Indian central bank’s ‘informal pressure’ disrupted payments: Coinbase CEO
“I guess we have a concern that [the Reserve Bank of India] may be actually in violation of the Supreme Court ruling,” said Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong. Just three days after debuting in the Indian market, United States-based crypto exchange Coinbase abruptly stopped using United Payments Interface (UPI), the most popular payment service in the region. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong later revealed that the service disruption was due to an “informal pressure” from India’s central bank.During Coinbase’s 2022 Quarterly Earnings call, Armstrong spoke about the company’s global expansion plans....
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