Cryptocurrency: Parliamentary panel to hold meeting with industry experts today

Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance will hold a meeting with industry experts on the subject "CryptoFinance: Opportunities and Challenges".

New Delhi: Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance will hold a meeting with industry experts on the subject "CryptoFinance: Opportunities and Challenges".

BJP MP and former union minister Jayant Sinha is the chairman of the committee. The meeting will be held at 3 pm today.

Flagging the issue of misleading non-transparent advertising on cryptocurrency, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday chaired a comprehensive meeting on the way forward for cryptocurrency and related issues in which it was discussed that unregulated crypto cannot be allowed for money laundering and terror financing, according to government sources.

The meeting was held after a consultative process done by the Reserve Bank of India, the Finance Ministry, and the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) in which global and Indian experts were consulted and global examples and best practices studied. According to sources the government strongly feels that attempts to mislead the youth through over-promising and non-transparent advertising have to be stopped.

It was also discussed that unregulated crypto markets cannot be allowed to become avenues for money laundering and terror financing. Sources said that the government is cognizant of the fact that this is an evolving technology hence it will keep a close watch and take proactive steps.

There was consensus also that the steps taken in this field by the Government will be progressive and forward-looking. The government will continue to pro-actively engage with the experts and other stakeholders. Since the issue cuts across individual countries' borders, it was felt that it will also require global partnerships and collective strategies.

ANI