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I’ll be at the GTR Commodities - Commodity trade and finance conference in Geneva this week. Commodity trade is one of the last truly physical industries where oil, metals, grain and all physical resources are moving across oceans and borders every day. But the money behind those flows still moves slower than the cargo itself, trapped in complex corridors, or in transit via a long chain of correspondent banks, impacting settlement times, costs, and operational risks. At Hercle, we built the global payment rails to match that pace, combining regulated banking infrastructure with blockchain settlement to move G10 and EM currency liquidity near-instantly, wherever the trade is happening. I’m looking forward to meeting treasurers, CFOs and financial institutions in Geneva to discuss liquidity, FX and settlement, and how financial infrastructure can better support the realities of commodity trade. If you are at GTR, let's meet!

Next week in Paris, Ioannis Kympritis, VP of Global Expansion at Hercle, joins Cash That Moves, Cash That Earns: Onchain for Treasurers. Together with Ioannis on stage: Fabricio Bezerra - Chief Digital Officer, ArcelorMittal Gonçalo Correia - Institutional Lead EMEA, Utila Antoine H. - Director of Business Development, Zama Max Coniglio - Head of Market Intel, The Big Whale If you are a treasurer, CFO, or senior decision-maker navigating the future of corporate cash management and cross-border payments, join us in Paris to connect with the teams building the next era of global finance 👇

Barcelona is looking busy this week. EBC and Eurofinance at the same time, and if the corridor conversations at both are anything like last year, everyone's still asking the same question: why does moving dollars into LatAm or Africa take longer than moving them into a EU bank account. Genuinely good excuse to compare notes with PSPs and exchanges who are living this daily, not just conference small talk. If you're around either event, DM me, myself or the team can carve out time.

Barcelona bound for the European Blockchain Convention! 🇪🇸 Hercle team will be on the ground September 16-17 discussing cross-border settlement and treasury infrastructure. Meet us on-site: Lorenzo Amoroso — Head of Operations Jérémy Gruffat — MD, Institutional Business Augustin Bethery de La Brosse — Integration Engineer Let's connect in Barcelona! Drop a DM or comment to coordinate. 

🥐 Paris, 24 September. Hercle, together with Utila, Zama, ArcelorMittal and The Big Whale, is co-hosting an invite-only breakfast on how stablecoins and onchain infrastructure are reshaping corporate treasury. Join us for coffee, croissants, and conversations on cross-border payments and the future of treasury. Seats are limited. Link to register in the comments 👇

Stablecoin cards have now crossed $10 billion in transaction volume. Yet the infrastructure powering them is still taking shape. 💳 In our latest F-Prime deep dive, I map the emerging stablecoin card market and examine where the next $100 billion of volume could come from. Full-stack providers such as Rain and Reap dominate today, but a modular model is emerging. Lightspark’s Visa stablecoin debit card program brings together Lithic and Lead Bank, while Marqeta’s partnership with zerohash shows how existing fintechs can add stablecoin capabilities without rebuilding their card programs from scratch. We believe the addressable market for stablecoin cards is an order of magnitude larger than the one being contested today. Fintech, neobank, and commercial card programs represent ~$5.5 trillion of annual volume. Moving just 1% of that volume would create a $55 billion market. There's still plenty of room to build. Hercle is working on 24/7 settlement and conversion between stablecoins and fiat currencies. Pave Bank is building a regulated bank designed around stablecoin, while Karta is bringing stablecoin-powered card into private wealth. If you are a payments veteran building the next issuer processor or other part of the infrastructure, I want to hear from you. Full article in the comments 👇. #stablecoins #payments #fintech

We’ve joined Plexo’s founding cohort together with Tradevu, Echo Money, Kii Global, Zynta, Zuba, Schuman Financial and others. The partnership distributes Hercle’s core Euro strength and deep emerging market rails through the Plexo network, allowing partner institutions to tap directly into our infrastructure. By combining our localized execution with Plexo’s ecosystem, we’re making global cross-border payments faster, direct, and far more accessible. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eq5Eb8dh

🔴 We're welcoming Ioannis Kympritis, VP of Global Expansion at Hercle, as a speaker at our Corporate Breakfast in Paris on September 24th. Stablecoins and onchain rails have matured to the point where cash can move across borders in seconds and earn competitive yield around the clock, without the friction of legacy infrastructure. Hercle is exactly the kind of infrastructure making that shift possible, settling multi-million dollar cross-border transactions in minutes, combining deep stablecoin liquidity with traditional banking rails across 30+ digital assets and 25+ currencies, for 200+ institutional clients including banks, payment providers, exchanges and fintechs. As VP of Global Expansion, Ioannis is at the center of bringing that infrastructure to new institutional partners across the globe alongside Zama and Utila. We'll explore how leading companies are helping treasurers put their cash to work, from cross-border payments and stablecoin infrastructure to tokenized money market instruments and institutional-grade custody. Details & registration in the comments 👇

🔴 Stablecoins just turned corporate treasury into a 24/7 yield machine. Cross-border settlement in seconds. Yield that never sleeps. None of the friction of legacy banking rails. The question isn't "should we look at this" anymore. It's "how do we do it securely, compliantly, at scale." September 24, Paris. An exclusive breakfast with Hercle, Utila and other leading institutional players - cross-border payments, stablecoin infrastructure, tokenized money market instruments, institutional custody. If you're a treasurer at a bank, corporate, or fintech sitting on cash to deploy - this is built for you. Is your treasury still 100% legacy rails, or have you already started testing onchain? Limited seats - link in comments.