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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCircle executives including Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Policy Dante Disparte (Dante Desparte), who visited South Korea on the 22nd, visited Kakao Pay’s Pangyo office to discuss cooperation with Kakao Group to support the domestic digital asset ecosystem. Previn Pillay (Previn Pillay), Circle senior director of financial partnerships; Tae-uk Ryu (\ub958\ud0dc\uc6b1), Kakao vice president; Won-geun Shin (\uc2e0\uc6d0\uadfc), CEO of Kakao Pay; Dante Disparte (Dante Desparte), Circle chief strategy officer and head of global policy; Ho-geun Song (\uc1a1\ud638\uadfc), vice president of KakaoBank; Yam Ki Chan (Yam Ki Chan), Circle head of APAC; and Kyung-hee Son (\uc190\uacbd\ud76c), Kakao Pay vice president, pose for a photo (from left). [Photo: Kakao Pay]<\/p>\n
Kakao Group, including Kakao Corp, Kakao Pay and KakaoBank, is joining hands with global fintech firm Circle to review the possibility of building blockchain-based payment and settlement infrastructure, including a won stablecoin.<\/p>\n
Kakao Group said on Wednesday it signed a memorandum of understanding with Circle Internet Group for strategic cooperation in digital asset technology.<\/p>\n
The two companies plan to combine Kakao Group’s digital platforms and financial services with Circle’s experience in developing blockchain and global payments infrastructure to identify business opportunities in payments, settlement and digital asset-linked areas.<\/p>\n
They also agreed to jointly review the commercialisation potential of won-based digital assets and tokenised financial services in line with changes in the domestic regulatory and market environment.<\/p>\n
They will also review global payments, overseas remittances and merchant settlement measures using Circle’s payments infrastructure. Discussions will include technical cooperation to improve interoperability between blockchain networks and existing financial systems.<\/p>\n
Kakao Group plans to pursue building a digital asset ecosystem by linking Kakao Pay’s payment services and KakaoBank’s financial services based on KakaoTalk.<\/p>\n
It also plans to review ways to create shared infrastructure that would allow domestic operators to develop stablecoin-based services, in addition to its own won stablecoin business.<\/p>\n
Kash Razzaghi (\uce74\uc26c \ub77c\uc790\uae30), Circle’s chief commercial officer, said he hopes to explore opportunities for financial innovation that fit the regulatory environment by combining Circle’s global infrastructure with Kakao Group’s platform and financial services ecosystem.<\/p>\n
Won-geun Shin (\uc2e0\uc6d0\uadfc), CEO of Kakao Pay and co-head of Kakao Group’s stablecoin task force, said Kakao Group will work with Circle to prepare a Korean-style digital asset ecosystem based on its platform and payments and financial services experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Circle executives including Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Policy Dante Disparte (Dante Desparte), who visited South…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[622],"tags":[12438,827,1043,5255,13991],"class_list":["post-95586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kakao","tag-circle","tag-kakao","tag-kakao-pay","tag-kakaobank","tag-korean-won-stablecoin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}