President Biden will sign Executive Order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets
Digital assets, including securities, have seen significant growth in recent years, surpassing the market capitalization of $ 3 trillion last November and up from $ 14 billion over the past five years.
Research suggests that about 16 percent of American adults – about 40 million people – invest, trade, or spend secret money.
More than 100 countries test or evaluate Digital Banks (CBDCs), the digital currency of the independent national currency.
The rise in digital assets creates an opportunity to strengthen American leadership in the global financial system and the border of technology but also has major implications for consumer protection, financial stability, national security, and climate risk.
The United States must maintain technological leadership in this rapidly growing space, supporting innovation while minimizing risk to consumers, businesses, the wider financial system, and the climate.
Also, it must play a leading role in international integration and the global governance of digital assets in line with the values ​​of democracy and the global competitiveness of the U.S.
That is why today, President Biden will sign the Executive Order outlining the government’s first approach, to address the risks and potential benefits of digital assets and their core technologies.
The directive sets out the national digital asset policy on six key priorities: consumer and investor protection; financial stability; illicit funds; U.S. leadership in the global financial system and economic competition; investment; and responsible renaming.
President Biden will sign Executive Order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets
In particular, the Executive Order calls for measures to:
- Protect U.S. Consumers, Investors, and Businesses by directing the Department of the Treasury and other agency partners to assess and develop policy recommendations to address the implications of the growing digital asset sector and changes in financial markets for consumers, investors, businesses, and equitable economic growth. The Order also encourages regulators to ensure sufficient oversight and safeguard against any systemic financial risks posed by digital assets.
- Protect U.S. and Global Financial Stability and Mitigate Systemic Risk by encouraging the Financial Stability Oversight Council to identify and mitigate economy-wide (i.e., systemic) financial risks posed by digital assets and to develop appropriate policy recommendations to address any regulatory gaps.
- Mitigate the Illicit Finance and National Security Risks Posed by the Illicit Use of Digital Assets by directing an unprecedented focus of coordinated action across all relevant U.S. Government agencies to mitigate these risks. It also directs agencies to work with our allies and partners to ensure international frameworks, capabilities, and partnerships are aligned and responsive to risks.
- Promote U.S. Leadership in Technology and Economic Competitiveness to Reinforce U.S. Leadership in the Global Financial System by directing the Department of Commerce to work across the U.S. Government in establishing a framework to drive U.S. competitiveness and leadership in, and leveraging of digital asset technologies. This framework will serve as a foundation for agencies and integrate this as a priority into their policy, research and development, and operational approaches to digital assets.
- Promote Equitable Access to Safe and Affordable Financial Services by affirming the critical need for safe, affordable, and accessible financial services as a U.S. national interest that must inform our approach to digital asset innovation, including disparate impact risk. Such safe access is especially important for communities that have long had insufficient access to financial services. The Secretary of the Treasury, working with all relevant agencies, will produce a report on the future of money and payment systems, to include implications for economic growth, financial growth and inclusion, national security, and the extent to which technological innovation may influence that future.
- Support Technological Advances and Ensure Responsible Development and Use of Digital Assets by directing the U.S. Government to take concrete steps to study and support technological advances in the responsible development, design, and implementation of digital asset systems while prioritizing privacy, security, combating illicit exploitation, and reducing negative climate impacts.
- Explore a U.S. Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) by placing urgency on research and development of a potential United States CBDC, should issuance be deemed in the national interest. The Order directs the U.S. Government to assess the technological infrastructure and capacity needs for a potential U.S. CBDC in a manner that protects Americans’ interests. The Order also encourages the Federal Reserve to continue its research, development, and assessment efforts for a U.S. CBDC, including development of a plan for broader U.S. Government action in support of their work. This effort prioritizes U.S. participation in multi-country experimentation, and ensures U.S. leadership internationally to promote CBDC development that is consistent with U.S. priorities and democratic values.
The Administration will continue work across agencies and with Congress to establish policies that guard against risks and guide responsible innovation, with our allies and partners to develop aligned international capabilities that respond to national security risks, and with the private sector to study and support technological advances in digital assets.
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