Visa announced on July 16, 2025, that it is partnering with Yellow Card, a leading pan-African fintech, to explore stablecoin use cases and opportunities across markets where Yellow Card is licensed to operate. The partnership aims to help streamline treasury operations and enhance liquidity management. At the recent Visa Payments Forum CEMEA 2025, Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto at Visa, sat down with Chris Maurice, Co-Founder and CEO of Yellow Card, to share insights on the transformative potential of stablecoins.

Yellow Card started with Bitcoin for payments in June 2019, but later listed USDT in 2020. The company saw a significant shift in volume, with 70% Bitcoin and 30% USDT within a week of launching USDT, and 99% USDT within four months. Chris Maurice attributed this shift

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