Former Visa executive Matt Price joins WasabiCard as Global Partnership Director
A former Visa executive is moving to stablecoin payment infrastructure. WasabiCard named Matt Price its Global Partnership Director on July 20, 2026, drawing talent from the traditional card network world as the New…
A former Visa executive is moving to stablecoin payment infrastructure. WasabiCard named Matt Price its Global Partnership Director on July 20, 2026, drawing talent from the traditional card network world as the New York company pushes into what it describes as the next phase of its global expansion and stablecoin-powered payment infrastructure growth.
What the hire signals
The appointment places a Visa-trained executive directly in charge of WasabiCard's global partnerships. That provenance is specific to the company's direction. Visa's network spans merchants and financial institutions across most major markets, and an executive who worked inside that system carries the institutional relationships and operational vocabulary that a stablecoin payment platform needs when it approaches large distribution partners.
The choice to recruit from a card network is itself a signal. It suggests WasabiCard is targeting the commercial infrastructure of traditional payments, working within the existing system rather than building around it.
WasabiCard's own framing deserves attention. The company described the Price appointment as marking the start of a new expansion phase. That language tends to precede commercial agreements, not accompany existing ones.
The stablecoin payment rails picture
WasabiCard operates at a specific point in the payments stack: stablecoin-denominated settlement layered onto global payment infrastructure. Cross-border payment flows have historically carried friction through correspondent banking systems, and dollar-pegged stablecoins offer a path to faster, lower-cost settlement that has drawn growing attention from fintech operators and established card networks alike.
Price's mandate points directly at the distribution side of that story. Building the rails is one problem. Signing the merchants and platforms that run on them is the other, and his role as Global Partnership Director names exactly that task.
What to watch
No partnership names or financial terms accompanied the announcement. The next confirmable milestone is a formal commercial agreement attributed to Price's mandate. WasabiCard made the appointment public from New York on July 20, 2026.
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