Leaders In Payments and FinTech - The EDC Podcast · 2026-02-18 · 30 min
The payments industry is on the cusp of a major transformation as stablecoins emerge as alternatives to traditional payment rails. Stablecoins promise to revolutionize cross-border payments and micropayments through blockchain's native interoperability, but they face challenges around demonstrating clear advantages over existing instant payment networks and avoiding market fragmentation. This episode explores how stablecoins differ from volatile cryptocurrencies and CBDCs, examines real-world use cases from remittances to tokenized assets, and discusses where they're most likely to gain traction in a rapidly evolving regulatory landscape shaped by frameworks like Europe's MiCA. In this episode of the Leaders in Payments and Fintech podcast, host Mark Beresford sits down with Diederick Langstraat and Thibault Pelé from Worldline, alongside Samee Zafar, CEO of Edgar, Dunn & Company, to explore the emerging world of stablecoins and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). They discuss how stablecoins differ from volatile cryptocurrencies and traditional payment rails, and examine real-world use cases from cross-border payments to tokenized assets.
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