OCC Says 23 of 40 New Bank Charter Bids Involve Digital Assets
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Updated · Markets Media · Aug 20
OCC Says 23 of 40 New Bank Charter Bids Involve Digital Assets
3 articles · Updated · Markets Media · Aug 20
Summary
23 of 40 new U.S. bank charter applications received since President Donald Trump took office include digital-asset activity, Comptroller Jonathan Gould said at the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium.
That share is more than half of all de novo applications and marks an eightfold increase from the four years of the Biden administration, according to the OCC.
Gould said digital-asset features are becoming standard in the pipeline of future applicants, with payment stablecoins increasingly built into business plans submitted to the agency.
By November, the OCC expects to issue a final rule under the GENIUS Act, which Gould said will shape supervision of what he called a new payment-stablecoin industry.
The agency framed that work as part of the administration's push to expand the economy and position the U.S. at the center of digital-currency development.