Stripe Takes Stablecoin Checkout Global Across 120 Countries

Plus: Stop trusting dashboards that lie to you

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Avinash Duggempudi
August 20, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes

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Sales Intelligence: Fintech

Here's what's happening this week in the world of fintech:
- Open banking rewrite faces hearings and data-fee backlash.
- Stripe pushes stablecoin checkout globally, adds AI upgrades.
- FIS debuts managed reconciliation to kill manual breaks.
- iCapital brings Apollo evergreen alts to wealth channels.
- Payoneer taps Stripe to boost APAC checkout conversion.

⏱️THE MINUTE READ

Your forecast isn’t slipping because of effort. It’s slipping because the system you trust is built on guesswork.

  • CRM dashboards reflect rep optimism, not buyer reality.

  • Point tools only surface fragments of truth

  • Leaders react late, chasing updates instead of driving deals.

Real visibility means one system where strategy, buyer signals, and rep execution connect in real time. That’s how CROs cut surprises, coach with confidence, and know which deals are worth their time today.

📌WEEKLY MUST-KNOWS

EVENT
Fintech LIVE London 2025 Adds Three New Executive Speakers
Fintech LIVE London 2025 has expanded its lineup with three newly announced executive speakers from leading financial institutions and fintech innovators. The event, set for later this year, will spotlight leadership perspectives on digital transformation, payments, AI, regulation, and the evolving fintech ecosystem. For fintech marketers, it’s a strong signal of industry momentum and a prime stage for thought leadership positioning.

Stripe now processes stablecoin payments from over 120 countries and is rolling out AI enhancements. This expands crypto-settlement options for merchants and could improve cross-border acceptance and authorization rates. Global ecommerce players and fintech partners can leverage new rails to cut FX friction and lift conversion.

FIS introduced a fully managed, end-to-end reconciliation service to automate data matching and reduce errors across capital markets operations. With data volumes and regulatory complexity rising, the service targets faster, more accurate reporting and audit readiness. Banks, brokers, and corporates can modernize back-office workflows and lower cost to serve.

⚡QUICK READS

Payoneer Taps Stripe To Upgrade APAC Checkout: Payoneer will use Stripe to expand Online Checkout in APAC with BNPL (Affirm, Klarna) and wallets (Apple Pay, Google Pay), aiming for higher acceptance and lower fraud for cross-border SMBs.(More)

Zand Bank Adds Mastercard Move For Cross-Border: UAE challenger Zand Bank adopted Mastercard Move for account, wallet, and cash-pickup payouts, underscoring cross-border capabilities as table stakes in digital banking.(More)

Mastercard Reaffirms Open Banking Support: CEO Michael Miebach backed consumer-consented data sharing as banks move to charge for access, signaling both personalization upside and potential new data costs for fintechs.(More)

🧠LEADING VOICES

I’m A First-Time CEO - No MBA, No Business School Stamp

Just 20 years in sales carrying a number, grinding in the trenches, scaling teams, making mistakes, fixing them and doing it all over again. Now I’m in the thick of scaling an AI-native company. It’s messy, humbling, and the steepest learning curve of my life.

Here are 7 lessons I’ve learned the hard way:
1️⃣ Constrain your resources → When you don’t have endless budget you find out what really matters. Scarcity is clarity.
2️⃣ Frameworks or foundations over vibes → SPICED, Bow Tie, Rev Architecture… they stop the team from running 20 different playbooks at once.
3️⃣ AI ≠ assistant → It’s not about writing emails faster. The game changes when you rebuild the system around it.
4️⃣ Trust + dashboards → Data is useless if your reps don’t believe in the process. Change management is the hardest (and most important) job
5️⃣ Always talk to customers → The best roadmap decisions don’t come from Notion docs they come from raw customer calls - if you're not speaking to a customer AT LEAST weekly re think what you're doing and where you're focusing your time
6️⃣ Pivot AND iterate fast - most of the time if you think you need to change you're deciding too late - focus on the metrics that matter, run experiments, get in front of customers and create the feedback loops to iterate. But when it's really not getting traction PIVOT hard, be brave 7️⃣ Play the long game → Forget vanity metrics. If your North Star is daily active usage, keep your eyes there.

I loved listening to Justin Fitzpatrick with Tom Glason on Making the Grade podcast (above) - Building for a Smart Exit talk to some of these points - definitely worth a listen..

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