The Bank of Russia as a Regulator in the Market of Financial Technologies

The paper is devoted to the study of the legal status of the Bank of Russia in the market of financial technologies. The author highlights that the Central Bank of the Russian Federation is consistently given powers to regulate, control and supervise the activities of operators of investment, financial platforms, digital financial asset exchange operators, as well as information platforms issuing digital financial assets. At the same time, the author concludes that measures taken for the integrated development of this industry are insufficient. In this regard, the author proposes to give the Bank of Russia powers to regulate, control and supervise activities directly associated with the issuance and circulation of cryptocurrencies (digital currencies). The study reveals the lack of the legal framework necessary for the issuance and circulation of the national digital currency that is proposed to be considered as electronic funds, with the Bank of Russia acting as an electronic funds operator. The author also concludes that there is a need to combine both general ways of financial and legal regulation of relations associated with the development of new financial technologies and specific ones providing for the application of experimental legal regimes.

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