Stablecoins Collapse Global Expansion for Fintechs w/ Alfonso + Rodri (Crossmint)
About this episode
The episode discusses the impact of stablecoins on global fintech expansion with insights from the co-founders of Crossmint.
Presented by Stablecon; Powered by BVNK. In this episode of Money Code, hosts Chuk Okpalugo and Raj Parekh sit down with Alfonso Gómez-Jordana and Rodrigo Fernández Touza, co-founders of Crossmint, a financial infrastructure company building wallets, stablecoin orchestration, and agentic commerce tools. They unpack why launching fintech globally can move from country-by-country banking integrations to a single API, how compliance shifts to infrastructure providers with economies of scale, and why the loudest agentic-payment narratives still have little volume compared with B2B procurement and payment collection. Subscribe and listen to the Money Code podcast here: https://lnk.to/MoneyCodeSN Chapters 00:00 Crossmint's evolution from NFT checkout to financial infrastructure 02:12 No API for economic activity 04:14 The monastery origin story behind Crossmint 07:51 Why NFT checkout became stablecoin infrastructure 10:02 Embedded finance: turning remittance receivers into wallet customers 13:23 Stablecoins as the universal API for global fintech 16:12 The regulatory-arbitrage objection 21:10 Four compliance surfaces in stablecoin programs 23:55 MoneyGram: reducing costs and turning…
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