On Around The Coin, host Stephen Sargeant interviews Wesley Rios, US &amp; LATAM Partnerships Lead at Morph Network, about the current state of stablecoin infrastructure and merchant payment rails. Rios shares his career path from Citi, JPMorgan, and 13 years at Mastercard into crypto, arguing stablecoins are shifting the conversation from technology to concrete cost and reach benefits. He cites stablecoin market metrics, the impact of regulatory frameworks, and operational adoption by firms like MoneyGram, while highlighting US-to-emerging-market corridors and SMB pain points such as USD access, reconciliation, and on/off-ramps. Rios explains Morph’s differentiator as owning both settlement and orchestration layers, with partners for compliance, KYC, custody, and local stablecoin issuers. They discuss fragmentation, trust, and why stablecoin rails may fit agentic and physical AI commerce, plus Morph’s merchant dashboard launch (Aug 4) and a design-partner beta. We are also available via: Around The Coin — Official Website Buzzsprout Apple Podcast Spotify Player FM Quora Medium X Facebook LinkedIn Tiktok Soundcloud

From Banking to Stablecoin Payments - Wesley Rios | ATC #621

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Stablecoin Infrastructure, that is what we are talking about today on Around The Coin. I'm your host Stephen Sargeant. We're interviewing the one, the only Wesley Rios, who's the US and LATAM partnership lead at Morph Network. We're going to talk all about stablecoin infrastructure. We're going to get into agentic commerce, regulation, compliance, and what it was like for Wesley to work at some of the biggest traditional firms, you know, JP Morgan, Citibank, before jumping into a crypto native company.

We're also going to be talking about the solutions that Morph Network is going to be releasing to help merchants all over the world. It talks about the challenges, the pitfalls, talks about the transition in his career. We cover everything in this episode. Stay tuned. It's going to be a fun one. We have Wesley Rios from Morph. Wesley, you cover the US and LATIM partnerships, and you're the lead under that project. Maybe give us a little bit of a background because you have some strong traditional companies on your resume.

Give us a little rundown and how you got into crypto would be a really great place to start this conversation. Yeah, no, thanks for having me. I'm happy to be here and have this conversation with you. Yeah, my background, I have a strong traditional payments. I started my career with Citi in the banking side on the transactional banking, and it was all about payments.

From there, I moved to JP Morgan in Latin America, focused on regional payments for, you know, medium to large corporates. And then MasterCard, where I spent the last 13 years on the consumer payments, where I work with credit, prepay, debits, products across different consumer segments, such as affluent and underserved.

From Banking to Stablecoin Payments - Wesley Rios | ATC #621

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From Banking to Stablecoin Payments - Wesley Rios | ATC #621

Read the full transcript

The candid version is on a podcast, not the earnings call.

The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.