MoneyGram inks partnership with Stellar for USDC settlement

Customers volition deposit oregon retreat funds utilizing their wallets astatine MoneyGram work providers

MoneyGram, a US-based cross-border payments and wealth transportation services company, has announced a concern with Stellar successful a woody that volition spot customers entree relationship backing and withdrawals via the USD Coin (USDC) stablecoin.

The concern has been struck with the Stellar Development Foundation, a non-profit organisation down the Stellar Network's development. It besides incorporates payments steadfast Circle's USDC, allowing for near-instant colony of fiscal transactions via the stablecoin.

The woody besides includes United Texas Bank, an FDIC-insured commercialized slope that volition supply transaction colony wrong US banking regulations.

Seamless conversion from fiat to USDC

Customers are acceptable to payment from seamless wealth conversion, either from USDC to the section currency oregon from currency to USD Coin, the institution said successful a property release.

Denelle Dixon, the CEO of the Stellar Development Foundation, noted that the concern enhances the relation of blockchain exertion successful fiscal services and that it could spot much radical payment from a work not antecedently accessible to them. She added:

"Thanks to the scope of MoneyGram's services and the velocity and debased outgo of transactions connected Stellar, a caller conception of currency users volition beryllium capable to person their currency into and retired of USDC, giving them entree to accelerated and affordable integer plus services that whitethorn person antecedently been retired of reach."

MoneyGram Chairman and CEO Alex Holmes pointed retired the maturation successful cryptocurrencies and stablecoins, commenting that the ecosystem had the imaginable to "streamline cross-border payments".

"Given our expertise successful planetary payments, blockchain, and compliance, we are highly well-positioned to proceed to beryllium the person successful gathering bridges to link integer currencies with section fiat currencies," Holmes added.

MoneyGram volition rotation retired the services crossed prime locations by the extremity of 2021 earlier going unrecorded globally successful 2022.

MoneyGram's concern with Stellar comes months aft the institution halted its practice with Ripple, the institution down the XRP cryptocurrency. The determination to suspend ties with Ripple followed the US Securities and Exchanges Commission’s (SEC's) lawsuit against Ripple Labs and apical institution executives. The lawsuit is ongoing.

Stellar (XLM) is up astir 15% successful the past 24 hours to presently commercialized astir $0.35. XRP price is besides up by 5% to commercialized astir $1.08.