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New Delhi: The Bank of England, a new responsibility: supporting innovation in digital payments, including a category of digital assets known as stablecoins. Stablecoins are digital tokens designed to avoid the extreme price swings associated with virtual digital assets like Bitcoin. While Bitcoin can rise or fall by thousands of…
New Delhi: Last week, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance released its 36th Report on the proposed Securities Market Code Bill, 2025. The Securities Market Code proposes to establish a single rulebook for India’s securities market by replacing the three key laws that currently govern Indian securities. While the Committee’s…
New Delhi: The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance’s recommendations on the Securities Markets Code, 2025 represent an important milestone in India’s evolving approach to the regulation of virtual digital assets. By recommending that the Government comprehensively examine the need for a statutory and regulatory framework for the sector, while also…
Authored by : Dilip ChenoyChairperson, Bharat Web3 Association New Delhi: The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance’s recommendations on the Securities Markets Code, 2025 represent an important milestone in India’s evolving approach to the regulation of virtual digital assets. By recommending that the Government comprehensively examine the need for a statutory…
New Delhi: India’s treatment of Virtual Digital Assets (VDAs) over the past few years has been marked by a clear contradiction: the ecosystem is heavily taxed and monitored, yet fundamentally unrecognized within a coherent regulatory framework. This ‘tax-first, regulate-later’ approach has shaped market behavior in ways that domestic regulators are…
New Delhi: Imagine a country where prices rise rapidly every year and the value of the local currency keeps falling. If the same 100 rupee note cannot buy as much as it did yesterday, families would either have to buy less or spend more money to buy the same thing.…
New Delhi: Most financial transactions today involve an intermediary such as a bank or broker that helps track where money comes from and where it goes. Traditionally, this system has made sure that financial activity can be monitored and verified. But imagine a financial service that does not need a…
New Delhi: In its June 2026 Financial Stability Report released last week, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) assessed the strength of India’s banking system, highlighted key global economic challenges, and outlined efforts to safeguard financial stability. The report also includes notable observations on the rising influence of crypto assets,…
New Delhi: Global share trading is beginning to evolve, and the main drivers of this shift are increasingly crypto platforms rather than conventional stock exchanges. In the last year, Robinhood, Kraken, and Bybit have started offering tokenised US stocks to investors outside the United States. These tokenised stocks are digital…
New Delhi: Think of a shared online ledger that is open for everyone to see, where people from across the globe can add new records, but no single authority controls it. Thousands of independent participants maintain this network together, ensuring that once data is recorded, it is almost impossible to…
