# Western Union’s Stablecoin Moment

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Podcast: [This Week in Fintech](https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-in-fintech-6007929)
Published: 2026-04-29T05:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Presented by Rain. This episode of Crossing the Chasm, host Chiara Munaretto is joined by Malcolm Clarke to discuss how Western Union is bringing stablecoins into the real world with the launch of USDPT. Malcolm explains why Western Union believes the future of digital dollars is not about making consumers learn crypto, but about using blockchain behind the scenes to make cross-border payments faster, more efficient, and easier to scale. Chiara and Malcolm dig into the infrastructure challeng...

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