Crypto firm Ripple has been granted conditional approval in its bid to secure a national trust bank charter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)—the US federal regulator that supervises national banks and federal savings associations. Ripple, together with four other crypto-related businesses, Circle, BitGo, Fidelity Digital Assets, and Paxos, won provisional agreement from the OCC despite opposition from Main Street banks. The OCC tentatively approved Ripple, creator of the