Nium Partners with Coinbase on USDC Integration

Singapore-based payments infrastructure company Nium announced a partnership with Coinbase on Wednesday to integrate USD Coin (USDC) payments into its global platform, enabling businesses to send, receive, and convert the stablecoin alongside fiat payouts across more than 190 countries.

The live integration allows banks, fintechs, and enterprises to fund cross-border transfers using USDC and settle in either stablecoins or local currencies through a single system. Coinbase provides the underlying infrastructure, including regulated custody, liquidity, and embedded wallet services, to support these transactions. This setup facilitates just-in-time settlement, where funds are deployed at the moment of payout rather than requiring businesses to maintain prefunded accounts in multiple jurisdictions. Nium officials described the approach as offering "the speed of stablecoins with the stability of the dollar, no crypto complexity, no new payout flow."

Nium's network already supports more than 100 currencies, local collections in 40 markets, and real-time payouts in over 100 corridors worldwide, operating under more than 40 regulatory licenses. The addition of USDC enhances these...