THELOGICALINDIAN - The governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria CBN Godwin Emefiele has dedicated the acme banks accommodation to exclude cryptocurrency affairs from the cyberbanking ecosystem In his affidavit afore the Nigerian Senate Emefiele claimed that the February 5 charge is in the best interests of Nigerians
Crypto Not Money
Immediately afterward the announcement of the CBN prohibition, Nigeria’s adapted banking institutions began to bisect ties with crypto traders and exchanges. However, afterward an outcry over the move, some admiring associates of the Nigerian Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance, and Other Banking Institutions requested Emefiele to abrupt the aldermanic anatomy on the account abaft the CBN prohibition.
In answer the move, the CBN governor told the Nigerian legislators that “cryptocurrency is not accepted money” back it is not issued by any axial bank. Using this argument, Emefiele again added:
As expected, the CBN governor additionally acclimated his actualization afore the aldermanic anatomy to abound the accepted claims adjoin cryptocurrencies. Further, in his bid to bolster the case adjoin cryptocurrencies, a address reveals that Emefiele went on to allotment “instances of advised bent activities that had been affiliated to cryptocurrencies.” However, the address does not accommodate capacity on some of the “investigated cases.”
No Contradictions Between CBN and the SEC
However, admitting the CBN’s hardline attitude on cryptocurrencies, Emefiele still claims that the axial bank’s “actions were not in any way, appearance or anatomy adverse to the development of Fintech or a technology-driven acquittal system.” The CBN arch additionally common that the axial coffer will do “all aural its authoritative admiral to brainwash Nigerians on arising banking risks.”
Meanwhile, in animadversion fabricated during the aforementioned meeting, Lamido Yuguda, the Director-General of the Nigerian Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) denied there had been action contradictions amid the two regulators. The address quotes Yuguda acknowledging that the SEC had “put on authority the admission of all bodies afflicted by CBN annular into its proposed authoritative incubatory framework.”
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