OCC confirma que los bancos pueden llevar a cabo operaciones de encriptación y eliminar los requisitos adicionales de aprobación

Wu learned that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) of the United States issued Interpretive Letter 1183, reiterating that the federal banking system can engage in activities such as asset custody, specific stablecoin transactions, distributed ledger node validation, and removing the requirement for banks to obtain regulatory non-objection before participating in related businesses. Acting Comptroller Rodney E. Hood stated that the OCC requires banks to maintain the same risk management standards as traditional businesses when engaging in new activities, while reducing the compliance burden for banks involved in encryption operations. The OCC also withdrew the statement on the risks of encryption assets to the banking industry previously issued jointly with other institutions.