{"id":676486,"date":"2026-10-26T21:52:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T21:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/us-occ-calls-on-community-banks-to-become-payment-stablecoin-issuers\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T21:52:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T21:52:53","slug":"us-occ-calls-on-community-banks-to-become-payment-stablecoin-issuers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/us-occ-calls-on-community-banks-to-become-payment-stablecoin-issuers\/","title":{"rendered":"US OCC calls on community banks to become payment stablecoin issuers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/2026\/10\/01M5WZ9ZYBPWXY53Q33BECCJE8\/hi-coin-entering-bank.png\" alt=\"US OCC calls on community banks to become payment stablecoin issuers\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The announcement followed the banking regulator finalizing its rules for the GENIUS Act, a stablecoin law to be implemented in January<\/p>\n<p>The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has petitioned community banks to enter the payment stablecoin market as part of the regulator\u2019s rules on the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act.<\/p>\n<p>In a Monday X post, the OCC <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/USOCC\/status\/2114703676501574088\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> that it was \u201cencouraging the development of payment stablecoin capabilities within the community banking sector,\u201d citing its finalized rules for the GENIUS Act. The payment stablecoin law is set to be enforced starting in January, and the OCC <a href=\"https:\/\/ct.com\/news\/occ-finalizes-genius-act-rules-stablecoin-issuers-custody\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">finalized its rules for the bill<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInterested community banks are encouraged to consider applying to become, or for a subsidiary to become, a permitted payment stablecoin issuer, as applicable,\u201d said the US banking regulator.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/occ-community-banks-stablecoin-issuers-genius-act\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The announcement followed the banking regulator finalizing its rules for the GENIUS Act, a stablecoin law to be implemented in January The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has petitioned community banks to enter the payment stablecoin market as part of the regulator\u2019s rules on the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":676487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-676486","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\/676486","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=676486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}