February 23, 2023

Agencies issue joint statement on liquidity risks resulting from crypto-asset market vulnerabilities

  • Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
  • Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

For release at 10:00 a.m. EST

Federal bank regulatory agencies today issued a joint statement highlighting liquidity risks to banking organizations associated with certain sources of funding from crypto-asset-related entities and some effective practices to manage those risks.

Recent events in the crypto-asset sector have underscored the potential heightened liquidity risks presented by certain sources of funding from crypto-asset-related entities. The joint statement highlights key liquidity risks and some effective practices to monitor and appropriately manage those risks. The statement reminds banking organizations to apply existing risk management principles; it does not create new risk management principles.

Banking organizations are neither prohibited nor discouraged from providing banking services to customers of any specific class or type, as permitted by law or regulation.

Media Contacts:
Federal Reserve
Chantel Gerardo
(202) 452-2955
FDIC
Carroll Kim
(202) 898-7389
OCC
Stephanie Collins
(202) 649-6870
Last Update: February 23, 2023