## Capital Flow Management Measures in the Digital Age: Challenges of Crypto Assets

_FinTech Notes, May 10, 2022_

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## Bibliographic details
- 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

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### Overview and purpose
- 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.

### Core findings on challenges posed by crypto assets
- Crypto assets have become a significant instrument for payments and speculative investments in some countries.
- Crypto assets can be traded pseudonymously and held without identification of the residency of the asset holder.
- 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.
- These features undermine standard CFM implementation mechanisms that depend on identity and residency verification by intermediaries.

### Policy implications and recommended strategy
- Preserve the effectiveness of CFMs against crypto-related challenges through a multifaceted strategy that includes:
  - Clarifying the legal status of crypto assets and ensuring that CFM laws and regulations cover them.
  - Devising a comprehensive, consistent, and coordinated regulatory approach to crypto assets and applying it effectively to CFMs.
  - Establishing international collaborative arrangements for supervision of crypto assets.
  - 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.

### Subjects and topical focus
- Balance of payments
- Central banks
- Crime
- Economic sectors
- Financial crises
- Technology

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- Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT)
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- Bitcoin
- Blockchain and DLT
- Capital flow management
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- Capital flows
- capital outflow restriction
- CFMs
- crypto asset Adoption
- crypto assets
- crypto exchanges
- crypto-asset exchange
- digital currencies
- distributed ledger technology
- FINTECH note
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- Virtual currencies

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_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/fintech-notes/issues/2022/05/09/capital-flow-management-measures-in-the-digital-age-516671_