The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), a federal banking regulator, has published a report on debanking. Debanking means banks limiting or cutting off financial services to customers. The report names digital asset activity as one of the factors that led banks to restrict services.
Crypto is not the only sector in the report. The OCC lists it next to activities tied to oil, gas and firearms. The report gives no specific cases of crypto customers or crypto firms losing bank access.
Cointelegraph reported the story on Oct 14, 2026. The article does not say which banks were involved or how many customers were affected. It also does not say whether the OCC plans to act on what it found. None of these points is publicly known yet.
For anyone already holding a perpetual position on Bitget, Bybit, MEXC or OKX, the report changes nothing directly. It is about US banks and their customers, not derivatives exchanges. It says nothing about funding rates, trading fees or liquidity on these four venues.
Source: cointelegraph — OCC report finds debanking efforts tied to crypto activities