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OCC: Nine Major US Banks Restricted Digital Asset Firms on Reputational Risk

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said nine of the largest US national banks maintained policies that may have denied or restricted services based on political or religious views or lawful business activity, including digital asset firms, between 2020 and September 2025. JPMorgan, Bank of America, Citi, Wells Fargo, US Bancorp, Capital One, PNC, TD Bank and BMO were named in the review, which examined nearly 100,000 complaints and about 420,000 pages. OCC head Jonathan Gould said he was not confident the banks’ recent remediation was sufficient.

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The OCC's finding that reputational risk, not law, drove de-banking is a notable shift in how US regulators frame access to banking for crypto and other disfavored sectors. Naming the largest national banks matters because it signals supervisory scrutiny of internal risk policies, not just individual decisions. Gould's stated doubt about the adequacy of remediation leaves the question of enforcement or further corrective action open, and whether other regulators echo this posture is worth watching.

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