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Organization Government USA Financial Regulation	U.S. Government	The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is a U.S. government agency responsible for regulating and supervising all national banks and federal savings associations.[^1]

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is a U.S. government agency responsible for regulating and supervising all national banks and federal savings associations.¹

Involvement in BCCI Scandal

In February 1978, an OCC officer, Joseph E. Vaez, submitted a report on the Bank of Credit and Commerce International that characterized it as a bank dangerously out of control.¹ The OCC claimed to have "lost" this memo, and only released it after a congressional subpoena.²

Footnotes

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1. Beaty, Jonathan and Gwynne, S. C. The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret Heart of BCCI. New York: Random House, 1993, p. 12. ↩︎

2. Beaty, Jonathan and Gwynne, S. C. The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret Heart of BCCI. New York: Random House, 1993, p. 382. ↩︎