{"id":"tp-3420","type":"article-newspaper","title":"France mulls blocking Facebook's Libra project on European soil as FINMA chief weighs pros and cons of the cryptocurrency","author":"Charissa Echavez","publisher":"TOKENPOST Inc.","url":"https://www.tokenpost.com/news/regulation/3420","datePublished":"2019-09-13T09:08:13.000Z","dateModified":"2019-09-13T09:12:02.000Z","language":"en","abstract":"France warned on Thursday that it will block the development of Facebook’s cryptocurrency Libra as it is posing a threat to the “monetary sovereignty” of governments.","section":"Regulation","references":[{"title":"noted","url":"https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/09/12/france-block-development-facebooks-digital-currency-libra/"},{"title":"report","url":"https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/12/france-says-it-will-block-development-of-facebooks-libra-in-europe.html"},{"title":"newspaper","url":"https://www.nzz.ch/wirtschaft/wenn-der-schweizer-finanzplatz-noch-ambitionen-hat-muss-er-mit-aufmerksamkeit-leben-koennen-ld.1508040"},{"title":"register in Switzerland as a payment system,","url":"https://tokenpost.com/Facebooks-crypto-project-Libra-would-need-Swiss-payment-system-license-FINMA-3382"},{"title":"TokenPost","url":"https://www.tokenpost.com"}]}