Wu Shuo has learned that Laser Digital, the digital asset company under Japan's financial group Nomura Holdings, has received preliminary conditional approval from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish Laser Digital National Trust Bank. If ultimately approved, this entity will operate as a federally regulated trust institution, providing custody and management services for tokenized assets, digital assets, and traditional assets for institutional clients, and supporting businesses such as stablecoins, cross-border payments, and collateral management. According to disclosures, full approval depends on whether the company can meet minimum capital and other requirements, and the entity does not intend to engage in deposit-taking or lending activities.

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GasFeeGrump
· 06-02 09:13
Spanning from Asia to North America, Nomura's ambitions are quite significant, and the name Laser Digital also sounds quite sci-fi.
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SlothSignal
· 06-02 02:35
Nomura is trying to bring Asian experience to the United States?
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BluePeonyInTheDark
· 06-01 01:15
Federally regulated trust institutions, compliance premiums are at their peak, and institutional clients are probably lining up to talk.
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StargazerInTheWoods
· 05-31 17:14
There are more and more Frankenstein hybrids of traditional finance and crypto, and this time it's Nomura.
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AirdropLunchbox
· 05-31 02:35
Collateral management is probably very tempting for DeFi institutions.
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StardustRouter
· 05-31 02:17
The institutional custody track is getting more and more competitive—Coinbase Institutional should be nervous.
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NotYourExit
· 05-31 01:05
What is the minimum capital requirement? Curious about how many people this threshold can exclude.
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Stop-LossForBluePeony
· 05-31 01:00
If we’re not planning to do deposit and loan business, then most of the profit mainly comes from custody fees, right? The model has to be proven to work end-to-end.
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RugCheckSkeptic
· 05-31 01:00
Not taking deposits or making loans, solely doing custody and tokenization. This model is quite clever, avoiding the most troublesome part of bank licensing.
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PunkRiskMgr
· 05-31 00:56
Cross-border payments + stablecoins + collateral management, this business combination is clearly aimed at institutional clients.
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