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Growing misuse of the currencies via money launderers, terrorist financiers and other bad players. This week representatives of the project will go to capitol hill to discuss the proposal for a crypto currency. At the Treasury Department across the u. S. Government with the International Financial community, theres been a great deal of activity recently related to the regulation and treatment of Digital Assets in crypto currency. Id like to give some brief explanatory remarks about what we have been doin been giving bt since theres lots of interest and then i will open up questions. Last month the association, a consortium of 28 businesses including a facebook subsidiary announced it is developing a crypto currency. The Treasury Department has expressed very serious concerns that libra could be misused by money launderers or terrorist financiers. Crypto currency have been exploited to support billions of dollars of Illicit Activity like cybercrime, tax evasion, extortion, ran somewhere
Recently as you know theres been a great deal of interest about Digital Assets including crypto currency such as that claim and libra. There are many regulatory and supervisory question regarding Virtual Assets and Virtual Currencies but i will focus narrowly on the concerns the treasury has regarding the growing misuse of the currencies via money launderers, terrorist financiers and other bad players. This week representatives of the project will go to capitol hill to discuss the proposal for a crypto currency. At the Treasury Department across the u. S. Government with the International Financial community, theres been a great deal of activity recently related to the regulation and treatment of Digital Assets in crypto currency. Id like to give some brief explanatory remarks about what we have been doin been giving bt since theres lots of interest and then i will open up questions. Last month the association, a consortium of 28 businesses including a facebook subsidiary announced it
Good morning ladies is ultimate. Welcome to the Carnegie Endowment. My name is george and i am a Vice President for studies here at the endowment. Its my pleasure to welcome you this morning for a discussion with pakistans relatively new ambassador to the United States , asad majeed khan. While he arrived in his ambassador position in january, he has long and deep experience both in washington, working on u. S. Issues back in the ministry and most recently was serving as ambassador to japan. Before coming here. He has an outstanding sense of not only dynamics with the u. S. , but globally and him particular asian security. We are honored to have you with us. What we will do, i will ask a few questions to get the discussion started. And then we will turn it into a larger discussion. I have invited the ambassador if at any time he wants to ask you all a question or me a question, about what is going on in this very predictable rational environment in which we live in in washington, we ar
Which he struck a very humble but sort of defensive tone in saying that libra is not intended to be an investment vehicle. Its intended to be a payment vehicle that the crypt okurancy will not be used for monetary policy, and sort of defending this as a way for facebook to provide Economic Opportunity to its users. But of course, he is going to be facing a very hostile environment when he testifies tomorrow, and certainly well see if that same tone is echoed by the treasury secretary when he speaks in just a few minutes. This is most notable because this comes just days after President Trump tweeted specifically about libra as well as cryptocurrencies, that could be construed, Steven Mnuchin is approaching the podium lets go to him right now. Recently, as you know, theres been a great deal of interest about Digital Assets, including cryptocurrency such as bitcoin and libra. There are many regulatory and supervisory questions regarding libra, virtual assets, and virch wal currencies but