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🗓️ 26 May 2023
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A Consensus 2023 panel with Caitlin Long, Richard Booth and Oliver von Landsberg-Sadie.
The demise of three crypto-friendly banks, along with not-so-subtle pressure from U.S. regulators, exacerbated a longstanding problem. Ever since the early days of bitcoin, startups in the field struggled to obtain or keep basic bank accounts as traditional financial institutions feared regulatory and reputational consequences from associating with anything “crypto”-coded. Industry veterans discuss this perennial challenge and possible solutions.
Michael Casey, CoinDesk’s chief content officer, moderates alongside panelists:
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0:00.0 | So I don't know if you guys were, if you were paying attention. |
0:19.0 | It's actually not that easy sitting back there to hear here, but there was a question |
0:24.4 | in that list there about the number of people in the crypto community businesses that |
0:31.1 | had had trouble getting a bank account. |
0:33.8 | And if you added the yeses with the prefer not to say answer, it exceeded the nose. |
0:41.3 | So clearly there has been some impact. |
0:44.3 | I mean, it does feel as if this is a real thing, at least according to the consensus, you know, contributors to that survey. |
0:53.3 | So I suppose I just like just start with that maybe. |
0:57.2 | How real is this as a problem? |
0:59.5 | You have a very specific story, Caitlin. |
1:01.0 | So why don't I go to you, Rich, and just take it from there? |
1:03.5 | It's a huge problem. |
1:05.3 | The events of the last six months, |
1:07.4 | I've really put the damper on entities wanting to bank this space, but it's a legal |
1:12.6 | business. And I think that every business in this country is entitled to access to banking rails. |
1:18.7 | The regulation, I think, needs to be matured. Congress has clearly advocated what they're |
1:24.9 | supposed to be doing, and the regulators are struggling to keep up. |
1:28.3 | And as a result, the financial institutions, a lot of them are taking a step back and trying to figure out the landscape. |
1:34.3 | And that's the part of the job of a good compliance officer to help them figure that out. |
1:38.3 | And you'll give us an international perspective here, Oliver, I assume. |
1:42.3 | So what do you see as sort of either looking at the U.S. or the broader picture around the world? |
1:48.1 | I mean, it has taken this crisis to shine a really bright light on just how valuable and rare that piece of infrastructure is. |
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