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The regulation of virtual currency in South Africa
Mini Dissertation (LLM)--Universiity of Pretoria, 2019.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/72651 The regulation of virtual currency in South Africa Van Heerden, C.M. (Corlia) u29277095@tuks.co.za Mukwehwa, Blessing UCTD Mini Dissertation (LLM)--Universiity of Pretoria, 2019. The new technologies has proliferated the global economy at a fast pace and proved to be a compelling alternatives to traditional methods of payment. A vital technological development in this process has been the emergence of virtual currencies (VCs). VC schemes are distributed, open-source, math-based peer-to-peer virtual currencies without a central administrating authority, monitoring and oversight authority. VCs has revolutionised the traditional payment methods. VCs offer many potential benefits, including costs, speed of settlement, global reach, and anonymity of the payer over their traditional payment counterparts. At the same time, it is these same benefits which pose as a source of risk to the integrity of the financial system. VCs are potential vehicles for money laundering, terrorist financing, tax evasion, fraud and other illicit activities. Risks to financial stability may eventually materialise as the use of VCs become more widespread. Given their novelty, the developing of effective regulatory responses is still in early stages globally. VCs exists in a heavily regulated environment and as a result regulators have been forced to address these challenges. Responses have included banning VCs totally, issuing warnings to consumers and clarifying the applicability of existing legislation to VCs. South Africa has not been insulted in mining for an effective regulatory responses. . In South Africa the SARB and National Treasury released position papers that cautions consumers on the risks of VCs. This dissertation considers the possible regulatory approach which may be adopted by the regulators in South Africa. Investigation the right type of regulations suitable in South Africa requires a comparative analysis with other international jurisdictions. Mercantile Law LLM Unrestricted 2019-12-13T08:07:19Z 2019-12-13T08:07:19Z 19/09/05 2019 Mini Dissertation Mukwehwa, B 2019, The regulation of virtual currency in South Africa, LLM Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/72651> S2019 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/72651 © 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
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| title | The regulation of virtual currency in South Africa |
| title_full | The regulation of virtual currency in South Africa |
| title_fullStr | The regulation of virtual currency in South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | The regulation of virtual currency in South Africa |
| title_short | The regulation of virtual currency in South Africa |
| title_sort | regulation of virtual currency in south africa |
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| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/72651 |