FSC Statement on OCC Debanking Report — Free Speech Coalition

The US Workplace of the Comptroller of the Foreign money (OCC), a federal banking regulator, launched a report yesterday outlining the preliminary findings of its evaluation of debanking exercise by the most important nationwide banks. The OCC discovered that these banks maintained insurance policies that restricted or denied entry to banking providers to 9 trade sectors, together with grownup leisure, in obvious violation of the President’s Government Order barring banking discrimination towards these engaged in lawful enterprise actions. 

“The OCC report reaffirms what our trade members have been saying for years: banks are denying individuals engaged in lawful companies very important providers primarily based on stigma, not danger,” says FSC Government Director Alison Boden. “Debanking shouldn’t be a partisan situation and our capability to entry the monetary system shouldn’t be both. We’re grateful to the OCC for recognizing how systemic banking discrimination has affected a wide-range of industries and companies, together with ours. We look ahead to additional illustrating the extent to which these insurance policies affect the lives, companies and security of our group.”

FSC has labored diligently to name consideration to the problem of debanking, together with via its Monetary Discrimination within the Grownup Trade report, which discovered that greater than two-thirds of these working within the grownup trade, most of whom are particular person creators, have been the sufferer of discriminatory insurance policies and practices. Thousands and thousands of People now earn cash via grownup platforms and the lack of banking and different monetary providers will be devastating to their capability to pay hire, pay payments, make payroll or present for his or her households. 

FSC requests those that have suffered banking discrimination because of their grownup work use this kind to inform us their story in order that we are able to proceed to advocate for his or her rights.