[2026-02-27] The latest IT, economic, blockchain and coin news

The nation's top bank regulator refused Thursday to delay or deny a bank charter application from a President Trump-affiliated crypto company, even as an outspoken senator told him approving it would make him "an accomplice in his corruption." At a Senate Banking Committee hearing on prudential regulators, Ranking Member Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) pressed Jonathan Gould, Comptroller of the Currency, to either reject or pause review of World Liberty Financial's pending national trust bank charter....