currency can exist as a commodity.
on September 4, 2017, the people's Bank of China and other seven ministries and commissions issued the "notice on preventing the financing risk of token issuance", which cleaned up the ICO and virtual currency trading venues. The scale of domestic virtual currency transactions decreased significantly, effectively avoiding the impact of virtual currency prices on China's financial market.
according to the virtual financial assets Act (hereinafter referred to as VFAA) which came into effect on November 1, 2018 by the Maltese Government, a license is required to operate the virtual financial assets (VFA) business. This kind of license is issued by the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA). All applications for licenses must be made through qualified VFA agents
according to the virtual financial assets act, according to different types of business activities, the license is divided into four categories:
category 1: investment consulting
the license allows the holder to provide investment consulting and financing services for customers, but not to hold virtual assets on behalf of customers
scope of application: VFA investment advisory bodies
category 2: except for exchanges and proprietary trading, any other virtual asset services
holders of such licenses have the right to provide any VFA services and can hold or control customers' funds, but they can not operate VFA exchanges through their own accounts or operate exchanges by themselves
scope of application: wallets, encrypted financial asset investment funds
Category 3: any other virtual asset services except exchanges
holders of such licenses have the right to provide any VFA services, hold or control customers' funds, but cannot operate VFA exchanges
scope of application: OTC traders or market makers
category 4: VFA exchanges
are authorized to operate VFA exchanges and hold or control customer funds, virtual financial assets and / or private encryption keys, as well as services of custodians or agents, but only limited to the operation and related activities of the exchanges
scope of application: all kinds of cryptocurrency exchanges, such as coin an and okex, need to apply for such licenses
the application cycle is 1-2 months. It is suitable for the exchange to apply for compliance, and can engage in financial services such as ICO, cryptocurrency, etc. for details, please consult.
