Crypto-friendly bank Custodia announced Friday it’s now accepting dollar deposits—and will soon custody Bitcoin—for customers in select U.S. states. The financial institution is now also providing customers with U.S. government money market fund services.
What does this mean? “We got our bank regulator’s approval to take customer funds,” Caitlin Long, Custodia’s CEO told Decrypt. She emphasized that “The bar is very high for banks to launch, and we cleared it.”
6/ A new breed of bank has arrived for the US #digitalasset industry-one that’s tech-forward, treats customers w/ the respect you deserve & has a regional bank-style risk mgmt program. We took the hard path of becoming a regulated bank bc it’s the right thing to do for customers!
— Custodia Bank ™ (@custodiabank) August 11, 2023
For Long, despite the fact there is “a lot of regulatory theater in the industry,” the need for regulated custodians–namely banks–is the way.
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