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By Steven Anderson
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OpenPayd's Infrastructure and MiCA Authorization. OpenPayd, founded in 2018, built its business around bridging fiat and digital assets.
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Decta's Earlier Stablecoin Ambitions. Decta's interest in stablecoins didn't start here. Back in 2024, the company had conversations…
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Decta is done waiting on banks. The London-founded payments platform has started settling international treasury funds in USDC, routed through OpenPayd's financial…
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Scott Dawson, Decta's UK CEO, was direct about the problem. Moving funds between banking relationships to cover operational obligations has always been a pain — cut-off times,…
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Worth being clear: this isn't about customer-facing payments. Decta's clients — businesses across 32 countries using its payment processing, card issuing, acquiring, and banking…
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OpenPayd, founded in 2018, built its business around bridging fiat and digital assets. It's got authorization under the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation — MiCA — which…
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The OTC conversion piece is central to how the whole thing works. Decta doesn't go near a public exchange.
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Stablecoin adoption for back-office treasury functions has been growing across the financial industry for a while now.
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Decta's interest in stablecoins didn't start here. Back in 2024, the company had conversations with France's Next Generation about potentially issuing a euro-pegged stablecoin…
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But the 2024 discussions do tell you something about how Decta thinks. It's not just reacting to industry trends.
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For now, the USDC integration through OpenPayd is the concrete step. And it's a meaningful one for a company operating at Decta's scale.
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OpenPayd's client list gives a sense of the kind of company it keeps. Kraken, eToro, OKX, B2C2 — these aren't small operations.
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The broader picture here is that MiCA has started doing what it was supposed to do: giving regulated entities a clear path into digital asset services without the legal ambiguity…
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