New bill permits Russian financial platforms to operate blockchains.
The legislation will allow them to combine their regular activities in the traditional financial market with issuing digital assets.The State Duma, the lower house of parliament in Russia, has adopted on first reading aallowing financial marketplaces, as defined by another Russian law, to also function as blockchain platforms facilitating the issuance and exchange of digital financial assets .
The legislative initiative comes from a group of lawmakers headed by the chairman of the parliamentary Financial Market Committee, Anatoly Aksakov, crypto news outlets Bits.media and RBC Crypto reported. Its main purposes is to help the development of tokenized cashless payments, theThe latter are regulated by the law “On Digital Financial Assets,” which went into force in January, 2021, and mostly covers digital assets with an issuer.
The new bill builds on the law “On Conducting Financial Transactions Using Financial Platforms,” which came into effect in 2020. It describes the said financial platforms as information systems that provide financial organizations with an opportunity to meet consumers online. On these platforms, individual investors have access to financial instruments, banking and insurance services, as well as services offered by companies working in the securities market. The possibility to integrate financial and blockchain services will expand the types of activities that their operators can perform and the range of products and services they can provide, the sponsors noted.
Amid Western financial restrictions, the Russian government has been exploring ways to develop its digital assets market. The Central Bank of Russia has already added several entities to its register of authorized DFA issuers. These are the tokenization service
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