NiftyNoon: It’s Stablecoin Season - Visa & Yellow Card Revolutionize Payments in Africa 💳🌍📈
Visa and Yellow Card have partnered to accelerate the adoption of digital dollars for cross-border payments across the African continent (June 20, 2025)
Nifty Thought:
Payment giant Visa is making a significant move into the African crypto space, partnering with stablecoin payments provider Yellow Card Financial. This collaboration aims to promote the use of stablecoins for cross-border payments in the 20 African countries where Yellow Card operates. The partnership will focus on streamlining treasury operations and enabling faster, more cost-effective money transfers, with plans to roll out stablecoin transactions with Visa in at least one country this year. This move underscores a growing trend of stablecoin adoption on the continent, which is often fueled by limited access to physical U.S. dollars and ongoing foreign exchange crises.
The collaboration between a TradFi titan like Visa and a crypto-native company like Yellow Card is a major signal of the growing synergy between the two worlds. It comes as stablecoins are rapidly gaining traction, accounting for approximately 43% of Sub-Saharan Africa's total crypto transaction volume between July 2023 and June 2024. This institutional push is happening alongside an improving regulatory environment, with countries like Kenya, Mauritius, and Botswana establishing clearer rules for digital assets. As major payment companies continue to explore the stablecoin space, partnerships like this could lay the groundwork for wider adoption and further validate digital currencies as a key part of the future financial system.
Highlighted News:
🎫 Yellow Card is teaming up with @Visa to enhance stablecoin settlement infrastructure in emerging markets:
https://x.com/yellowcard_app/status/1935369007806165168
💳 Head of Crypto at Visa on partnership with @yellowcard_app:
https://x.com/cuysheffield/status/1935471824965394882
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