FDIC Denies Report Signature Bank Purchaser Must Divest Crypto

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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has denied a report that it would require any purchaser of Signature Bank to divest its crypto activities. nikhileshde reports

which said “any buyer of Signature must agree to give up all the crypto business at the bank,” citing two unnamed sources. An FDIC spokesperson denied this to Reuters.

While an FDIC spokesperson initially told CoinDesk they couldn’t comment, a different spokesperson later said in an email that “the receivership does not end until all the bank’s assets are sold and all the claims against the bank are addressed, and the acquirer decides the conditions of their bid.” The acquirer will tell the FDIC “what assets and liabilities from the failed bank it is willing to take,” the spokesperson said, citing the agency’s resolution handbook. The spokesperson also referred CoinDesk to two joint statements published by the FDIC, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve, which state that banks are “neither prohibited nor discouraged” from providing services to any sector.

Reuters reported that an FDIC spokesperson told the news service that “the agency would not require divestment of crypto activities as part of any sale.”Signature was seized over the weekend by the New York Department of Financial Services and turned over to the FDIC.

The FDIC is now looking to auction Signature and Silicon Valley Bank – another bank seized by a state regulator last week – possibly by the end of this week, Reuters reported.

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