E59 - Why Klarna’s Stablecoin Is More Than PR

On Ep. 59 of Tokenized, Simon Taylor, GTM @ Tempo is joined by Nilan Peiris, Chief Product Officer @ Wise and Luca Cosentino, Head of Crypto @ Cross River to discuss KlarnaUSD launch, corporate treasury use cases for stablecoins and more!

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00:00 Introduction02:38 KlarnaUSD launch for internal treasury operations and yield generation05:53 Corporate treasury use cases for stablecoins07:06 Instant merchant payouts and settlement using stablecoins as an abstraction layer11:03 Cross-border payments and stablecoins for remittances and dollarization17:04 Cross River's platform unifying stablecoin and fiat flows to eliminate pre-funding24:56 Building infrastructure for tokenization and future financial use cases28:40 Paxos acquisition of...