Introduction

In this episode, Austin chats with Nabil Manji of Worldpay, one of the largest payment processing companies in the world. In a recent collaboration with Worldpay, Visa expanded its USDC settlement to the Solana blockchain. Austin and Nabil chat about the current landscape of card payments and what the integration of blockchain unlocks for large financial institutions. Why complicate the legacy fiat payment system if it seems to work so well? Drawing on the firsthand experience at Worldpay, Nabil discusses the due diligence behind adopting USDC, the way USDC rails work for merchants, the internal process of adopting blockchain at a large company, and more.