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Anchorage Digital, the first crypto firm with a national trust charter, has cut 17% of its staff, according to people familiar with internal discussions. It is shrinking while it holds new investor capital and competes with rivals that have since won similar charters.
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Community bankers sued the OCC, arguing it lacks National Bank Act authority for trust charters approved for 21 firms, at least 13 of them crypto companies. The charters matter most to stablecoin issuers seeking room above the $10 billion cap on state-qualified issuers.
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Anchorage Digital is cutting about 17% of staff, an estimated 68 jobs, eight months after Tether's $100 million investment valued it at $4.2 billion. That price covered a roughly 2.4% stake, and Anchorage's own 2023 record points to a cost cut it has reversed before.
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Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman says this year's eSLR changes freed as much as $5 trillion of headroom at primary-dealer holding companies. Dealers have used about $100 billion of it on Treasuries so far, and she concedes the reform's real test comes in a selloff.
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Stripe-owned Bridge is issuing the OUSD stablecoin on four blockchains, with reserves held at BlackRock, Lead Bank and BNY. Open Standard has not said how much has been issued, so its list of more than 200 partner businesses is the only size figure on record.
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Mission Lane won conditional OCC approval for a CEBA credit card bank charter, the first of its kind in two decades according to adviser Klaros Group. The charter lets the subprime lender issue its own cards and export its rates free of state opt-outs, but it bars the small deposits that let full-service banks fund themselves cheaply.
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Fed proposals issued Sept. 24 would set stablecoin rules under the already-enacted GENIUS Act, nine days after the Clarity Act stalled in the Senate. Clarity's unresolved jurisdiction questions still lack a statute, and the SEC's crypto task force leader, Hester Peirce, leaves Oct. 2.
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Three federal agencies moved on crypto rules within 48 hours of the Senate's 49-50 vote that stalled the Clarity Act. Only the stablecoin rules sit on a statute, so businesses using the SEC and CFTC relief hold permissions a later administration can withdraw.
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Federal Reserve proposals charge stablecoin issuers 2% capital on their first $20 billion, falling to 1% above $50 billion. Comments over the next 60 days are the main chance to contest a schedule built for operational losses before rules take effect in January 2027.
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World Liberty Trust Company won preliminary conditional approval for a national trust charter. Its business plan takes the issuing and custody role for USD1 away from BitGo.
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Comptroller Jonathan Gould put a number on where charter capital is heading, and promised final GENIUS Act rules by November, weeks before the law takes effect.
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The FDIC, Federal Reserve, OCC and NCUA want examiners looking harder at transparency, contract structure and technology inside core servicing deals. The guidance carrying that expectation is non-binding, with 60 days for comment.
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House Democrats led by Maxine Waters asked the FDIC and OCC for at least 120 days to review a 400-plus-page Community Reinvestment Act rewrite. For banks, how long the rule lasts matters more, since the OCC's last solo rewrite was rescinded by the next administration.
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Former Philadelphia Fed president wants examiners to use a 1962 law on AI vendors after the April 17 SR 11-7 rewrite excluded generative AI. The plan skips Congress but still asks for a new supervisory letter within 12 months, aimed at the few suppliers whose models many banks share.
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Federal Reserve proposals released September 24 let insured state member banks seek approval for stablecoin subsidiaries, with a $5 million capital floor. Wallet and software firms cannot apply on that route themselves, so access runs through a bank that controls the issuer.
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Shahen Minasyan, CTO at Twin Peaks Inc., argues that the FBI's $20.9 billion in 2025 reported fraud losses, up 26%, grew in places where identity controls did their job. Federal agencies say their own payments-fraud data is too fragmented to size that category.
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Bastion, Agora and Catena Labs won conditional national trust charters requiring $6 million or $10 million of working capital each, a low bar because trust banks do not lend. That makes eight such approvals before the GENIUS Act takes effect in January 2027.
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Bastion Platforms won preliminary conditional approval on September 18 to run stablecoin custody, fiat-to-USDC conversion and white-label issuance inside one uninsured national trust bank. The capital and governance conditions still have to be certified.
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Bastion, Catena and Agora are in the OCC's pipeline, and each is selling banks a federally supervised counterparty. The white-label stablecoins, AI-agent accounts and AUSD settlement come attached to the licence.
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The OCC has conditionally approved Bastion Platforms National Trust Company to issue, custody and convert stablecoins on behalf of clients, a fee business housed inside a charter that bars deposits and FDIC cover.
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