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by i2pi 3963 days ago
Money transmission laws are irrelevant in this case. Standard Treasury was never keeping customer cash on their balance sheet, they were enabling APIs for banks.

If you're a payments business and cash passes through your balance sheet, then transmission regs apply.

If you're moving bits, but not money, they don't.

And if you have a bank charter, or bank sponsorship, you're mostly exempt from them.

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"Standard Treasury was never keeping customer cash on their balance sheet"

It's worth asking why not. I think we know...

It's also worth pointing out that they were quite relevant for Simple (your company), which ended up in a similar position.