Banks Make Killing Stablecoin Yields Their Top 2026 Priority

The American Bankers Association placed stablecoin rewards at the forefront of its 2026 policy agenda, escalating an industry-wide campaign against digital-dollar incentive programs that banks claim threaten deposit bases and community lending capacity. The trade group’s newly released Blueprint for Growth explicitly calls on Congress to “stop payment stablecoins from becoming deposit substitutes that slash community bank lending by prohibiting paying interest, yield or rewards regardless of the platform. ...