Stablecoins in LATAM: Powering Payments, Dollar Access, and Cross-Border Flows
📣 Calling all fintech and payments builders in Latin America
Stablecoins are quickly becoming a core part of financial infrastructure across LATAM - not just for crypto-native use cases, but for real-world payments, treasury, and access to USD liquidity.
In episode 7 of the Stablecoin Builder Series, we turn our focus to LATAM's evolving stablecoin ecosystem, where demand is driven by FX volatility, cross-border payment friction, and the need for more efficient financial rails.
From B2B payments and remittances to treasury operations and local currency conversion, stablecoins are enabling fintechs and businesses to move money faster, cheaper, and with greater flexibility across the region.
Join us for a practical discussion with LATAM fintech and payments leaders who are actively building with stablecoins.
What we’ll cover
How stablecoins are being used for payments, treasury, and local rails
Key infrastructure components (wallets, compliance, liquidity, routing)
Regional challenges: FX volatility, regulation, banking access
How companies are designing payment flows and user experiences
Lessons learned from deploying stablecoin payments in production
🎤 Panel + Q&A
Featuring:
Caio Barbosa, Founder & Co-CEO, Lumx
Leandro Meneses, Founder & CEO, Mandioca
Andres Kim, Regional Expansion Lead, Tether
Cristobal Valle Gonzalez, Banking Partnerships, Global66
Moderated by:
Adrielle Andrade, Sales Director - LATAM, Utila
James Ross Vázquez, Sales Director - LATAM, Utila
🎙️ About Lumx
From stablecoin on/off-ramps to virtual accounts and wallets, Lumx provides tools for seamless global banking with instant settlements and unmatched liquidity.
🎙️ About Mandioca
Mandioca is a global cross-border payments platform that empowers companies to send and receive international payments with speed, transparency, and simplicity. They combine the efficiency of stablecoins with the reliability of traditional banking to help businesses move money across borders — fast and cost-effectively.
🎙️ About Tether
Tether is the issuer of USD₮, the world’s most widely used stablecoin. With billions of users across emerging and developed markets, Tether enables faster, more accessible, and more efficient movement of value globally. Tether is focused on financial inclusion, digital asset infrastructure, and expanding access to the U.S. dollar through blockchain technology.
🎙️ About Global66
Global66 is the Latin American fintech positioning itself as LATAM’s Global Neobank, offering a Global Account that allows individuals and businesses across Latin America to access services such as currency exchange, peer-to-peer transfers between Global66 accounts, payment links, a SmartCard available in Chile, Peru, and Colombia, and fully digital international money transfers to more than 70 countries.
🛠️ About Utila
Utila is the leading digital asset infrastructure platform for fintechs and enterprises. Utila enables organizations of all sizes to securely manage and build on digital assets. Trusted by 250+ institutions, Utila processes over $20B monthly and has secured $200B+ in transactions - growing rapidly.