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 <p style="margin: 0 0 10px; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 1px; text-transform: uppercase; color: #3b82f6;">Key Takeaways</p>
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  <li style="margin-bottom: 6px;">Ripple National Trust Bank won final OCC approval</li>
  <li style="margin-bottom: 6px;">It will manage RLUSD reserves as holders’ trustee</li>
  <li style="margin-bottom: 6px;">A New York trust company still issues RLUSD</li>
  <li>Ripple joins BitGo and Circle with final charters</li>
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<p>The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency granted the approval on October 26, <a href="https://ripple.com/ripple-press/ripple-receives-final-occ-approval-to-establish-national-trust-bank/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Ripple said</a>, roughly ten months after conditionally approving the bank in December 2025.</p>
<h2 id="from-conditional-approval-to-an-opening-date">From conditional approval to an opening date</h2>
<p>Final approval completes the organizing stage, but Ripple National Trust Bank, or RNTB, is not yet open. Ripple describes its custody services as starting once the bank opens and says it will keep working with regulators as operations begin. It has not given a date.</p>
<p>Ripple was one of <a href="https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/12/12/five-crypto-firms-step-closer-to-become-a-bank-including-ripple-circle-fidelity" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">five crypto firms the OCC conditionally approved</a> in December 2025. Circle and Ripple applied for new national trust banks, while BitGo, Fidelity Digital Assets and Paxos sought to convert existing state charters. BitGo and Circle reached final approval first, making Ripple’s the second newly built bank from the group to clear the process. Before that round, Anchorage Digital was the only crypto firm holding a national trust charter.</p>
<h2 id="who-does-what-for-rlusd">Who does what for RLUSD</h2>
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    <th style="padding: 10px 12px;" scope="col">Entity</th>
    <th style="padding: 10px 12px;" scope="col">Supervisor</th>
    <th style="padding: 10px 12px;" scope="col">Role for RLUSD</th>
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    <td style="padding: 10px 12px;"><strong>Standard Custody &amp; Trust Company</strong></td>
    <td style="padding: 10px 12px;">New York DFS</td>
    <td style="padding: 10px 12px;">Issues the stablecoin</td>
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    <td style="padding: 10px 12px;"><strong>BNY</strong></td>
    <td style="padding: 10px 12px;">Federal bank regulators</td>
    <td style="padding: 10px 12px;">Primary reserve custodian</td>
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    <td style="padding: 10px 12px;"><strong>Ripple National Trust Bank</strong></td>
    <td style="padding: 10px 12px;">OCC</td>
    <td style="padding: 10px 12px;">Manages the segregated reserves and acts as collateral trustee for holders, once open</td>
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<p>Issuance stays in New York. Circle made the same choice: <a href="https://www.theblock.co/post/407876/stablecoin-firm-circle-wins-final-occ-approval-to-open-national-trust-bank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">USDC issuance is moving to a New York limited-purpose trust company</a> rather than Circle’s national trust bank. Ripple’s announcement does not explain its reasoning.</p>
<p>The trustee role is the one holders should watch. A collateral trustee holds rights over assets on behalf of the people they secure, in this case RLUSD holders, and RNTB will owe those duties as an OCC-supervised fiduciary. Ripple has not yet published the trust terms, including how holders would claim the reserves if the issuer ran into trouble.</p>
<p>The charter has limits. A national trust bank is restricted to fiduciary work such as custody and trustee services, so RNTB will not take deposits or make loans like a commercial bank.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
 <p>Big news heading into @RippleSwell: the @USOCC has granted final approval for Ripple National Trust Bank.</p>
 <p>This gives Ripple a federally supervised platform to support $RLUSD and provide digital asset custody to enterprises.</p>
 <p>We’ve always said crypto and banks work better together — this is what that looks like. Real innovation, real accountability, federal oversight.</p>
 <p>The revolution isn’t happening outside the system. It’s happening from within it.</p>
 <p>— Brad Garlinghouse (@bgarlinghouse) <a href="https://x.com/bgarlinghouse/status/2114860293859778775?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">October 26, 2026</a></p>
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<h2 id="what-rlusd-gets-out-of-it">What RLUSD gets out of it</h2>
<p>RLUSD reached a $2.5 billion market value less than two years after its December 2024 launch. Ripple uses it across its payments network and as collateral in Ripple Prime, its prime brokerage, and publishes monthly third-party attestations of supply and reserves. It says those reserves are held in U.S. dollar deposits, Treasuries and cash equivalents.</p>
<p>For an institution vetting the token, the change is a second supervisor. New York regulators oversee the issuer, and the OCC will oversee the entity that manages the reserves and holds them in trust for holders. Ripple ties that setup to the federal stablecoin framework the U.S. is still implementing under the GENIUS Act. It is a different product from <a href="https://coindoo.com/jpmorgan-brings-bank-deposits-to-ethereums-tokenized-markets/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">JPMorgan’s JPM Coin</a>, a tokenized bank deposit open only to approved clients.</p>
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<h2 id="where-xrp-fits">Where XRP fits</h2>
<p>Nothing in RNTB’s approved activities names XRP, the XRP Ledger or XRP-based settlement. The plan covers RLUSD reserves, the trustee role and fiduciary custody.</p>
<p>Custody is the one point of contact. Once the bank opens, institutional clients that hold XRP could keep it there, but that is safekeeping rather than new demand. A direct link would need a product that uses XRP or XRPL liquidity, such as the ledger-level work in <a href="https://coindoo.com/xrp-ledger-enters-brazils-fund-system/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">CSD BR’s Brazilian fund-recordkeeping pilot</a>.</p>
<p>Three things will show what the charter is worth in practice: an opening date for RNTB, its first custody clients, and whether RLUSD’s monthly attestations begin naming the bank in the reserve chain.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>This article is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal, financial or investment advice. Regulatory approvals, product availability and institutional adoption may change over time.</em></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://coindoo.com/ripple-gets-a-bank-and-its-working-for-rlusd-not-xrp/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Ripple Gets a Bank and It’s Working for RLUSD, Not XRP</a> appeared first on <a href="https://coindoo.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Coindoo</a>.</p>

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