How Stablecoins Fix Broken FX Markets W/ Chris Maurice (Yellow Card) Money Code podcast

How Stablecoins Fix Broken FX Markets w/ Chris Maurice (Yellow Card)

11d ago 57:41

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In episode 11 of Money Code, hosts Chuk Okpalugo and Raj Parekh are joined by Chris Maurice, Founder and CEO of Yellow Card, a leading stablecoin payments company serving emerging markets.

Dollar liquidity is the choke point of emerging-market commerce, and the traditional system forces businesses into informal FX networks just to survive. Chris explains how stablecoins have replaced cash as the form factor for the dollar in Africa and other frontier markets, why the shift happened so violently fast, and what it means for banks, corporates, and fintech builders now racing to catch up.

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Connect with the Hosts & Guest

Chuk Okpalugo: LinkedIn, X, stablecoinblueprint.com

Raj Parekh: LinkedIn, X, monad.xyz

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Chapters

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Yellow Card’s pivot: from B2C Bitcoin exchange to B2B stablecoin rails (00:02:56)

3. How dollars really move today: SWIFT limits, capital controls, and hawala (00:06:48)

4. Fragmented FX, information asymmetry, and stablecoins as liquidity aggregator (00:12:20)

5. Inside Yellow Card: 50+ exotic currencies and $10B of flows (00:16:03)

6. “Stablecoins are just dollars” – user mental models and the treasury yield gap (00:19:46)

7. Dollarization myths vs reality and upgrading the UX of the dollar (00:24:40)

8. Scale, Currencies, And How Users Perceive Stablecoins (00:26:58)

9. Can non-USD stablecoins win? Local tokens, banks, and who controls distribution (00:31:10)

10. Hedging and regional trade: why rand or peso stablecoins might still matter (00:36:40)

11. Yellow Card’s infra stack, regulatory sea change, and what success looks like in 5 years (00:46:30)

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