: Yellen warns crypto invites risks that could ‘disrupt the financial system and our economy’ in first major speech on digital assets

Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen is scheduled to deliver her first major address on the potential risks and benefits of the growing crypto economy Thursday at 10 a.m. Eastern time, and she is set to argue that financial regulators should take seriously the risks posed to consumers and the broader economy by digital assets.

“Digital assets may be new, but many of the issues they present are not,” Yellen will tell an audience at American University’s Kogod School of Business Center for Innovation, according to prepared…