Reserves of top stablecoins

This graph from an IMF blog neatly summarises the considerable diversity in the asset backing of stablecoins. While the IMF blog highlights the risks associated with stablecoins, I prefer to remain open to the possibility that they represent a new vector of competition that will force traditional banking to lift its game.

That possibility does however (for me at least) require that the banking regulators develop a stablecoin regulatory model that is fit for purpose. I am yet to see any jurisdiction that appears to be offering a good model for how this might be done but welcome any suggestions on what I am not seeing.

In the interim, JP Koning did a good post summarising the regulatory models he saw being pursued by stablecoin issuers.

Tony – From the Outside

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After working in the Australian banking system for close to four decades, I am taking some time out to write and reflect on what I have learned. My primary area of expertise is bank capital management but this blog aims to offer a bank insider's outside perspective on banking, capital, economics, finance and risk. View all posts by From the Outside