🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Bank group sues U.S. regulator over granting crypto trust charters
A banking group hassued the U.S. agencythat issues federal bank charters, accusing it of exceeding its legal powers in granting national trust-bank status to crypto firms.
The Independent Community Bankers of America filed alawsuitagainst the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in federal court on Friday, saying the agency is pushing "sweeping new powers to charter national trust banks that are not authorized by the National Bank Act," and they're letting these companies into the U.S. banking system without subjecting them to the same level of regulatory oversight that community banks face, putting those small banks "at a severe competitive disadvantage."
The ICBA is one of the largest banking advocacy organizations in the U.S., typically representing smaller institutions. It also played a significant role in pushing back against the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act that failed to advance in the U.S. Senate last month — in part due to the bankers' objections that its stablecoin provisions didn't protect them against direct competition with the deposit accounts that are core to their businesses. Now, the group is targeting the trust charters crypto firms are pursuing as an entry point into the U.S. banking and payments system.
"Congress did not create the national trust charter as a side door into the banking system for crypto firms seeking the credibility of a federal bank charter," ICBA President and CEO Rebeca Romero Rainey said in a statement, adding that the f...
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A banking group hassued the U.S. agencythat issues federal bank charters, accusing it of exceeding its legal powers in granting national trust-bank status to crypto firms.
The Independent Community Bankers of America filed alawsuitagainst the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in federal court on Friday, saying the agency is pushing "sweeping new powers to charter national trust banks that are not authorized by the National Bank Act," and they're letting these companies into the U.S. banking system without subjecting them to the same level of regulatory oversight that community banks face, putting those small banks "at a severe competitive disadvantage."
The ICBA is one of the largest banking advocacy organizations in the U.S., typically representing smaller institutions. It also played a significant role in pushing back against the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act that failed to advance in the U.S. Senate last month — in part due to the bankers' objections that its stablecoin provisions didn't protect them against direct competition with the deposit accounts that are core to their businesses. Now, the group is targeting the trust charters crypto firms are pursuing as an entry point into the U.S. banking and payments system.
"Congress did not create the national trust charter as a side door into the banking system for crypto firms seeking the credibility of a federal bank charter," ICBA President and CEO Rebeca Romero Rainey said in a statement, adding that the f...
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