{"id":81001,"date":"2026-04-15T10:01:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T10:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=81001"},"modified":"2026-04-15T10:01:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T10:01:34","slug":"aba-challenges-white-house-report-on-stablecoins-flags-major-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=81001","title":{"rendered":"ABA Challenges White House Report On Stablecoins, Flags Major Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The American Bankers Association (ABA) is pushing back against the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) stablecoin report tied to the long-awaited CLARITY Act, arguing that the debate is being framed in a way that misses the real policy risk.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The ABA\u2019s objection centers on the CEA\u2019s analysis<\/a> of stablecoin rewards\u2014specifically, the idea that prohibiting yield on certain stablecoins would have little effect on bank lending or the broader credit market.<\/p>\n

ABA Pushes Back On CLARITY Act Analysis<\/h2>\n

According to the American Bankers Association\u2019s statement released on Monday, April 13, the \u201clive\u201d question for policymakers is not whether banning yield on payment stablecoins would change lending in the near term.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Instead, the ABA says the central concern is what happens if yield on payment stablecoins is allowed\u2014particularly whether it would encourage deposit flight, with the potential for deposit outflows to accelerate from community banks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The ABA argues <\/a>that by concentrating on the effects of a prohibition, the CEA paper creates a \u201cmisleading sense of reassurance\u201d while sidestepping the more consequential outcome: yield-paying payment stablecoins growing quickly.<\/p>\n

In its critique, the country\u2019s oldest national trade association pointed to the CEA\u2019s headline conclusion, which it characterized as an estimate that prohibiting yield would increase bank lending by about $1.2 billion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The ABA responded that even if the direction of the estimates were correct, the figure is essentially a \u201crounding error\u201d compared with typical quarterly shifts in bank lending<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The association argued that even a directionally correct result still does not answer the key question policymakers need answered: what would be the lending and funding-cost impact of allowing yield as stablecoins expand from today\u2019s market to a much larger one.<\/p>\n

Stablecoin Sector To Surpass $1 Trillion?<\/h2>\n

The ABA emphasized why the size of the market matters. It said the baseline used in the CEA paper\u2014described as an immature stablecoin market<\/a> of roughly $300 billion\u2014does not match the likely future scale.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The ABA argued that when the stablecoin market grows to a projected range of $1\u2013$2 trillion, yield would not be a minor feature. Instead, it would be the \u201cmechanism\u201d that could speed up migration out of bank deposits.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In that larger-market context, the ABA said the credit effects could become economically meaningful even at the level of individual states. It cited its own analysis suggesting a $4\u2013$8 billion reduction<\/a> in lending in, for example, a single state like Iowa.<\/p>\n

The Association concluded by warning policymakers not to take comfort from a study showing that prohibiting stablecoin yield might have a small near-term effect on aggregate lending. The association said that it is not the contested scenario.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The contested scenario, according to the ABA, is whether allowing yield on payment stablecoins would accelerate deposit migration\u2014again, especially from community banks\u2014ultimately raising banks\u2019 funding costs and reducing local credit availability.<\/p>\n

\"Stablecoin\"<\/p>\n

Featured image from OpenArt, chart from TradingView.com\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The American Bankers Association (ABA) is pushing back against the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) stablecoin report tied to the long-awaited CLARITY Act, arguing that the debate is being framed in a way that misses the real policy risk.\u00a0 The ABA\u2019s objection centers on the CEA\u2019s analysis of stablecoin rewards\u2014specifically, the idea that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-81001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}