BPI submitted a comment letter to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in response to the BCBS’s consultation on the prudential treatment of cryptoasset exposures. In its letter BPI recommended that:
- Any final framework be flexible in order to accommodate the rapid evolution of this area, promote a level playing field, and avoid regulatory fragmentation;
- The classification framework should be more risk sensitive and more appropriately tailored to the characteristics of cryptoassets; and
- The proposed application of a 1250% risk-weight to “group 2” cryptoassets is reactionary, fails to account for the impact of buffers, and ignores the existing separate treatment for banking book and trading book exposures.
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