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Key Takeaways
- Regulators proposed requiring stablecoin issuers to run bank-style customer identification programs.
- The rule implements the GENIUS Act, treating issuers as financial institutions under the BSA.
- It targets account creation, issuance, and redemption, not every downstream transaction.
The Federal Reserve, FinCEN, FDIC, OCC, and NCUA jointly proposed a rule that would require Permitted Payment Stablecoin Issuers, or PPSIs, to establish and maintain Customer Identification Programs comparable to those banks and credit unions already run. In plain terms, that means verifying who their customers are, the know-your-customer and anti-money-laundering checks that have long been standard in regulated finance.
The proposal is part of implementing the GENIUS Act, the law that classifies stablecoin issuers as financial institutions under the Bank Secrecy Act. That classification is the hinge: once an issuer is legally a financial institution, the full apparatus of identity ...
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