OCC Conditionally Approves Bastion Trust Bank Charter

The Workplace of the Comptroller of the Forex granted Bastion conditional approval on September 18 to function as Bastion Platforms Nationwide Belief Firm, a non-depository nationwide belief financial institution centered on stablecoin providers.

The approval, set out in Company Determination 1391, lets the stablecoin infrastructure agency convert its New York state belief constitution right into a federal one underneath OCC Constitution #27198. The constitution is just not last: Bastion should nonetheless fulfill the OCC’s pre-opening necessities earlier than the corporate can start working underneath it.

Beneath the constitution, Bastion will provide stablecoin custody and wallets, fee infrastructure, fee clearing, minting, redemption and white-label stablecoin issuance from a single federally regulated entity. These providers additionally cowl fiat conversions involving compliant digital property equivalent to USDC. As a non-depository establishment, the corporate can’t settle for deposits or make loans and carries no FDIC insurance coverage.

Federal supervision sits on prime of the state licenses Bastion already holds. The corporate acquired its New York limited-purpose belief constitution in February 2025 by means of the acquisition of Dibbs Belief Firm.

Bastion CEO Nassim Eddequiouaq stated within the firm’s announcement that the constitution is aimed toward main monetary establishments planning stablecoin merchandise. “Stablecoins have moved from rising expertise into core monetary infrastructure, and that requires a special customary of belief, governance and regulatory rigor,” Eddequiouaq stated.

The OCC approved conditional belief charters for 2 different companies, Catena and Agora, the identical day.