Yellow Card, a global provider of stablecoin infrastructure, has wrapped up a $40m strategic funding round as it looks to accelerate its expansion into new international markets.
Backers in the round included SC Ventures by Standard Chartered, Sony Innovation Fund, Polychain Capital and Blockchain Capital, alongside a number of other strategic investors.
The raise lifts the firm’s total equity financing beyond the $120m mark. Capital from the round will be directed towards scaling Global USD Accounts, the company’s end-to-end dollar account product for businesses, and broadening the stablecoin rails that link the offering to markets around the world.
The involvement of Sony Innovation Fund underlines rising institutional appetite for stablecoin-based payments worldwide and will help Yellow Card strengthen its footprint across Asia-Pacific.
Through the fresh capital, Yellow Card intends to bring Global USD Accounts to a wider pool of businesses. The product gives companies a single account through which they can hold US dollars, hold and swap stablecoins, oversee treasury operations, and collect and pay out local currencies via domestic rails in more than 50 countries.
The accounts are built on infrastructure the firm has run for years, and the new financing will deepen its presence in Latin America and Asia Pacific while extending the local payment rails and currency coverage required for global scale. Customers already relying on Global USD Accounts include Visa and Western Union.
Yellow Card has processed upwards of $10bn in transactions across its network. It supports over 50 currencies and holds the relevant licences, authorisations and registrations across 22 jurisdictions spanning North America, Europe and Africa. Strategic tie-ups with Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and Coinbase have established the business as an infrastructure layer for global payments players.
Sony Ventures-US managing director Austin Noronha said, “Sony Innovation Fund is actively investing across the web3 technology stack, and we are excited to back Yellow Card as it builds the stablecoin infrastructure layer that emerging markets need to move money faster, more reliably, and at global scale.
“By combining robust APIs, deep local fiat rails, institutional-grade security, and a strong regulatory-first approach, Yellow Card is making stablecoin-powered payments practical for banks, fintechs, and enterprises. As the company rapidly expands beyond Africa into broader emerging markets across LATAM, EMEA, and APAC, we look forward to supporting its vision of becoming a trusted bridge between traditional finance and the next generation of digital money.”
Yellow Card CEO and co-founder Chris Maurice said, “This investment is a vote of confidence in what we’ve spent years building: the infrastructure that lets global businesses move money without a traditional correspondent banking. But the bigger opportunity now is connecting banks themselves to stablecoin rails. When institutions plug into this infrastructure, they’re not just modernizing payments, they’re unlocking dollar access for millions of businesses that traditional correspondent banking has left behind. Money should move at the speed and convenience of the internet, and increasingly, banks want to move with it.”
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