By Neil Roland ( August 19, 2025, 22:45 GMT | Insight) -- The US Federal Reserve should consider allowing its staff to hold “de minimis” amounts of cryptocurrency or other digital assets so employees can gain a working understanding of their underlying functionality, said Michelle Bowman, the Fed’s top banking regulator.The US Federal Reserve should consider allowing its staff to hold “de minimis” amounts of cryptocurrency or other digital assets so employees can gain a working understanding of their underlying functionality, said Michelle Bowman, the Fed’s top banking regulator. “I certainly wouldn't trust someone to teach me to ski if they'd never put on skis, regardless of how many books and articles they have read, or even wrote, about it,” she said in a speech* today....
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