The Central Bank of Argentina has taken steps to ban private banks from offering cryptocurrency services to customers in the country. The action comes after two banks had started offering cryptocurrency purchasing services from their apps. The measure is said to be directed at mitigating risks associated with cryptocurrency assets.
The Central Bank of Argentina is tightening its permissive attitude when it comes to the links between cryptocurrency assets and private banks. The institution has issued a document that deals with the offering of cryptocurrency purchasing and trading services through these institutions, banning them from facilitating such transactions for Argentinian citizens.
Financial entities may not carry out or facilitate their clients to carry out operations with digital assets, including crypto assets and those whose yields are determined based on the variations that they register, that are not regulated by the national authority and authorized by the Central Bank of Argentina (BCRA).
Per financial sources, the cryptocurrency operations might also cause a demand in dollars that would increase the breach between the official dollar price and the dollar on the black market, called the “blue” dollar. Argentina has exchange controls, and this could have influenced the decision to stop these operations before they became more important in the bigger economic picture.
The difference between the official dollar and the blue dollar has remained the same, with the latter being about 80% more expensive than the former, meaning that the volumes traded during these days did not exert any influence on this exchange rate.
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