{"id":3452,"date":"2025-06-19T19:18:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T19:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/visa-taps-yellow-card-to-accelerate-stablecoin-adoption-in-africa\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T19:19:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T19:19:00","slug":"visa-taps-yellow-card-to-accelerate-stablecoin-adoption-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/visa-taps-yellow-card-to-accelerate-stablecoin-adoption-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Visa taps Yellow Card to accelerate stablecoin adoption in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-detail__content blocks\">\n<p class=\"is-style-lead\">As FX pressure grips African economies, Visa is building new pipes for digital dollar flow, shifting away from traditional rails with stablecoin infrastructure aimed at speed, resilience, and access.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg recently <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-06-18\/yellow-card-visa-agree-to-hasten-stablecoin-adoption-in-africa\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> that credit card giant Visa has partnered with Yellow Card Financial to integrate stablecoin settlements across 20 African markets, beginning with a pilot in one undisclosed country later this year.<\/p>\n<p>The collaboration combines Visa Direct\u2019s existing network with Yellow Card\u2019s licenses across Africa and parts of the broader CEMEA region to enable near-instant, low-cost stablecoin transactions, a critical need in markets where local currency volatility and dollar shortages have crippled cross-border commerce.<\/p>\n<p>The move builds on Visa\u2019s existing stablecoin infrastructure, which has already processed over $225 million in USDC settlements since 2023.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Stablecoins fill the gaps traditional rails can\u2019t reach<\/h2>\n<p>Visa and Yellow Card\u2019s partnership represents a shared ambition to modernize cross-border payments in markets long underserved by traditional infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The collaboration targets two pain points simultaneously. For corporations, Visa\u2019s stablecoin settlement solution offers 365-day liquidity management, which can bolster markets where banks often take three business days to process dollar transfers. For consumers, Yellow Card\u2019s integration with Visa Direct could enable sub-$1 remittances across borders where traditional providers charge up to 8% in fees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re building a bridge between traditional finance and the future of money movement,\u201d Yellow Card CEO Chris Maurice stated in a<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.visa.co.ke\/about-visa\/newsroom\/press-releases\/prl-18062025.html\" target=\"_blank\"> press release<\/a>, though conspicuously avoided specifying which economies have greenlit the initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Yellow Card\u2019s existing infrastructure gives Visa immediate access to a mature crypto corridor. The fintech, which bills itself as the licensed stablecoin payments orchestrator for Africa and the emerging world, has processed over $6 billion in transactions since 2019, primarily through USDT and USDC.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Visa can leverage those flows while layering on compliance checks, gaining a strategic edge over Circle\u2019s competing Onafriq partnership, which launched USDC rails across 40 African countries last April.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As FX pressure grips African economies, Visa is building new pipes for digital dollar flow, shifting away from traditional rails with stablecoin infrastructure aimed at speed, resilience, and access. 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