Anchorage Digital and Grupo Salinas team up to power cross-border payments via stablecoin rails!

Anchorage Digital has struck a cross-border payments partnership with Grupo Salinas, the Mexican conglomerate controlled by billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego, giving the group access to Anchorage's USD-pegged stablecoin infrastructure to move money across borders.

Salinas Pliego is one of Latin America's most prominent bitcoin advocates, making the partnership a notable signal of how crypto-native financial rails are beginning to embed themselves inside major traditional business empires. Grupo Salinas spans retail, banking, and media across Mexico, meaning the stablecoin rails could serve a significant volume of real-world payment flows.

For Anchorage, the deal extends its institutional footprint deeper into Latin America at a moment when USD-pegged stablecoins are gaining serious traction as a remittance and cross-border settlement layer — a market where traditional correspondent…