India’s finance minister waiting for consultations to decide whether to ban o...
The country's finance minister admitted to not having enough information to make a fateful call. Yet another statement by a top Indian official suggests that regulatory uncertainty around the status of digital assets in the country will persist in the near term.Responding to the general discussion of the 2022–23 Union Budget at Rajya Sabha, the upper chamber of India’s bicameral parliament, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman stated that she was not going to “legalize or ban” cryptocurrency at this moment. The minister added that “Banning or not banning will come subsequently,” when the....
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Finance Minister on Indian Crypto Regulation
India’s finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, discussed cryptocurrency regulation Wednesday at a fireside chat organized by Stanford University School of Medicine.
She explained that India will not rush to finalize the country’s crypto policy. On the contrary, she said India will take....
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