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Lorum files for US national bank charter

Lorum, a correspondent institution serving financial institutions has applied for national bank charter in the US in a move that the firm claims would pave the way for it to "retur...

Fintech Acquires National Bank Charter Through $130 Million Deal

Fintechs that have spent years renting balance sheets from partner banks just got a new playbook. On April 29, an online installment lender announced that it had agreed to acquire...

Unconstrained Banking (Stanley Epstein)

Introduction: The End of the Old Limits For most of modern history, banking resembled a carefully en...

Coinbase Wins Federal Trust Charter, Edging Closer to Bank Status

Coinbase just secured conditional approval for a national trust company charter in USA, allowing it to operate a federally supervised services. Continue reading at DailyCoin.

BSP eases bank credit risk transfer deal rules

THE BANGKO SENTRAL ng Pilipinas (BSP) is now allowing guarantees issued between a bank’s head office and its branches or between branches located in different jurisdictions to be u...

Banks push back on GENIUS Act rules as Agora races for a federal charter

Major US banking trade groups have asked the Treasury Department and the FDIC to pause three GENIUS Act rulemaking comment periods until the OCC finalises its primary stablecoin fr...

ICBA Opposes OCC’s Conditional Nod For Coinbase National Trust Bank Charter

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) granted Coinbase (COIN) a conditional approval for a national trust bank charter, a move that would place the crypto exchange am...

HSBC granted Hong Kong stablecoin issuer licence

HSBC has been granted a stablecoin issuer licence by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA).

Kraken parent company applies for OCC charter in move toward banking

The US banking regulator has already approved similar charter applications for Coinbase, Ripple Labs, BitGo, Circle, Fidelity Digital Assets and Paxos.

Mercury nabs conditional OCC charter

The fintech has received conditional approval four months after it applied for a national bank charter, when it named a SoFi alum as CEO of the proposed Mercury Bank.

Institutional Infrastructure Note: The Convergence of Pre-IPO Equity, Agentic Finance, and Neobank Charters

Paytm Payments Bank license revocation: Fate of 66K BCs in a limbo

RBI cited the Bank’s non-compliance with various Banking Regulation Act provisions for its action

Monument Technology partners with Castle Trust Bank for BaaS platform

Banking platform provider, Monument Technology, has today (24th April 2026) announced a partnership with Castle Trust Bank to deploy its Banking Platform as a Service (BPaaS), mark...

Coinbase becomes first major US exchange to win OCC trust charter — community banks call it a grave mistake

Coinbase has received conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for a national trust bank charter — a first for any major U.S. crypto exchange — as co...

Major UK bank could be scrapped this summer after 173 years on high street

The brand granted its first mortgage in 1853

HMT publishes Terms of Reference for the Access to Banking Services review

On 14 May 2026, HM Treasury (HMT) announced an independent review (the Review) into access to banking services and published terms of reference (TORs) for this review. Background H...

Coinbase receives conditional approval for US trust charter

Chief legal officer Paul Grewal announced the approval on Thursday, thanking OCC head Jonathan Gould, who took office less than a year ago.The US Office of the Comptroller of the C...

BSP allows direct currency withdrawals by banks during calamity, emergency situations

BANKS not registered with the Philippine Payment and Settlement System (PhilPaSS) Plus or the Integrated Currency Management System (ICMS) are now temporarily allowed to withdraw c...

Central Bank to launch Gift city branch next month: MD

The bank has received regulatory approvals from the Reserve Bank of India and the International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) to set up an IBU

Standard Chartered is the first global bank to integrate ICC Principles for Sustainable Trade Finance Framework

Standard Chartered today announced the integration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Principles for Sustainable Trade Finance Framework (PSTF) in its trade finance ope...

Coinbase Secures Conditional Approval for US National Trust Charter

Coinbase has managed to obtain a conditional approval for a US national trust charter.

RBI allows NBFCs, including gold loan companies, to open branches without prior approval

This move is to facilitate ease of doing business while ensuring necessary regulatory compliance, going by the Reserve Bank of India (Non-Banking Financial Companies – Branch Autho...

RBI allows NBFCs, including gold loan companies, to open branches without prior approval

This move is to facilitate ease of doing business while ensuring necessary regulatory compliance, going by the Reserve Bank of India (Non-Banking Financial Companies – Branch Autho...

Coinbase Secures Conditional OCC Approval For National Trust Charter – Details

Coinbase, the largest crypto exchange in the US, has achieved a major milestone after securing a key approval from the main banking regulator, which could unlock a broader market f...