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  "title": "Capital Flow Management Measures in the Digital Age: Challenges of Crypto Assets",
  "publication": "FinTech Notes, May 10, 2022",
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  "summary": "Capital flow management measures (CFMs) can be part of the broader policy toolkit to help countries reap the benefits of capital flows while managing the associated risks.",
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      "heading": "Overview and purpose",
      "content": "- Examines how crypto assets could affect the effectiveness of capital flow management measures (CFMs) from a structural and longer-term perspective.\n- Emphasizes that CFMs typically rely on financial intermediaries verifying transaction nature and transacting-party identities, a practice challenged by crypto assets."
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      "heading": "Core findings on challenges posed by crypto assets",
      "content": "- Crypto assets have become a significant instrument for payments and speculative investments in some countries.\n- Crypto assets can be traded pseudonymously and held without identification of the residency of the asset holder.\n- Many crypto service providers operate across borders, complicating supervision and enforcement by national authorities.\n- Gaps in legal and regulatory frameworks compound the challenges posed by crypto-asset attributes.\n- These features undermine standard CFM implementation mechanisms that depend on identity and residency verification by intermediaries."
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      "heading": "Policy implications and recommended strategy",
      "content": "- Preserve the effectiveness of CFMs against crypto-related challenges through a multifaceted strategy that includes:\n  - Clarifying the legal status of crypto assets and ensuring that CFM laws and regulations cover them.\n  - Devising a comprehensive, consistent, and coordinated regulatory approach to crypto assets and applying it effectively to CFMs.\n  - Establishing international collaborative arrangements for supervision of crypto assets.\n  - Addressing data gaps and leveraging technology (regtech and suptech) to create anomaly-detection models and red-flag indicators that will allow for timely risk monitoring and CFM implementation."
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      "content": "- Balance of payments\n- Central banks\n- Crime\n- Economic sectors\n- Financial crises\n- Technology"
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    "Authors: Dong He, Annamaria Kokenyne, Xavier Lavayssière, Inutu Lukonga, Nadine Schwarz, Nobuyasu Sugimoto, Jeanne Verrier",
    "Published: May 10, 2022",
    "Series: FinTech Notes",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400205880.063",
    "Examines how crypto assets could affect the effectiveness of capital flow management measures (CFMs) from a structural and longer-term perspective.",
    "Emphasizes that CFMs typically rely on financial intermediaries verifying transaction nature and transacting-party identities, a practice challenged by crypto assets.",
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    "Many crypto service providers operate across borders, complicating supervision and enforcement by national authorities.",
    "Gaps in legal and regulatory frameworks compound the challenges posed by crypto-asset attributes.",
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