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Lee Reiners
Lecturing Fellow at Duke Financial Economics Center; expert in fintech, cryptocurrency, and banking regulation.
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Jun 25, 2026
Cutting Out the Middleman: Why Fintechs, Crypto Firms, and Payments Companies Are Seeking Their Own Bank Charters - Part 1
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Alan KaplinskyHOST
So, Lee, why is it that the trust company charts are particularly well-suited for crypto businesses? Is it because they prefer, if they could, to have a full-blown bank charter, but there's too many restrictions on what
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52:28Lee ReinersGUEST
they could do? Yeah, I mean, I think, well, it comes back to a lot of the reasons that we've already talked about, right? You know, so you don't want to be, you know, subject to the Bank Holding Company Act and restrictions on, you know, activities and things like that.
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52:46Lee ReinersGUEST
And so for those who aren't familiar, under Genius, there's essentially three pathways to become a permitted payment stablecoin issuer in the U.S.
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52:58Lee ReinersGUEST
That's not particularly attractive for these crypto firms because then that comes with Federal Reserve consolidated supervision.
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53:04Lee ReinersGUEST
We've already noted that another way is you could be a state qualified payment stable coin issuer.