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ICBA President Rebeca Romero Rainey warned Kraken’s OCC national trust charter application creates “interconnected risks” to financial stability.Banks warn that stablecoin yield features could drain community bank deposits, threatening lending to small businesses and farmers at scale.Romero Rainey warned policymakers that together these moves create new channels for instability and could pull deposits away from community banks, cutting into lending for consumers, small businesses, and farmers.
CLARITY Act and Yield-Bearing Stablecoins Under FirePatrick Witt, the Executive Director of the President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets, responded to the ABA CEO’s letter on social media.
“I guess the White House was beneath them? In their defense, I wouldn’t want to have to defend their position in public either.”
