Browsing: OCC

Key insight: With a proposed rule, OCC is codifying non-fiduciary trust bank activities.Processing ContentSupporting data: Trusts hold $2 trillion in custody assets already.Forward look: The proposal…

Conditional approval of a national bank charter used to be a virtual guarantee that an institution would open its doors. But the OCC’s recent treatment of…

Key insight: The OCC is proposing relaxing its toughest category of supervision, limiting the heightened prudential standards to only the very largest firms.Processing ContentSupporting data: The…

Key insight: The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency approved national trust charter applications for First National Digital Currency Bank, Ripple National Trust Bank, BitGo…

Key insight: The nine largest national banks scrutinized industries they feared could damage their reputations, according to preliminary findings of an investigation undertaken by the Office…

Key insight: The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. rescinded a 2013 interagency leveraged lending guidance, but left the door…

Key insight: The OCC is moving to ease money-laundering compliance burdens for community banks.Supporting data: New “Community Bank Procedures” take effect Feb. 1, 2026.Forward look: Regulators…

Key insight: Longtime OCC official Jason Sisack, who joined Carver Bancorp as a risk management advisor to CEO Donald Felix, said he views his new role…

Key insight: The OCC’s effort to hold former Wells Fargo executives accountable for the bank’s fake-accounts scandal — which relied on charges brought in the administrative…

Key insight: Bridge joins Circle, Ripple and Paxos in seeking a regulatory charter to serve customersExpert Quote: “We’ve long believed stablecoins will be a core, regulated…