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In the meantime, “banks will be required to hold a euro of own capital for every euro they hold in crypto,” Markus Ferber, the economic spokesperson for the parliament’s largest political grouping, said in a statement. “Such prohibitive capital requirements will help prevent instability in the crypto world from spilling over into the financial system.”