Binance Security Breach: Consumer Exposure and Interim Safeguards Debate
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Binance Security Breach: Consumer Exposure and Interim Safeguards
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Lord Pitt-Watson (Lab)
The DIGIT is a digital gilt instrument which we are experimenting with. The hack, of course, was to an exchange, which is rather different, so I am afraid I do not have an answer to that question. If the noble Lord would like, I could write when the evidence is in about what happened on Binance and any relevance it might have for DIGIT.
Lord Fox (LD)
My Lords, to help the Minister’s bewilderment at my noble friend Lady Kramer’s question, he is right to say that Binance is not registered in the United Kingdom at the moment. But under the conditions of change, as outlined by my noble friend, there is every reason to believe that Binance or an equivalent organisation will be registered after the changes next year. Her question was: in the event of that, how would such a theft be dealt with? Would it be by the banks or the exchange, and where would the Government and the Bank of England sit in that position?