{"id":95562,"date":"2026-02-10T07:33:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T07:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/reserve-bank-warns-south-african-crypto-investors"},"modified":"2026-02-10T07:42:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T07:42:58","slug":"reserve-bank-warns-south-african-crypto-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/reserve-bank-warns-south-african-crypto-investors","title":{"rendered":"Reserve Bank Warns South African Crypto Investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>South African Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago warned about the risk of the increasing popularity of stablecoins, saying there\u2019s a danger the cryptocurrency assets could \u201cbreak apart\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Central banks need \u201cto protect the oneness of money and the affordability of money to the public,\u201d Kganyago said Saturday at the 2026 Warwick Economics Summit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe truth of the matter is that these things could break apart,\u201d he added, in a reference to stablecoins.<\/p>\n<p>The use of stablecoins \u2014 digital tokens backed by assets such as US Treasuries to maintain parity with traditional currencies \u2014 has risen sharply in South Africa as a less volatile form of cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>The central bank warned in November that a lack of comprehensive regulations for the assets has emerged as a new risk to the country\u2019s financial sector.<\/p>\n<p>Kganyago also said that increased global uncertainty has underlined the importance of the various financial models used by the central bank. \u201cWe have got a suite of models,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Given the imposition of US tariffs and other changes in the past year, \u201cthis became very, very important\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">South-Africa<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. South African Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago warned about the risk of the increasing popularity of stablecoins, saying there\u2019s a danger the cryptocurrency assets could \u201cbreak apart\u201d. Central banks need \u201cto protect the oneness of money and the affordability of money to the public,\u201d Kganyago said Saturday at the 2026 Warwick Economics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":95560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[275],"class_list":["post-95562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-south-africa-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Reserve Bank Warns South African Crypto Investors - South Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"South African Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago warned about the risk of the increasing popularity of stablecoins, ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/reserve-bank-warns-south-african-crypto-investors\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Reserve Bank Warns South African Crypto Investors\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"South African Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago warned about the risk of the increasing popularity of stablecoins, ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/reserve-bank-warns-south-african-crypto-investors\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-02-10T07:33:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-02-10T07:42:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2026\/02\/sm_1770696738.291669.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/reserve-bank-warns-south-african-crypto-investors#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/reserve-bank-warns-south-african-crypto-investors\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Reserve Bank Warns South African Crypto Investors\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-02-10T07:33:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-02-10T07:42:58+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/reserve-bank-warns-south-african-crypto-investors\"},\"wordCount\":198,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/reserve-bank-warns-south-african-crypto-investors#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2026\/02\/sm_1770696738.291669.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"South-Africa\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"economy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/reserve-bank-warns-south-african-crypto-investors#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/reserve-bank-warns-south-african-crypto-investors\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/reserve-bank-warns-south-african-crypto-investors\",\"name\":\"Reserve Bank Warns South African Crypto Investors - 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