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Story: Japan Geared Towards Global Cryptocurrency Payment System

By Dan Saada

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There was a sharp sell-off on Tuesday, and the Altcoins have recovered from the recent lows.

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The overall capitalization of the digital assets in circulation has gone up from $264 billion to $252 billion.  The overall trading volume is seen at $7.9 billion.

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Reuters recently published on July 18 that the push for the network has been motivated by the resolve of the Japanese government to combat money laundering effectively.

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Japan is geared to create a new global cryptocurrency payment system, which will be a lot similar to SWIFT.

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The Financial Services Agency, The national regulator of Japan and Japan's Ministry of Finance, proposed the plans for the network.

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An inter-governmental organization, which promoted the legal, operational, and regulatory measures are focusing on fighting money laundering on a global scale.

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While the US lawmakers grilled Facebook over its ambitions plan about its attempts to creating a digital currency based ecosystem, the G7 group consisting of the most developed…

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The G7 Finance ministers felt that severe regulatory problems should be worked out before the introduction of Libra.

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The G7 bloc includes nations like “Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.”

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A French official said, "Concerns (were) expressed by all the participants about the current situation and the need to act quickly."

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While there has been intense scepticism over the Facebook's cryptocurrency plan from financial regulators, politicians, and data protection activists, the prevailing concern…

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President Trump is also in the list of the concerned.  He tweeted in the past week, "will have little standing or dependability.

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Sherrod Brown, the Democratic Senator, stated, "Facebook has demonstrated through scandal after scandal that it doesn't deserve our trust.

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