Basel Committee suggests introducing maturity limits for stablecoin reserve assets
Should longer-term assets be allowed as reserve assets, the committee thinks these must overcollateralize the claims of stablecoin holders.
In a consultative document published on Dec. 14, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) proposed several measures on targeted adjustment to its standard on banks’ exposure to crypto assets.
The document is the result of the review work conducted during 2023, which helped the committee formulate amendments to its original prudential standards for banks’ exposure to stablecoins published in December 2022.
Proposed changes relate primarily to the composition of the reserve assets of stablecoins, specifically for crypto assets classified under Group 1b in the prudential standards, “subject to capital requirements based on the risk weights of underlying exposures.”
