SpotPay Launches: Your Global Bank Account

SpotPay recently launched!

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^{"Hold money, send locally or internationally, and spend globally with the SpotPay Calypso Card."}

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^TL;DR:

^{SpotPay is a global neobank that lets people spend, send and receive money anywhere in the world from a single account.}

^{They are building the next generation of financial services powered by modern blockchains and stablecoin technology.}

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https://youtu.be/lnUMKwfnmvQ

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Founded by Zsika Phillip & Thomas Cesare-Herriau

Zsika previously worked as a tech lead and PM at Google on several products including YouTube Monetization, Ads Monetization, and Google Cloud. Zsika grew up between the Caribbean and Mexico so the solution SpotPay is building is very close to him.

Thomas was engineer #4 at Brex, where he was most recently a Principal Engineer. He has spent years building financial products and infrastructure at scale. Thomas also worked as a Software Engineer at Google.

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And SpotPay is taking off! 🚀🚀

They launched just over two months ago and today they are already live in 40+ countries. On average, their TPV (Total Payment Volume) is growing 43% week over week, and their user base is growing 27% week over week. Along the way they have sat down with country leaders, large companies and central bank governors – all sharing a common excitement around SpotPay and the future of global payments. They are just getting started!

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The Problem

They kept noticing the same thing through their lived experience. Modern financial tools continue to feel like a privilege reserved for the rich world. Even with the recent increase in remittance providers, most “innovation” simply stops at the sender side — while the receiver is still stuck with legacy ways of collecting, spending, and managing money.

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The Solution

The team is building SpotPay to change that.

• SpotPay provides every user with a verified wallet that’s tied to their real identity. That foundation lets them issue a SpotPay Credit Card and integrate seamlessly with Apple Pay / Google Pay — even for users who don’t have a bank account in their home country.
• SpotPay also allows merchants to accept QR code payments – avoiding the high card processing fees and gaining access to instant payment settlements since all SpotPay payments are settled on the blockchain. For SMBs, instant settlement often means they can utilize revenue from their sales up to 24 hours faster than they would using traditional finance and maintain healthy cash flows as a result.

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Who is SpotPay for?

Everyone.

They believe everyone deserves access to modern financial tools — especially the hundreds of millions of people around the world who are still unbanked or underbanked.

Because SpotPay verifies each user with their real identity, you do not need a traditional bank account to use it.

Imagine sending money to your aunt in another country, and within seconds she can tap her phone to pay for coffee at a local café.

Now imagine this and countless similar scenarios multiplied across 40+ countries around the world. These are the kinds of early use cases they are already seeing.

They believe that a person’s financial life should not depend on where they live, or what banking system they happen to inherit. They are building SpotPay to make modern money a reality for everyone, everywhere.

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Learn More

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^{Visit www.spotpay.ai to learn more.}

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^{Download SpotPay today! — there’s a good chance they already support the country you’re from and the country you live in, even if those are different places :)}

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^{Share this with anyone who travels, sends money internationally, or receives money across borders.}

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^{Tell them the countries where you’d like to see SpotPay next.}

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^{Follow SpotPay on LinkedIn.}

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