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Bill To Make Facebook's Libra A Security Introduced At Comittee Hearing

Janelle Fox

Summary: On Thursday a bill to make Facebook’s cryptocurrency Libra a security was introduced by a team of bipartisan senators, according CNBC. At the committee hearing on the role of big data in financial services, Reps. Sylvia Garcia, D-Tex., and Lance Gooden, R-Tex., proposed the “Managed Stablecoins are Securities Act of 2019.” This bill will lead ...

On Thursday a bill to make Facebook’s cryptocurrency Libra a security was introduced by a team of bipartisan senators, according CNBC.

At the committee hearing on the role of big data in financial services, Reps. Sylvia Garcia, D-Tex., and Lance Gooden, R-Tex., proposed the “Managed Stablecoins are Securities Act of 2019.” This bill will lead to higher levels of regulation and scrutiny on the project, which Facebook has asserted is a digital payments system. 

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