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APAC consumers show appetite for stablecoin

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Almost half of consumers in Asia Pacific would be willing to use stablecoins in the next five years, according to recently published research from Visa

Almost half of consumers in Asia Pacific would be willing to use stablecoins in the next five years, according to recently published research from Visa

In context

  • Topic: Banca y Fintech — Banca digital, pagos, open banking y regulación financiera.
  • Source: Finextra
  • Published: 05/10/2026

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Why it matters

In payments, innovation always runs one step ahead of regulation and two steps ahead of the systems that have to support it. That gap is where the business is decided: whoever closes it without breaking compliance takes the market.

I separate what improves the customer's life from what improves the bank's margin. Sometimes they coincide, and those are the good projects. When they do not, it is worth saying so out loud in committee, because a project that only improves margin shows up in customer satisfaction sooner than people expect.

What usually goes wrong

What I see fail most is underestimated compliance load. The product gets designed around the customer and legal comes in late, once it is already built. That is when requirements appear that force whole flows to be redone, and what was going to ship in one quarter ships in three.

What to watch

  • Which part of the customer relationship ends up with a third party and whether that is reversible.
  • What happens to cost per transaction at real volume, which is where the business is decided.
  • How daily reconciliation is left, which is where the cases nobody modelled show up.

How I read this entry

I would treat it as a conversation about partnerships rather than product. In this sector fewer and fewer institutions build everything, and the relevant decision is who you partner with and which part of the customer relationship you hand over. That handover is hard to reverse later.

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