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Jonathan Gould, a erstwhile apical authoritative astatine the bureau and ex-chief ineligible serviceman for Bitfury, is acceptable to tally the OCC arsenic Trump's pro-crypto policies emergence into place.
Jul 10, 2025, 7:02 p.m.
The U.S. Senate confirmed Jonathan Gould, a erstwhile elder enforcement astatine a blockchain exertion company, to instrumentality implicit the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency arsenic the banking bureau leans into President Donald Trump's directives to easiness the regulatory way for the crypto sector.
The Senate approved Gould successful a 50-45 ballot connected Thursday, further cementing the financial regulatory roster established by Trump. The erstwhile elder OCC authoritative volition instrumentality to tally the bureau that oversees nationalist banks, which has a mixed past connected integer assets issues.
In his erstwhile tenure astatine the OCC, Gould roseate to the relation of elder lawman comptroller and main counsel during the erstwhile administration, including a stint nether Acting Comptroller of the Currency Brian Brooks — a erstwhile crypto exec who sought to unfastened the doors to integer assets businesses seeking to participate the banking sphere, including shepherding Anchorage Digital to the archetypal crypto slope charter. Brooks departed and ran Bitfury, wherever Gould besides went to enactment arsenic main ineligible officer.
After Brooks, the OCC nether erstwhile President Joe Biden took a much cautious attack to crypto, joining different U.S. banking regulators — the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. — successful issuing restrictive guidance to banks seeking to bash integer assets business. The regulators are besides accused by the manufacture of getting insiders and businesses chopped disconnected from U.S. banking services.
Under the Trump administration, the crypto absorption from the OCC and others has present been reversed.
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Gould had a confirmation proceeding successful April, alongside Paul Atkins, who was confirmed earlier to instrumentality implicit the Securities and Exchange Commission. At the hearing, the lawmakers hardly delved into crypto matters, truthful Gould's circumstantial plans for crypto policies astatine the OCC stay unclear erstwhile he's formally sworn in, though he'd testified that he'd "absolutely" code the concern successful which manufacture unit faced "debanking."
Jesse Hamilton
Jesse Hamilton is CoinDesk's lawman managing exertion connected the Global Policy and Regulation team, based successful Washington, D.C. Before joining CoinDesk successful 2022, helium worked for much than a decennary covering Wall Street regularisation astatine Bloomberg News and Businessweek, penning astir the aboriginal whisperings among national agencies trying to determine what to bash astir crypto. He’s won respective nationalist honors successful his reporting career, including from his clip arsenic a warfare analogous successful Iraq and arsenic a constabulary newsman for newspapers. Jesse is simply a postgraduate of Western Washington University, wherever helium studied journalism and history. He has nary crypto holdings.
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