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U.S. Crypto Coalition Warns Bank Data Fees Could Cut Off Stablecoins and Wallets
Fintech and crypto groups are urging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop banks charging for consumer data access, saying the move would undermine open banking and disconnect crypto wallets and stablecoins from the U.S. financial system.
Oct 21, 2025, 9:00 a.m.
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What to know:
- A coalition of crypto, fintech, and retail groups is urging the U.S. consumer protection agency to maintain strong open banking rules to ensure consumer access to financial data.
- The coalition warns that big banks' efforts to charge for data access could stifle innovation and competition in the financial industry.
- Weakening Rule 1033 could leave the U.S. behind other jurisdictions with established open-banking frameworks.
A coalition of U.S. crypto, fintech and retail groups is uniting to defend open banking, warning in a letter that big banks’ attempts to charge for data access could choke off the connections between the financial system and digital wallets and stablecoins.
Groups including the Blockchain Association, the Crypto Council for Innovation, the National Association of Convenience Stores and the National Retail Federation have written to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) asking the regulator to preserve key protections in its pending Rule 1033.
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The rule would give consumers the right to freely share their financial data with third-party services, allowing them to connect bank accounts to crypto exchanges, stablecoin wallets and other fintech platforms.
The coalition said large banks are lobbying to narrow who qualifies as a consumer representative and to impose fees for data access. Those changes would entrench incumbents, weaken competition and cut crypto and digital wallets' links to the U.S. banking system, the group said.
"A strong open banking rule is crucial to a competitive, flourishing, and innovative financial services ecosystem," the letter reads. "Over the past decade, many of the financial innovations Americans use today were developed with the policy certainty that the United States was moving toward an open banking system."
While banks say that open banking would add costs for them, the coalition argued that these costs — like cloud storage and technology infrastructure — are routine and expected for any modern bank around the world.
The coalition warned that weakening Rule 1033 could leave the U.S. lagging behind other major economies such as the U.K., Singapore and Brazil, where open banking frameworks are already standard.
“Strong open banking rules are what keep the U.S. competitive,” the group wrote, urging the CFPB to finalize Rule 1033 “without capitulating to the largest banks’ attempts to tax access to Americans’ own financial data.”
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