Fed proposes GENIUS Act rules for stablecoin reserves and bank issuers
The Federal Reserve moved to set out proposed GENIUS Act rules for payment stablecoin reserves and for banks that want to issue stablecoins through subsidiaries. The proposals were released on Sep. 24 and are aimed at assets backing those stablecoins and the approval path for bank issuers.
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Banks that want to issue stablecoins, along with the issuers that hold reserves for payment stablecoins, are the groups that would notice this most directly. The new proposals set out what backs those tokens and how a bank issuer would move through the approval process, so those parts of the market would be watching the change in practice.
What changes in practice is the formal rule set around reserves and bank issuance, where there was not yet a final framework in these pieces. The broader handling of reserves, capital, and risk for U.S. banks and stablecoin issuers remains part of the conversation, even though the proposals do not by themselves answer every operational detail.
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