Season 2 · Episode 12
Reap × Visa Expand Stablecoin Cards to 100+ Markets: $20B Settle
Summary
Reap and Visa announced Sept 23, 2026 a collaboration to bring stablecoin-linked Visa credit card programs to 100+ markets — expanding Reap’s issuing stack beyond Asia and Latin America into EMEA and Africa, subject to local rules.
In this OnlyFintechs episode we unpack issuer infrastructure (not a U.S. bank go-live): stablecoins as funding, collateral, and repayment behind familiar Visa plastic; Visa’s $20B annualized stablecoin settlement run rate and 160+ programs; Reap as Visa’s Asia-Pacific stablecoin settlement partner; and how this sits next to SoFi’s national-bank SoFiUSD Mastercard settlement (S2E8).
What you’ll learn:
- Expansion vs launch
- Why volume ≠ Reap revenue
- Agentic-commerce exploration vs live product
- Multicurrency stablecoin cards as roadmap
Keywords: Reap, Visa, stablecoin cards, card issuing, settlement, EMEA, Africa, embedded finance, corporate treasury, payments rails, fintech
#Reap #Visa #Stablecoin #CardIssuing #Payments #Settlement #Fintech #PodcastDrop
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:00 Intro: the plumbing phase for stablecoins
Chapters
- 1:51Reap and Visa plan expansion to 100+ markets
- 4:44How a stablecoin-funded card payment works
- 6:52Settling with Visa in stablecoins, and fraud controls
- 9:13Growth figures and the $20B Visa metric
- 11:33Contrast: SoFi's bank-issued stablecoin
- 14:18Visa's on-chain lending for card programs
- 16:31Agentic commerce: roadmap only
