Should stablecoin issuance be confined to FDIC-insured banks?

A recent report from banking regulators says the digital assets pose too big a risk to the financial system to be issued by state-chartered entities that don’t have deposit insurance. Stablecoin issuers and others reject that claim and say regulators are discouraging competition.

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  • John K. White

    John has been in communications since graduating from Creative Communications at Red River College Polytechnic in Winnipeg in 1992. He launched one of Canada's first digital-only local news sites called Winnipeg First in 2007, which led to digital editor postings with the Winnipeg Free Press and Edmonton Journal. In 2012 he joined Bankless Times as managing editor, later becoming president and CEO. He and the Bankless Media co-founders completed a sale and exit in August 2021.