Central Bank Of Russia Steps Up Monitoring P2P Transactions Including Crypto
The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) has proposed that the nation’s commercial banks tighten monitoring on crypto and regulator operations. The objective is to stop transactions that attempt to evade its “special economic measures to counter the outflow of foreign currency abroad,”. This proposal mentions scrutinizing crypto trading, which is allegedly one of the ways […]
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