Thai banks join stablecoin rush with eye on migrant worker remittances

Kasikornbank, SCBX offer fast, cost-cutting payment services

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Kasikornbank is working with a Japanese company to develop a stablecoin remittance service.(Photo by Yuki Kohara)

KOSUKE INOUE, Nikkei staff writer

BANGKOK -- Stablecoins are emerging as an option for sending and receiving money from abroad in Thailand, backed by two of the country's biggest banks.

A Kasikornbank unit signed an agreement in mid-November to partner with Japan's G.U. Group, a provider of stablecoin issuance and management systems. With many Japanese companies operating in Thailand, the bank is eyeing stablecoin use for remittances between the two countries.

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