The U.K. takes it so seriously that it invested the Bank of England with the power to deflate any asset - price bubbles that it identifies as threats to the financial system. (canadianbusiness.com)
In 2013, the International Monetary Fund called on Canada to create a federal entity with a clear mandate to monitor threats to the financial system. (canadianbusiness.com)
Bitcoin is still too small a segment of the global economy to represent a real threat to the financial system if it crashes — cryptocurrencies» total value is about $ 500 billion, a small fraction of the roughly $ 70 trillion global GDP. (vox.com)