Crypto Trust to Convert to Bank, FinCEN Extends New Rule Comment Period
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The Anchorage Trust Company, a subsidiary of Anchor Labs, an advanced digital asset platform (Anchorage), secured conditional approval this week from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to convert to a National Trust Bank. As a trust company, Anchorage offers custody services related to transactions in digital assets and cryptocurrencies, as well as governance, staking and settlement services, and will continue to perform the activities of a fiduciary, agency or custodian post-conversion. As part of a conditional operating agreement underlying the conversion, Anchorage agreed to certain of the OCC’s risk management expectations as well as capital and liquidity requirements.