Visa’s earnings call makes it clear just how invested the company is in the crypto space.

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and NEAR.org.

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Our main discussion looks at comments this week from Visa CEO Al Kelly on the company’s relationship with crypto, analyzing the five areas of opportunity Visa has identified:

Helping customers buy BTC and crypto
Enabling digital cash outs to fiat
Enabling TradFi to offer crypto to customers
Settlement via stablecoins
Central bank digital currencies

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