LexRegPulse Weekly - Sep 6, 2026
Alex: You're listening to the LexRegPulse Weekly for August 31 through September 6, 2026. I'm Alex.
Morgan: And I'm Morgan. Here's what mattered this week.
Alex: The OCC spent July and August saying no — Wise in July, Bunq in August. On Thursday it said yes twice, but not in the old binary way. Revolut got a conditional national bank charter, and the same day the agency approved OpenReserve, a blockchain-native de novo backed by a $25 million a16z-led seed round.
Morgan: The Revolut approval is the real story, because it's not a clean yes. Four product lines — including leveraged currency…
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