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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is developing guidelines for tokenization of deposit insurance.
PANews, November 14 - According to a report by Bloomberg, the head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) stated that the agency is developing tokenization deposit insurance guidelines to assist financial institutions in expanding their digital asset business. Acting Chairman Travis Hill stated that deposits transitioning from the traditional financial world to the blockchain or distributed ledger world should not change their legal nature.
At the time Hill made this statement, all parties were debating a question: how should financial technology companies that are not directly covered by FDIC insurance fully compensate consumers for losses? Many financial technology companies collaborate with FDIC-insured banks to offer products that benefit from "pass-through deposit insurance" coverage, but once a partnered third party goes bankrupt, this protection may face challenges and be unable to effectively safeguard consumer rights. The U.S. government's deposit insurance fund is the cornerstone of the financial system, designed to protect depositors in the event of bank failures.

