Nubank wins conditional U.S. banking approval as regulators reopen door to crypto

Cryptocurrency & Free Speech Finance

Latin America’s largest digital bank has taken steps toward being able to offer crypto custody in the U.S.São Paulo-based Nu (NYSE: NU), which has 127 million customers, has received conditional approval from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to branch in the United States, the bank announced on ThursdayNubank said that once fully approved, the OCC would allow it to operate under a comprehensive federal framework, facilitating the launch of deposit accounts, credit cards, lending, and digital asset custody. It also said it has already begun working to establish hubs in Miami, the San Francisco Bay…

Campus & Education

California prohibits its teachers from talking about a student’s gender identity to their parents. That raises First Amendment concerns.

Can a state bar public school teachers from talking to a student’s parents about their minor child’s gender identity without the child’s consent? That’s the question presented by Mirabelli v. Bonta, an ongoing constitutional challenge to a California state policy that prohibits public schools from communicating with parents about their child’s in-school choices regarding their gender identity. In Mirabelli, parents and teachers challenged California’s policy on a variety of constitutional grounds, alleging it violated the teachers’ First Amendment rights to free speech, the teachers’ and parents’ First Amendment right to the free exercise of religion, and the parents’ substantive due process rights under the…

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