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The OCC granted final approval for Circle National Trust

Circle secured final OCC approval to establish a national trust bank, shifting its $73.2 billion stablecoin to a unified federal framework.

Circle Internet shares jump after the company says it won regulatory approval to establish a crypto national trust bank.

A federal banking charter sent Circle stock surging Friday, but with 69% losses over the past year and a rival stablecoin backed by Visa looming, the question is whether this rally marks a turning point or just a dead-cat bounce.

The approval places Circle's USDC reserve infrastructure under direct federal oversight and allows the company to offer digital asset custody services

On this episode of CoinDesk's Public Keys at the New York Stock Exchange, Jennifer Sanasie is joined by Two Prime Founder and CEO Alex Blume to discuss Bitcoin's range-bound price action, Strategy's accelerating Bitcoin sell-off, and why he's skeptical of the stablecoin consortium behind OpenUSD that knocked Circle lower. In a taped interview from the NYSE floor, Securitize CEO Carlos Domingo breaks down the company's NYSE debut under the ticker SECZ via a SPAC deal, its more than $400 million raise, and its move to tokenize its own common stock on the Solana and Avalanche blockchains. Plus, Lumida CEO Ram Ahluwalia makes sense of the macro picture — from MicroStrategy's shift from Bitcoin's marginal buyer to marginal seller and the bull case for Hyperliquid, to why he sees non-farm payrolls as "noise" under new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh. - Learn more at https://www.bullish.com/. - Register now for CoinDesk's Policy and Regulation event on September 22, 2026: https://policy-regulation.coindesk.com/. - To get market moving news delivered daily, download CoinDesk’s mobile app: https://linktr.ee/coindeskapp.

The Fed's anti-money laundering rules could strengthen Circle's core business.

Telcoin launched the first US onchain bank account tied to a regulated bank-issued stablecoin. Unlike Circle and Ripple, Telcoin operates under a full bank charter ...

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Bitcoin is trading at approximately $65,829 as Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh steps in to chair his first FOMC meeting. While traders analyzing whether the central bank will hike or hold this Wednesday have priced in a 3.50-3.75% rate hold at a 97.4% probability per the CME FedWatch tool, the true market driver remains Warsh’s impending forward guidance.

The US Senate has returned from recess with the Digital Asset Clarity Act at the top of the legislative calendar, and the bill’s most consequential provision is not market structure-it is the explicit prohibition on the Federal Reserve issuing a retail Central Bank Digital Currency. That CBDC block, if enacted, ...

President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order directing the Federal Reserve to review granting crypto f...

Crypto is moving deeper into the US financial system as Washington debates how far digital asset companies should be allowed to operate like traditional banks without becoming banks themselves. A growing number of crypto companies have secured or applied for federal trust bank charters in recent ...

Traders are trimming riskier assets as Middle East tensions, rising yields, and inflation concerns cool tech enthusiasm, today, May 18, 2026.

The benchmark US stock measures were pointing lower before the opening bell Monday as the US rejecte