The U.S. Congress is debating the Federal Reserve's proposal to streamline its master account system, evaluating whether cryptocurrency and fintech firms can gain direct access to the central bank’s payment system.

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"The U.S. Congress is debating the Federal Reserve's proposal to streamline its master account system, evaluating whether cryptocurrency and fintech firms can gain direct access to the central bank’s payment system." — BullBear's AI rates this story as a mixed, direction-neutral signal, with a market-impact score of 70 out of 100. The U.S. Congress is debating the Federal Reserve's proposal to streamline its master account system, evaluating whether cryptocurrency and fintech firms can gain direct access to the central bank’s payment system. That score reflects how strongly the story is likely to move Bitcoin, US equities, the dollar, and gold, and near-duplicate coverage of the same event is clustered so only the representative article is scored. BullBear analyzes hundreds of market stories a day this way, turning each into a structured bullish, bearish, or mixed read rather than a raw headline, so the signal can be compared across sources and over time. Reported by Google News Macroeconomics (EN) on June 25, 2026. The bullish and bearish evidence behind this assessment, plus a 24-hour price-move check that verifies the call against what actually happened, are all tracked publicly on BullBear.news.