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Tether has taken a strategic investment in LemFi, a Y-Combinator-backed remittance fintech founded in 2021, with the goal of embedding USDT as a core settlement layer for cross-border money movement across Africa and Asia. The deal size was not disclosed.
The partnership targets two of the world's most remittance-dependent regions, where correspondent banking fees and currency volatility have long made dollar-denominated stablecoin rails an attractive alternative to legacy wire infrastructure. By integrating USDT into LemFi's settlement stack, Tether is effectively placing its stablecoin at the point where migrant workers and diaspora communities convert and move money home.
For Tether, the move continues a pattern of strategic equity stakes in fintechs that embed USDT into real-economy payment flows — a distribution play that extends the stablecoin's footprint well beyond…
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