The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency denied Wise's application for a US national trust bank charter, the payments company said Friday, a rare public rejection from a regulator that has spent the past eight months approving trust charters for crypto and fintech firms.

Wise's ambitions to deepen its presence in the U.S. suffered a setback after regulators rejected the fintech's application to become a national trust bank.

Wise has been denied a US banking licence, just months after it switched its primary stock market listing to New York.

The London-based business had applied for a national bank charter in the US.