FIS & Circle Team Up: USDC Goes Mainstream in U.S. Banking
Wall Street’s sleeping giant wakes up—with a crypto twist.
FIS, the $40B financial infrastructure behemoth, just shook hands with Circle to pipe USDC directly into American banks. No more cobwebbed corridors of legacy finance—this is digital dollars hitting the bloodstream of traditional banking.
The play: Instant settlements, 24/7 liquidity, and a not-so-subtle middle finger to SWIFT’s stone-age delays.
Why it matters: When institutions holding 75% of U.S. deposit accounts start playing with stablecoins, ‘crypto is a fad’ starts sounding like ‘the internet is just for emails.’
Bonus jab: Somewhere in Manhattan, a banker just spilled his $27 artisanal coffee realizing he’ll actually need to understand blockchain now.