Stablecoins have moved far beyond their crypto-native origins. What began as a trading instrument on exchanges is now increasingly discussed in boardrooms of banks, payment service providers, and global enterprises. In this episode, we sat down with Geetha Panchapakesan , Co-Founder of Tesser , and one of the most experienced operators in cross-border payments. With a career spanning Mastercard, MoneyGram, PayPal, Visa Direct, and Circle, Geetha has spent decades building glo

Summary: As part of our Digital Money Interview Series on Bitcoin, Fiat and Rock’n’Roll, we’ll accompany each episode with a blog post capturing the most compelling ideas and takeaways from our conversations on digital money. In this first post, Jonas sits down with Jonathan to explore why we’re launching this series now, what we hope to achieve with it, and how the digital money conversation has evolved over the past several years. Why This Series, and Why Now? When Bitcoin,

The introduction of the digital euro is delayed. Now, for the first time, the European Parliament has presented a concrete timeline. On the journey toward the digital euro, Piero Cipollone and Fernando Navarrete are essentially sitting in the same boat – yet they’re steering in opposite directions. While Cipollone, a member of the European Central Bank (ECB)’s Executive Board, wants to set sail, Navarrete, the European Parliament’s rapporteur, is turning the bow into the wind

On Monday August 7, PayPal announced that it will launch a US dollar stablecoin, called PYUSD. This step is not surprising, because it...