{"id":546002,"date":"2026-01-24T00:52:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T00:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/24\/trump-picked-occ-head-proceeds-with-consideration-of-wlfs-bank-charter\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T00:52:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T00:52:40","slug":"trump-picked-occ-head-proceeds-with-consideration-of-wlfs-bank-charter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/24\/trump-picked-occ-head-proceeds-with-consideration-of-wlfs-bank-charter\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump-picked OCC head proceeds with consideration of WLF&#8217;s bank charter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjYtMDEvMDE5YjlhOGYtZDUxZi03ODg2LTlkYmItOTM5MjEyZTcyMWIzLmpwZw==.jpg\" alt=\"Trump-picked OCC head proceeds with consideration of WLF's bank charter\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said no political or personal financial ties will impact the procedural review of World Liberty Financial\u2019s bank charter application.<\/p>\n<p>The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has knocked back US Senator Elizabeth Warren\u2019s bid to pause the review of World Liberty Financial\u2019s application for a national trust bank charter, a move she sought until US President Donald Trump divests his stake in the crypto platform.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The OCC\u2019s Jonathan Gould <a href=\"https:\/\/www.banking.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/occ_response_to_rm_warren.pdf\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed<\/a> on Friday that WLF\u2019s application will be evaluated under existing regulatory standards while emphasizing that no political or personal financial ties will impact the procedural review of the bank charter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe OCC intends to act consistent with this duty rather than your demand,\u201d he said in response to <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/warren-urges-occ-delay-world-liberty-bank-bid-trump-cuts-ties\">Warren\u2019s Jan. 14 letter.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/occ-to-still-review-trump-backed-wlf-bank-charter-application\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said no political or personal financial ties will impact the procedural review of World Liberty Financial\u2019s bank charter application. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has knocked back US Senator Elizabeth Warren\u2019s bid to pause the review of World Liberty Financial\u2019s application for a national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":546003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-546002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}