FP Analytics’ Future of Money Power Map examines the economic, technological, and geopolitical forces driving transformation in the global financial system. Through a combination of various case studies and over two dozen leading economic, policy, and regional expert interviews, our three-part Power Map details emerging trends in private companies’ and governments’ approaches to digital currencies. These trends include challenges to the dollar system driven by sanctions overreach, the emergence of cryptocurrencies from the private sector, and government adoption of digital currencies and their underlying distributed ledger technologies.

Regulatory frameworks and approaches analyzed in Part II of this Power Map series have been collected in FPA’s Cryptocurrency Database, a navigable tool developed exclusively for FPA. This database is a comprehensive regional and country-level breakdown of cryptocurrency regulation across 117 countries. This searchable database captures regulations primarily concerning native cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, not CBDCs. For easy navigation, the database can be sorted by country, region, and whether cryptocurrencies have been banned. For a deeper dive into each country’s regulatory frameworks, relevant articles concerning the country’s mining, taxing, and other digital currency activities have been included.