{"id":15166,"date":"2026-02-21T21:48:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T21:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/15166\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T21:48:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T21:48:29","slug":"basel-committee-considering-revisiting-bank-crypto-rules-re-stablecoins-report-ledger-insights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/15166\/","title":{"rendered":"Basel Committee considering revisiting bank crypto rules re stablecoins &#8211; report &#8211; Ledger Insights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-10-31\/stablecoin-surge-prompts-review-of-new-global-bank-crypto-rules?srnd=phx-crypto\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg<\/a> has reported that the Basel Committee is considering changes to crypto rules for banks, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ledgerinsights.com\/stablecoins\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stablecoins<\/a> as a key focus. On multiple occasions this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ledgerinsights.com\/iif-gfma-trade-bodies-urge-basel-committee-to-revisit-crypto-rules-again\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">industry associations<\/a> representing financial institutions have requested the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pro.ledgerinsights.com\/tag\/basel-committee\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Basel Committee<\/a>\u00a0on Banking Supervision (BCBS) to amend the rules. The rules were already updated in 2024 and the start date was previously postponed by a year to January 2026. <\/p>\n<p>One of the key issues is the treatment of permissionless blockchains, which results in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ledgerinsights.com\/stablecoins\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stablecoins<\/a> or other tokenized traditional assets being treated the same as high risk investments such as Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. In turn, this makes it expensive for banks to engage with permissionless chains. By contrast, tokenized assets on permissioned blockchains receive the same risk treatment as conventional assets.<\/p>\n<p>The United States is pushing for the changes. This is unsurprising given comments included in July\u2019s White House Digital Assets report: \u201cThe BCBS does not possess any formal supranational authority, and its decisions do not have legal force\u2026 It is important for the United States to lead in such international forums.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Article continues \u2026<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"70\" height=\"119\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/subscriber-padlock-small.png\" alt=\"subscriber padlock\" class=\"wp-image-39468\" style=\"width:55px\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);font-size:14px\">Want the full story? <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.ledgerinsights.com\/pricing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pro subscribers<\/a> get complete articles, exclusive industry analysis, and early access to legislative updates that keep you ahead of the competition. Join the professionals who are choosing deeper insights over surface level news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bloomberg has reported that the Basel Committee is considering changes to crypto rules for banks, with stablecoins as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8],"tags":[77,7022,7023,7024,7025,1899,7026,7027,7028,7029,7030,7031,7032],"class_list":["post-15166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basel","tag-basel","tag-basel-committee","tag-bcbs","tag-bis","tag-blockchain","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-digital-assets","tag-digital-currency","tag-digital-securities","tag-distributed-ledger","tag-dlt","tag-permissionless","tag-stablecoin"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}