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Carter: Foreign banks embrace stablecoins while US banks fear regulatory blowback

Nic Carter · Nic Carter talks crypto, meme coins, and the regulatory environment. · Mar 9, 2025 · at 20:27

Nic Carter contrasts international banking adoption of stablecoins with the hesitation of U.S. banks following government regulatory scrutiny.

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“The last bastion, those banks, the domestic banks, foreign banks are actually doing a lot of stablecoin stuff depending like look at SOS Gen or Standard Chartered tons and tons of stablecoin stuff. The domestic banks have PTSD from what happened over the last two years with Chokepoint. They are very afraid.”

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