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FinCEN has proposed a special measure that would bar US financial institutions from opening or maintaining correspondent accounts tied to Banque Misr's UAE branch, with Treasury documents estimating roughly $1.8bn in flows of concern, while the UAE and Egyptian central banks said on the 30th that the branch continues to operate normally. The channel to watch is dollar clearing and correspondent access: even a proposed designation typically triggers pre-emptive de-risking by global banks, which raises USD funding and settlement friction for Egyptian bank exposure and for UAE-routed MENA trade finance, and historically pushes cross-border settlement demand toward dollar stablecoins such as USDT in Gulf and North African corridors. This is a notice of proposed rulemaking rather than a final sanction, with a 30-day comment window after Federal Register publication, so the key confirmation points are whether the measure is finalized as drafted and whether major US and European correspondents cut lines before the ruling.
As a Policy signal, watch whether it changes price action, volatility, or flows around USDT.
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