Regulation & supervision
Gould: GENIUS rule lets community banks issue stablecoins via subsidiaries
AI-generated image- In remarks before the Ohio Bankers League on 27 October 2026, Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan V. Gould said that under the OCC’s GENIUS Act final rule there is a pathway for interested community banks to explore issuing payment stablecoins through a subsidiary.
- He said the requirements are meant to fit the size and risk of the issuer, and that the rule applies the same standards to bank and nonbank issuers.
- (OCC News Release 2026-94, excerpts of the remarks.)
Why it matters
The OCC is explicitly positioning the subsidiary route under its GENIUS Act rule as open to community banks, with requirements scaled to issuer size and risk, which gives smaller national banks a regulator-stated basis for assessing whether a payment stablecoin subsidiary is viable.
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More detail
Who is affected
Community banks interested in issuing payment stablecoins, and bank and nonbank stablecoin issuers subject to the OCC’s GENIUS Act rule.
Key dates
- Comptroller Gould’s remarks before the Ohio Bankers League
What remains uncertain
- The release gives excerpts of the remarks; it does not say when the OCC will begin accepting GENIUS Act applications.
Key facts
- Event
- Speech
- Jurisdiction
- US
- Source
- Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
- Source tier
- Tier 1 · Regulator / central bank
- Product
- Stablecoin issuance
- Regulation
- GENIUS Act
Institutions
How we verified this
The source says
“Under the final rule, there is a pathway for interested community banks to explore issuing payment stablecoins through a subsidiary.”
“And the requirements are meant to fit the size and risk of the issuer, not to be a one-size-fits-all compliance burden that only the biggest institutions can afford.”
“The rule applies the same standards to bank and nonbank issuers, so community banks are not asked to compete on an uneven field.”
Verbatim from Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, matched word for word against the live page on 31 October 2026.
Sources
- PrimaryOffice of the Comptroller of the Currency ↗2026-10-27T1Regulator
Evidence
- Confidence
- High Primary source (regulator / official record); quote string-matched against the live page.
- Quote verified
- 2026-10-31 20:46 UTC
- Archived snapshot
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8bf9238cc65732ed…· fetched 2026-10-28 · Wayback Machine copy ↗ - Source type
- Primary Office of the Comptroller of the Currency ↗
Change log (1)
- 2026-10-28 Published
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