Early last year, New York-based crypto entrepreneur Azeem Khan had just raised $19 million in seed funding for his startup, Morph, and needed somewhere to keep it. Before going in search of a US bank account, he asked his attorney for advice. “You have a zero percent chance of having zero issues,” Khan recalls being told.
If anything, this dour assessment proved overly optimistic: After six months and a multitude of rejections from US banks, Khan gave up. He settled for housing some of the funds with a bank in the Cayman Islands, which offered no interest, and converting the rest into crypto assets,
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