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The US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce just warned the Clarity Act could drain $1.3 trillion in bank deposits and kill $850 billion in loans to small businesses and communities. This is the most important objection to crypto regulation that nobody is discussing.
5 million Hispanic-owned businesses. Represented by one organization. Sending a warning to Congress at exactly the moment senators are advancing the Clarity Act.
And the warning is not about crypto being criminal or volatile or speculative.
It is about what happens to community banks when deposits leave.
Community banks are not JPMorgan. They do not have trillion dollar balance sheets, investment banking divisions, or fee income that survives a deposit exodus. Community banks lend locally. They fund the small business loan that opens the restaurant. The line of credit that keeps the construction company running. The mortgage that lets a first generation homeowner buy a house.
All of that lending depends on deposits staying in the bank.
If stablecoins offer higher yields, better accessibility, and faster settlement than a savings account, depositors move money. Rationally. Individually. Each decision makes sense.
Collectively, $1.3 trillion in deposits moving to stablecoins removes $850 billion in lending capacity from the communities that need it most.
JPMorgan, Citi, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo are building their own tokenized deposit networks. They survive the stablecoin era because they have scale and alternatives.
The community bank serving a Hispanic neighborhood in San Antonio or a rural county in Georgia does not have those options.
Senator Lummis said clear rules protect every American who wants to participate in this economy.
The USHCC just pointed out which Americans might get hurt by those same rules.
Both things can be true at once.
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