Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said the company refused to apply for an EU MiCA license because of the rule forcing major stablecoin issuers to hold 60% of reserves in commercial bank deposits.
The remarks follow a push by the ECB and other EU central banks to scrap that same rule, citing the risk that volatile stablecoin deposits expose banks to sudden withdrawals - the change hasn't been adopted yet.
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