press releases · February 22, 2023
Press Release
February 23, 2023
Agencies issue joint statement on liquidity risks resulting from crypto-asset market vulnerabilities
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
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Federal bank regulatory agencies today issued a joint statement highlighting liquidity risks to banking organizations associated with certain sources of funding from crypto-asset-related entities and some effective practices to manage those risks.
Recent events in the crypto-asset sector have underscored the potential heightened liquidity risks presented by certain sources of funding from crypto-asset-related entities. The joint statement highlights key liquidity risks and some effective practices to monitor and appropriately manage those risks. The statement reminds banking organizations to apply existing risk management principles; it does not create new risk management principles.
Banking organizations are neither prohibited nor discouraged from providing banking services to customers of any specific class or type, as permitted by law or regulation.
Joint Statement on Liquidity Risks to Banking Organizations Resulting from Crypto-Asset Market Vulnerabilities (PDF)
NOTE: This guidance/statement was withdrawn on April 24, 2025 and is no longer applicable. Please see here for more information.
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Federal Reserve (2023, February 22). Press Release. Press Releases, Federal Reserve. https://whenthefedspeaks.com/doc/press_release_20230223_agencies_issue_joint_statement_on_liquidity_risks
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@misc{wtfs_press_release_20230223_agencies_issue_joint_statement_on_liquidity_risks,
author = {Federal Reserve},
title = {Press Release},
year = {2023},
month = {Feb},
howpublished = {Press Releases, Federal Reserve},
url = {https://whenthefedspeaks.com/doc/press_release_20230223_agencies_issue_joint_statement_on_liquidity_risks},
note = {Retrieved via When the Fed Speaks corpus}
}