The European Central Bank (ECB) asked this Monday to regulate crypto assets, whose dynamics are of such magnitude that the size of the market is now greater than that of the mortgage loans that caused the last financial crisis.

“We must deploy globally coordinated efforts to bring crypto assets into the regulatory arena,” Fabio Panetta, a member of the ECB board, said in a speech in New York.

The Bank of England (BoE) had estimated in March that the regulation of cryptocurrencies should be increased to prevent the growth of that sector from becoming a systemic risk.

The growing demand for digital assets and instant payments has produced an ecosystem of cryptocurrency creators and many middlemen.

Around Bitcoin, the most famous of cryptocurrencies, the size of the cryptoactive market “is now larger than the risky mortgage loan market was” when the “world financial crisis (2008)” was triggered, with a value of 1.3 billions of dollars,” Panetta stressed.

The growing demand for digital assets and instant payments has produced an ecosystem of cryptocurrency creators and many middlemen.

Around Bitcoin, the most famous of cryptocurrencies, the size of the cryptoactive market “is now larger than the risky mortgage loan market was” when the “world financial crisis (2008)” was triggered, with a value of 1.3 billions of dollars,” Panetta stressed.

These assets “engender instability and insecurity,” said the Italian banker.

That is why “we must ensure that (those assets) are subject to standards in accordance with those applied to the financial system,” says Panetta.

For that, regulators on the planet must “move faster” to ensure that crypto-assets “do not trigger an anarchic risk frenzy”, synonymous with “bubble”.