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Mastercard Launches Stablecoin Security API — the Pre-Flight Check Banks Need Before Touching On-Chain Assets

Mastercard Launches Stablecoin Security API — the Pre-Flight Check Banks Need Before Touching On-Chain Assets

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Mastercard has officially entered the pre-flight business. At Money20/20 USA, the payments giant introduced Stablecoin Security , a platform-agnostic API designed to act as the gatekeeper for institutional stablecoin payments. The pitch is simple: banks want to move money on-chain, but they are terrified of the compliance fallout. Mastercard is now moving the risk-management layer directly into its own stack, providing the screening banks require before they ever interact with on-chain assets. The core innovation here is the pre-flight mechanism. Most compliance tools wait for the dust to settle after a transaction hits the ledger.

Source: Forkast

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