RBI or Reserve Bank of India, India’s central bank, started a significant onslaught on the procurement and cryptocurrency trading like Bitcoin. RBI’s bi-monthly financial monetary plan, B.O Kanungo, Reserve Bank of India Deputy Governor decreed that entire regulated bodies of the said central bank are needed to end having business connection with entity dealing with digital currencies immediately and let go the current connections in a span of 3 months period.

This only means that this coming July 2018, India’s lenders and bank associations will no longer transact, deal or facilitate any transactions with individuals as well as companies locally and internationally which trade in virtual currencies or popularly known as cryptocurrencies.

The purpose behind the decision

In his words, Kanungo briefly summarized the reasoning after the order which efficiently shuts down or stop the trade of cryptocurreny in India, contending which digital currencies could seriously demoralize the anti-money laundering or AML as well as Financial Action Task Force of FATF frameworks, negatively impact the integrity of the market as well as the capital control, and once they grow further than a critical size, they could endanger monetary stability of the country, Kanungo added.

This isn’t the first time the Reverse Bank of India has pointed out its cautionary position on digital currency. This bank has issues many warnings over the previous five years, and when presenting the 2018 Union Budget in February, Arun Jaitley, Finance Minister of India, publicly stated, “this country doesn’t recognize digital currencies as officially permitted.

As a matter of fact, last couple of months, a lot of major credit card issues and banking institution in India which include HDFC, India’s biggest private bank, as well as Citi, India’s arms of multinational bank has also prohibited the application of their cards to buy digital currencies here.

The decision of Reverse Bank of India comes as governments all over the world are growing restrictions or warning on digital currencies. The truth that digital currencies are not regulated coupled with the considerable rice in the price of Bitcoin recently to virtually $20,000 in December last year escalated troubled worldwide that such digital currencies can be utilized to start all kinds of crime and wrongdoings; the whole thing from terrorism, tax evasion as well as money laundering.

A lot of banks in the United States prohibited the application of their credit or debit cards for buying digital currency. When a main center for crypto trading, China as well looks geared to a serious clampdown. South Korea and Japan as well are planning to ban the use of cards when buying crypto.

The government of South Korea hasn’t minced words regarding its aim to control the craze of crypto in their place, which often drives the prices of Ethereum and Bitcoin up to forty five percent which is higher than the universal norm. The government is paving its way to outlaw crypto trade, in an attempt to snuff out tentative overheating in world’s biggest markets for virtual coins.

Minister Park Sang-ki said, “We are drafting legislation that would shutter all virtual currency exchanges in our country, even though the president’s office stated that the verdict wasn’t yet established. The proposal for banning has taken it tolls on the market, with worldwide markets losing $106 billion.

Largest bank in Denmark Danskee is also prohibiting the crypto currency trading in spite of saying it stays optimistic over block chain. The forbid, like blockchain funding center forbid in China and other parts of the country resulted in the sell-off late.