Beyond the Noise: The Fintech Investor Series is a LinkedIn Live Series hosted by Bill Cilluffo, partner and head of global early stage investments, where Bill talks to industry experts to break down the most important topics in global fintech.

In this episode, The hybrid future: How stablecoins will complement existing payment systems, Bill dives into a core belief shared during his last discussion with QED's Gbenga Ajayi and Adams Conrad: the future of payments is hybrid. Listen to learn why QED believes the future of payments is a mix of old and new systems, what the trade-offs are across speed, cost, security, reversibility, and more, across stablecoins and other payment rails and why QED believes the winners will be the ones who connect payment systems, not just build new ones.

Beyond the Noise: The Fintech Investor Series is a LinkedIn Live Series hosted by Bill Cilluffo, partner and head of global early stage investments, where Bill talks to industry experts to break down the most important topics in global fintech.

In this episode, Will stablecoins disrupt global finance?, you can listen to Bill's discussion with QED's Gbenga Ajayi and Adams Conrad to explore emerging trends, including real-world use cases in emerging markets and the U.S., and what has been solved and what open challenges remain.

In LATAM countries, particularly Mexico, 10% of the population has a credit card. However, within credit card transactions, according to Mexico's central bank Banxico, around 65% of transactions from credit cards in any given year are installment-based.

While working at Morgan Stanley in NYC, Angel Peña, co-founder and CEO of Aplazo, a modern payment network offering payment solutions and merchant tools to help merchants sell more and grow their brands, discovered Mexico's huge cultural preference for paying in installments but also that the country had a major roadblock for mass adoption of purchase financing installment plans.

In this episode of the Fintech Thought Leaders podcast, Host Bill Cilluffo and Aplazo CEO Angel Peña discussed Mexico's underbanked population, the benefits of merchants being able to offer installment payment plans (BNPL) to 88% of the Mexican population who do not have credit cards and campaign installments, and the work Aplazo is doing to achieve financial ubiquity in Mexico.