Morgan Stanley Seeks OCC Trust Charter for Crypto Custody Arm
Morgan Stanley has applied for a national trust bank charter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC),...
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South Korea’s National Tax Service Publishes Seed Phrase Photo, Sparks Wallet Breach
South Korea’s National Tax Service (NTS) accidentally published a cryptocurrency wallet’s recovery phrase in a Feb. 26 press release, enabling...
El Salvador Finalizes Bitcoin Diploma 2.0 Educational Program
The National Bitcoin Office of El Salvador announced that this new educational program will be implemented during the upcoming school...
Stripe’s Bridge Receives Conditional Approval to Organize National Trust Bank
Bridge, a Stripe company, obtains conditional OCC approval to organize a federally chartered national trust bank to offer stablecoin and...
Senator Warren Calls on Bessent to Review $500M WLFI Deal Over Security Risks
Two U.S. Senators have urged Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to launch a national security review into a $500 million foreign...
China Plans Blockchain Integration in Unified National Electricity Market by 2030
China’s State Council has issued new implementation guidelines to accelerate the creation of a unified national electricity market, with a...
Brazil Proposes National Bitcoin Reserve, Targets 1 Million BTC Over Five Years
Brazilian lawmakers have reintroduced a bill to create a national Strategic Sovereign Bitcoin Reserve, known as RESBit, proposing the gradual...
Paypal Study Highlights Growth of Cryptocurrency Payments in the US
A new study by Paypal and the National Cryptocurrency Association (NCA) shows that cryptocurrency payments have grown to be more...
Latam Powerhouse Nu Receives Approval to Launch Digital Bank in the US
Nu, the Latam-focused neobank, has reached a milestone by receiving a conditional approval to establish a national bank in the...
Latam Powerhouse Nu Receives Approval to Launch Digital Bank in the US
Nu, the Latam-focused neobank, has reached a milestone by receiving a conditional approval to establish a national bank in the...
174 Americans Hit in $36.9M Crypto Scam as DOJ Hands Prison Sentence
A U.S. court sentenced Jingliang Su, a 45-year-old Chinese national, to 46 months in federal prison for laundering more than...
Kazakhstan allocates $350M from sovereign wealth fund to crypto reserve
Kazakhstan has set aside $350 million from the National Fund of the Republic of Kazakhstan to support the formation of...
Crypto Payments Surge: Paypal Finds 39% of US Merchants Now Accept Digital Assets
A Paypal and National Cryptocurrency Association survey finds 39% of U.S. merchants accept crypto and 84% expect common use within...
Laser Digital seeks US bank charter amid regulatory thaw under Trump-era OCC
Laser Digital, Nomura’s crypto arm, has applied for a national trust bank charter with the US OCC to launch federally...
