Bank of America Executive ser Crypto som aktivklasse: 'Jeg ser det slet ikke som konkurrence'

Bank of America Executive ser Crypto som aktivklasse: 'I Don't View It as Competition at All'

Bank of america’s chief operating officer does not see cryptocurrency as competition. Instead, he views it as an asset class, bemærker det “people like it for all sorts of different reasons.

Bank of america’s COO on Crypto: ‘I Dont View It as Competition at All

Bank of America COO Tom Montag talked about cryptocurrency Thursday in an interview with Chainalysis CEO Michael Gronager at a conference hosted by the blockchain analytics firm in New York.

Montag is also president of Bank of Americas Global Banking and Markets and a member of the companys executive management team. He is responsible for all of the businesses that serve companies and institutional investors.

He said cryptocurrency reminded him of derivatives in their early days. He also admitted that he does not understand stablecoins. “Jeg gør ikke’t understand that as well as everyone in the roomIs there really a dollar behind stablecoin?”

The Bank of America COO was also asked whether banks are competing with crypto. Han svarede:

Jeg gør ikke’t view it as competition at all. I view it as just another asset classand people like it for all sorts of different reasons.

The Bank of America executive is not the only one seeing crypto as an asset class. Rival investment bank marts said in May that bitcoin is an investable asset. Blockchain-baseret socialt netværk Viblos lancerer betaversion i marts said in July that a lot of its clients see crypto as an asset class that they want to invest in.

Commenting on whether bitcoin is a store of value, Montag shared: “I came around to how this could have value as a global store of value. Det’s hard to appreciate the importance of that as an American when youre used to having a stable currency.

As for the Federal Reserve launching its own central bank digital currency (CBDC), mente han, “It will be inevitable, but it will be fine.Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell sagde in September, “We are working proactively to evaluate whether to issue a CBDC and, if so, in what form.

Sidste måned, Bank of America debuted its crypto research, noting that digital assets aretoo large to ignore.” Banken’s dedicated crypto research team was established i juli.

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