The Central Bank of the Argentine Republic issued a statement announcing new restrictions on payment service providers that offer payment accounts with digital assets and cryptocurrencies within the country.
In the statement they stated: “Payment service providers that offer payment accounts (PSPCP) may not carry out or facilitate operations with digital assets, including crypto assets, that are not regulated by the competent national authority and authorized by the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic (BCRA)”.
“The regulations, therefore, prevent PSPCPs from carrying out these types of operations themselves or offering to initiate them from their applications or web platforms,” they explained in the statement. And they added: “By offering or facilitating is understood the availability of automated purchase buttons for the user. Interested persons must carry out the operation on their own.
Within the statement they also remarked: “The measure ordered by the BCRA seeks to mitigate the risks that operations with these assets could generate for users of financial services and the national payment system. This standard equates the rules that PSPCPs and financial institutions must comply with. The latter already have a restriction of the same tenor since May 2022, disseminated through Communication A 7506 ”.
Finally, they indicated: “In May 2021, the Central Bank and the National Securities Commission (CNV) published an alert in order to provide information on possible implications and risks that crypto assets may entail, as well as recommend a prudent attitude in order to mitigate a potential source of vulnerability for users and investors”.
For more information on the official statement published by the BCRA, you can click here.
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