{"id":626734,"date":"2026-07-09T11:52:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T11:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/sony-bank-gets-us-regulator-nod-to-issue-stablecoins\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T11:52:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T11:52:57","slug":"sony-bank-gets-us-regulator-nod-to-issue-stablecoins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/sony-bank-gets-us-regulator-nod-to-issue-stablecoins\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Bank gets US regulator nod to issue stablecoins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/digital-bank-1.jpg\" alt=\"Sony Bank gets US regulator nod to issue stablecoins\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sony Bank received preliminary approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to establish a US stablecoin issuance business, with $40 million in starting capital.<\/p>\n<p>Sony Bank, a subsidiary of Sony Financial Group, said it&#8217;s received preliminary approval to establish a new US national trust bank subsidiary that will issue US dollar-denominated stablecoins.<\/p>\n<p>The new unit, Connectia Trust, National Association, gained preliminary approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) on July 2. <\/p>\n<p>It will be fully owned by Sony Bank and will support the issuance and management of US dollar-denominated stablecoins, according to a Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/contents.xj-storage.jp\/xcontents\/AS03447\/e3cff34e\/c195\/4974\/886b\/7e1836a2f7c0\/140120260706588168.pdf\">announcement<\/a> by Sony Financial Group.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/sony-bank-preliminary-approval-us-stablecoin-business\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Bank received preliminary approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to establish a US stablecoin issuance business, with $40 million in starting capital. Sony Bank, a subsidiary of Sony Financial Group, said it&#8217;s received preliminary approval to establish a new US national trust bank subsidiary that will issue US dollar-denominated stablecoins. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":626735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-626734","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\/626734","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=626734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}