The Bank of Russia approved the offering of cryptocurrency-linked financial instruments to qualified investors.

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May 28, 2025

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The Bank of Russia said ‘financial institutions may offer qualified investors financial derivatives, securities, and digital financial assets whose yields are linked to cryptocurrency prices.’

On 28 May the central bank said that brokers and exchanges may offer non-deliverable derivatives and structured products linked to digital assets to ‘qualified’ market participants, provided no physical cryptocurrency changes hands.

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Week 22 of 2025