US House stablecoin hearing focuses on competing bills for regulation
The answer to the question of what level stablecoin issuers are regulated on “need not be binary,” one witness said. State versus federal regulation was a key issue in the hearing on stablecoin s in the United States House of Representatives on May 18. The House Committee on Financial Services’ new Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology and Inclusion heard testimony from five experts as it considered two proposed bills to regulate stablecoin s. There were two draft bills under consideration by the subcommittee. The Republican bill was published in April ahead of a hearing on stablecoin in the Financial Services Committee. Ranking member Maxine Waters later introduced a competing draft based on a bill that was introduced but not passed in the last session of Congress. #WATCH: Chairman @RepFrenchHill at today's stablecoin hearing: "Without action from Congress ... stablecoin issuers will not feel confident to build their projects in the U.S." Read more ht...