Bank of England Says Crypto Has Grown to Twice the Size of Subprime Debt in 2008

Bank of England Says Crypto Has Grown to Twice the Size of Subprime Debt in 2008
Crypto assets have grown rapidly from just $16 billion five years ago to about $2.3 trillion today, and thus could pose a systemic risk to the global financial system, the Bank of England said on Wednesday.While $2.3 trillion is small compared to the $250 trillion global financial system, it doesn’t take much to destabilize things. The sub-prime debt market was valued at around $1.2 trillion in 2008, just before the financial crisis, noted the BoE’s Jon Cunliffe, the bank’s deputy governor of financial stability in a speech.”In that case, the knock-on effects of a price collapse in a relatively small…