Japan's Central Bank Believes Blockchain Could Create Tax Issues
Growth in the use of both digital currencies and distributed ledgers could hold regulatory and monetary policy implications, a senior official for Japan’s central bank said today. Speaking during a fintech event at the Univeristy of Tokyo, Bank of Japan deputy governor Hiroshi Nakaso remarked about the benefits and risks of the increasing digitization of financial services. Particularly, the noted that the use of distributed ledgers could lead to confusion among regulators in instances where wholly electronic ledgers are maintained. He told attendees: “Moreover, if FinTech stimulates....
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The Deputy Governor of the Bank of Japan, the country’s central bank, has stated that central banks around the world “will and have” to watch the progress and developments concerning digital currencies like Bitcoin and its underlying technology, the blockchain. Hiroshi Nakaso, a deputy governor of the Bank of Japan was speaking broadly about the financial market’s infrastructure in an age when innovation through financial technology is bringing about changes in payments and settlement systems. The recent speech [PDF] was heard during the ‘Conference on Retail Payments’ in Japan. Pinning....