Circle Partners with Sasai to Expand USDC Adoption in Africa

Sasai Fintech Partners with Circle to Embed USDC and Transform Africa’s Cross-Border Payments

Circle and Sasai Fintech have announced a strategic partnership with Sasai’s pan-African payments to integrate into USD Coin (USDC). This collaboration is targeted at reducing transfer payments costs, speed up settlement times, and expand to digital dollars across multiple African markets.The goal of this partnership is to adopt Circle's dollar-backed stablecoin into Sasai's current payment system in order to make transactions across African pay…

Circle Partners With Cassava to Expand USDC Stablecoin Payments Across Africa

If you’ve ever tried to send money across African borders, you already know how expensive and slow it can be. Fees add up, currencies fluctuate, and dollar is sometimes hard to find. That’s the problem Circle now wants to help solve through a new partnership on the continent. The US-based stablecoin company has signed a deal with a fintech unit of Cassava Technologies, marking its first major partnership in Africa. Cassava is backed by Nvidia an…

Circle and Sasai Fintech Partner to Expand USDC Access Across Africa | LeapRate | Online Trading Industry News, Broker Intelligence & Fintech Analysis

Circle Internet Group has announced a new collaboration with Sasai Fintech, part of Cassava Technologies, to expand access to USDC and develop on-chain financial infrastructure across Africa. Circle said the partnership will explore practical uses of USDC, a fully reserved, dollar-backed stablecoin issued through its regulated affiliates.  The companies plan to examine how Circle’s platform can reduce costs, settlement friction and processing ti…

Circle Partners With African Fintech Sasai to Boost USDC Adoption in Cross-Border Payments

Last Tuesday, it was reported that Circle, the issuer of USDC, has entered into a strategic alliance with Sasai Fintech to integrate the use of its digital asset into Africa’s major payment corridors. Through this collaboration, they seek to leverage Sasai’s infrastructure to facilitate cross-border remittances, commercial transactions, and mobile wallet services, focusing initially on reducing the high costs and settlement times that affect the…

Circle Enlists Sasai to Expand USDC for Africa Cross-Border Payments

Circle is expanding the use of its USD Coin (USDC) across Africa through a strategic partnership with Sasai Fintech. The collaboration aims to weave USDC into Sasai’s payments fabric, covering cross-border transfers, enterprise payments, and consumer wallets, with the goal of lowering costs and shortening settlement times for users across multiple markets. In a Business Wire release, Circle and Sasai described integrating USDC into Sasai’s infra…

Circle strikes first Africa deal with Cassava Technologies

Circle Internet Group has made its first move into Africa, striking a partnership with Sasai Fintech, a unit of Cassava Technologies, to expand the use of its USDC stablecoin across the continent. Bloomberg reported the agreement on March 24 and Circle confirmed the collaboration in a statement the same day.The deal links Circle, a newly listed US fintech company and one of the world's most prominent stablecoin issuers, with Cassava, the African…