Mastercard Expands Card Clearing to Regulated Stablecoins Including USDC and RLUSD

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Summary

Mastercard plans to extend card clearing to regulated stablecoins, including Circle's USDC and Ripple's RLUSD, with intraday, weekend, and holiday clearing options. The plan also covers Paxos-issued PYUSD, USDG, USDP, and SoFiUSD, with supported blockchains including Ethereum, Solana, Tempo, XRP Le…

Key points

Settlement teams can use this to plan weekend and holiday liquidity arrangements and note which partners support it first.
Bringing regulated stablecoins into card network clearing connects on-chain funds directly with existing card settlement networks within the regulatory system.
Acquirers and issuing partners need to assess multi-chain, multi-token clearing reconciliation processes, while finance teams face weekend liquidity management.

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