‘Exceeded its authority!’ – Banking group sues OCC over crypto trust charter approvals
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A banking trade group has sued the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency over approvals for national trust charters tied to crypto firms. The lawsuit challenges whether those charters should let crypto businesses operate through a path the group says sits outside the safeguards that apply to traditional banks.
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Banks and crypto firms are the sides watching this most closely, and the immediate effect is on the route crypto firms can use to get a national trust charter. If the challenge stands, the market will have a live dispute over whether that route remains available under the OCC’s current approvals. (per decrypt.co)
What changes in practice is that the OCC’s approval process is now being contested in court rather than accepted as a settled path. What does not change from these pieces alone is the existence of the national trust charter itself; the question is whether approvals for crypto firms can keep fitting inside it.
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