One of Tether’s Bank Partners Caught Up in Assets Seizure

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Tether, the world's largest stablecoin issuer, remains dependent on intermediaries like Cantor Fitzgerald amid recent U.S. government seizures of bank accounts linked to a Sacramento company. These challenges highlight risks in Tether's financial transaction network.

On the surface, Tether, the largest stablecoin issuer in the world, might appear to be a formidable force in global finance. It owns more than $100 billion in U.S. Treasury bills, mostly held at Cantor Fitzgerald, the investment bank formerly led by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick. But a U.S. government seizure of bank accounts held in the name of an obscure company based in Sacramento, Calif., in recent weeks shows how Tether still relies on a web of sometimes unstable intermediaries to facilitate transactions, thanks to challenges it has faced opening accounts directly at major U.S. banks. And that has exposed Tether to problems at those intermediaries.