Financial supervision of digital currency

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The digital currency of the central bank is DCEP

the name of the digital currency developed by the central bank is DCEP (digital currency electronic payment). DC is digital currency. EP is electronic payment. Payment transmits digital things through a certain way, not paper currency. Therefore, electronic payment itself has the attribute of digital currency

The characteristics of digital currency are: low transaction cost; Fast trading speed; Highly anonymous

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Application of digital currency

I. fast, economic and safe payment and settlement

cross border payment helps RMB internationalization. In 2015, the settlement volume of cross-border payment involving current account is about 8 trillion yuan. To accelerate the internationalization of RMB, cross-border payment and settlement procts and solutions with low cost, high efficiency and low risk are needed

At present, there are still a lot of repetitive human work in the bank's electronic loan process and processing process, and as the basic support of loan issuance, many of the collateral has the situation of false pricing or multiple or even no collateral. We can consider using digital currency to price and track bank collateral:

3. Bill finance and supply chain finance

in recent years, various bill market businesses based on commercial bills have grown rapidly, and bill financing procts have become a hot area of Internet financing. However, about 70% of the current bill businesses in China are still paper transactions, Supply chain finance is also highly dependent on labor costs

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network digital currency

2. ​ In recent years, the speculation related to virtual currency (such as ICO, IFO, IEO, IMO and STO) has been in vogue. The price has gone up and down, and the risk has gathered rapidly. Relevant financing entities raise funds from investors or virtual currencies such as bitcoin and Ethereum through illegal sale and circulation of tokens. In essence, they are illegal public financing without approval. They are suspected of illegal sale of token bills, illegal issuance of securities, illegal fund-raising, financial fraud, pyramid schemes and other illegal crimes, which seriously disrupt the economic and financial order

on September 4, 2017, the people's Bank of China and other seven ministries and commissions issued the "notice on preventing the financing risk of token issuance", which cleaned up the ICO and virtual currency trading venues. The scale of domestic virtual currency transactions decreased significantly, effectively avoiding the impact of virtual currency prices on China's financial market.

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At present, there are mainly two regulations about virtual currency in China. In 2013, many ministries and commissions issued the notice on prevention of bitcoin risk, giving important tips on bitcoin risk. On September 4, 2017, the central bank and other seven ministries and commissions jointly announced again that the first token issue was an unauthorized illegal financing

According to Zhao, there are various ways to launder money by using digital currency. For example, technical means may be used to transfer funds into the cryptocurrency system, and then deploy various transfer addresses, making it difficult to query its transaction path. In other words, money laundering promoted by technological progress is more and more difficult to be detected and prevented. In addition, it has cross regional characteristics, and the lack of global response mechanism exacerbates this situation

4. Germany, Japan, Thailand, if you want to buy, you can go to dabit exchange

5. Digital currency is a global financial behavior, which can not be controlled by any country. Therefore, digital currency is easy to be laundered, and the central bank will supervise it

6. MFSA is the only financial services regulator in Malta. It was established on July 23, 2002 to take over foreign exchange regulatory powers from the Central Bank of Malta, the Maltese stock exchange and the Maltese financial services centre. MFSA is a self-made and independent institution, reporting to the Council once a year
according to the virtual financial assets Act (hereinafter referred to as VFAA) which came into effect on November 1, 2018 by the Maltese Government, a license is required to operate the virtual financial assets (VFA) business. This kind of license is issued by the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA). All applications for licenses must be made through qualified VFA agents

according to the virtual financial assets act, according to different types of business activities, the license is divided into four categories:

category 1: investment consulting

the license allows the holder to provide investment consulting and financing services for customers, but not to hold virtual assets on behalf of customers
scope of application: VFA investment advisory bodies

category 2: except for exchanges and proprietary trading, any other virtual asset services

holders of such licenses have the right to provide any VFA services and can hold or control customers' funds, but they can not operate VFA exchanges through their own accounts or operate exchanges by themselves
scope of application: wallets, encrypted financial asset investment funds

Category 3: any other virtual asset services except exchanges

holders of such licenses have the right to provide any VFA services, hold or control customers' funds, but cannot operate VFA exchanges
scope of application: OTC traders or market makers

category 4: VFA exchanges

are authorized to operate VFA exchanges and hold or control customer funds, virtual financial assets and / or private encryption keys, as well as services of custodians or agents, but only limited to the operation and related activities of the exchanges
scope of application: all kinds of cryptocurrency exchanges, such as coin an and okex, need to apply for such licenses

the application cycle is 1-2 months. It is suitable for the exchange to apply for compliance, and can engage in financial services such as ICO, cryptocurrency, etc. for details, please consult.