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Stablecoin Payments are Operational Infrastructure Now

A practical guide for fintechs building stablecoin payment infrastructure across APAC, MENA, Africa, and Latin America.

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Why this report

The gap between fintechs scaling stablecoin payments and those still planning to, is not technology.
It is infrastructure.

This report covers how stablecoins work at volume, across corridors, with the compliance and governance architecture that banking partners, cross border payment providers and regulators actually look for.

Traditional Infrastructure 2–5 day settlement, high fees, limited hours, and corridors that break at volume.

Stablecoin Infrastructure Settles in seconds, runs 24/7, cuts costs by 40%, handles sanctions and compliance automatically.

Inside the report

Know exactly what’s missing before it costs you.

Regional opportunity by segment

Where the real opportunity sits across four high-growth regions, and which segments are generating the fastest returns on infrastructure investment today.

Why some fintechs scaled and others didn't

What separates fintechs that have moved from pilot to production from those that have not, across segment, geography, and funding level.

What you need before you go live

The minimum capability set institutional practitioners treat as baseline in 2026, from multichain settlement to HSM-backed key security.

The 12-question readiness checklist

A 12-question operational checklist for founders, payments heads, treasury leads, and compliance officers evaluating stablecoin payment rail integration

About the contributors

This report was prepared in collaboration with PwC advisors and independent industry experts.
Expert contributions are reproduced with permission.

Dr. Bhaskar Dasgupta

Chairman of the Board, FundRock
Investment Management Services
(ME) Ltd

Neptune Chen, Ph.D.

Partner and Managing Director,
PwC

Sam Wu

Partner, PwC

Mahin Gupta

Founder and CEO, Liminal
Custody

“Every fintech we work with starts the same conversation: they want to move faster, process more volume, and do it without adding compliance or operational headcount proportionally. The answer is always infrastructure.”

Mahin Gupta

Founder & CEO, Liminal Custody

Build stablecoin payment infrastructure that performs at scale. The question is no longer if. It is how.