Industry Insights

The remittance market, in focus.

Interactive reports on market sizing, corridor flows, pricing trends and the technology reshaping cross-border payments — from on-chain rails to stablecoin corridors.

Series

Get Up to Speed — Stablecoins in Payments

Stablecoin coverage is either crypto-native or consultancy-grade: it assumes DeFi context, or it skips the payments economics entirely. This series is written for analysts — five episodes from foundations to corridor economics, each one earning the next.

2 of 5 episodes published

  1. 01Foundations: what this technology actually is

    The shared settlement ledger, the stablecoin as e-money in a new wrapper, and mint and burn: where the money is at every step. No DeFi context assumed.

    6 August 2026 · 9 min read

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  2. 02The honest numbers

    How to read stablecoin volume claims — raw on-chain totals vs adjusted settlement, and what survives the cut. The series' editorial thesis in chart form.

    6 August 2026 · 10 min read

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  3. 03The players and the playsComing soon

    Who does what, and what each is betting on. Issuers, card networks, banks and processors mapped to their actual stablecoin positions — and the strategic logic behind each play.

  4. 04How the money actually movesComing soon

    The technical episode, calibrated for diligence rather than implementation. How a stablecoin payment settles — mint, transfer, redeem — and the on/off-ramps where the real economics hide.

  5. 05Corridor economics and the rulebookComing soon

    Home turf. Where stablecoin rails genuinely beat priced corridors, where they don't, and how to tell — with the regulatory rulebook and NewRemit's corridor data as the measuring stick.