Barney Frank Warns of Cryptocurrency's Role in Future Bank Failures

Barney Frank Warns of Cryptocurrency's Role in Future Bank Failures
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Barney Frank — the former congressman known for the Dodd-Frank Act, which overhauled US banking regulation to prevent another global financial crisis — said there was one thing lawmakers and regulators didn’t reckon with back in 2008: cryptocurrencies.

“Digital currency was the new element entered into our system,” the 82-year-old Frank said in an interview Sunday. “A new and destabilizing – potentially destabilizing – element is introduced into the financial system. What we get are three failures.”

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