> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://stablecoininsider.org/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # New Report: Money Moves East - The Stablecoin Corridors in Asia in 2026 - URL: https://stablecoininsider.org/new-report-money-moves-east-the-stablecoin-corridors-in-asia-in-2026/ - Published: 2026-09-16T10:00:26.000Z - Updated: 2026-09-16T10:00:25.000Z - Description: Today, we are thrilled to release Money Moves East: The Stablecoin Corridors in Asia in 2026, a comprehensive guide to the regulators, operators, and corridors turning APAC into the world's most licensed stablecoin economy. - Author: Alexandra - Tags: Report In the twelve months to September 2026, Hong Kong granted its first two stablecoin issuer licences, Japan put a trust-bank yen stablecoin into live issuance, Taiwan passed a dedicated virtual asset statute, and Singapore published the draft legislation that will write its stablecoin framework into law. No other region has shipped this many named-issuer regimes in a single year. And the pull behind that sprint is enormous: APAC's outbound cross-border payments hit $13.5 trillion in 2025, India and the Philippines remain two of the world's largest remittance recipients, and Asia already originates roughly 60% of the world's genuine stablecoin payment volume. > **What makes APAC distinct is that regulated stablecoins are arriving as licensed financial infrastructure rather than as workarounds.** Today, we are thrilled to release [**Money Moves East: The Stablecoin Corridors in Asia in 2026**](https://tally.so/r/A7glPy), a comprehensive guide to the regulators, operators, and corridors turning APAC into the world's most licensed stablecoin economy. [Download Your Copy](https://tally.so/r/A7glPy) --- ## Insights from the Front Lines This report isn't just data, it features exclusive perspectives from the operators building APAC's corridors: > "Licensing opens the door, but operations decide who walks through it." — **Justin Wang, CEO, Capital Layer** > "Reaching a payout location is easy to claim. Reaching it with regulated settlement on both ends is not. That distinction is the whole game." — **Gustavo Ruiz, Chairman & CEO, Movantis** > "The question isn't whether agentic payments end up on stablecoin rails, it's how quickly the tooling around identity, compliance, and control catches up." — **Anna Chiu, Head of Agentic Payments, Reap** > *"Stablecoins in B2B are past the proof-of-concept stage. The next phase is not about creating more protocols, but making regulated digital money genuinely useful to businesses and recognised as part of mainstream financial infrastructure."* — **Arnoud Star Busmann, Advisor to STABO and former CEO of a MiCAR-regulated stablecoin issuer** > "Businesses are increasingly choosing stablecoins where traditional cross-border payments create the most friction." — **Eric Barbier, CEO, Triple-A** - +many more insights from industry leaders --- ## Inside the Report [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/73/6a/736af0e4-2274-4543-a329-2952b2b52abc/content/images/2026/09/APAC-REPORT-COVER-PAGE.png)](https://tally.so/r/A7glPy) Our team, alongside five operators that each own a distinct layer of APAC's stablecoin stack, has mapped the region corridor by corridor to show you where regulated money is actually moving. ### What You'll Find in The Report: - **The Regulatory Map:** A side-by-side breakdown of Singapore's MAS framework, Hong Kong's Stablecoins Ordinance, Japan's three-lane yen stack, and Taiwan's Virtual Asset Service Act, plus a watchlist on South Korea, Australia, and the UAE's new dirham stablecoins, and what "licensed" actually unlocks. - **The Numbers That Matter:** Why stablecoin volume ranges from $10 trillion to $390 billion depending on what you count, the $308 billion market cap decoupling from crypto cycles, and the corridor, adoption, and M&A data behind Asia's lead, including Payward's up-to-$600 million acquisition of Reap. - **Who Is Building the Corridors:** First-party data from Capital Layer on bank connectivity and trade settlement, Reap on stablecoin-funded corporate cards, Triple-A on merchant acceptance, STABO on enterprise treasury and collections, and Movantis on the hybrid fiat-plus-stablecoin remittance model. - **Corridor Analysis:** Intra-APAC (SG ↔ HK ↔ JP and TW ↔ JP ↔ KR), APAC–US, APAC–Middle East, and the high-volume remittance lanes from the US and Gulf into the Philippines, India, and Indonesia, with cost benchmarks against correspondent banking. - **What Traditional Finance Needs to Know:** Legacy rails versus stablecoin rails, what changes on the balance sheet, what doesn't, and practical entry points by jurisdiction. - **Outlook 2026–2027:** Which licences clear next, where multi-currency settlement consolidates, the regulatory arbitrage that closes, and the forward view on agentic payments and B2B automation. --- ## Our Partners & Contributors We are proud to be supported by the operators building APAC's regulated stablecoin infrastructure: > **Capital Layer · Movantis · Reap · STABO · Triple-A** With additional contributions from AUDC and Green Link Digital Bank. [**AUDC**](https://www.audd.digital/audd-stablecoin/)**:** Issuer of AUDD, Australia's regulated 1:1 Australian dollar stablecoin, live across eight blockchains under an ASIC-granted financial services licence. [**Capital Layer**](https://capitallayer.com/)**:** Asia's digital asset orchestration layer, coordinating stablecoin settlement, custody and compliance between the region's banks, enterprises and infrastructure providers. [**Green Link Digital Bank**](https://www.glbank.com/)**:** A Singapore-licensed digital wholesale bank bringing regulated banking rails and supply-chain finance expertise to stablecoin and tokenised settlement. [**Movantis**](https://www.movantis.com/)**:** Regulated financial infrastructure for cross-border value movement across the Americas and beyond, combining payments, remittances, FX, wallet infrastructure, card issuing, and stablecoin settlement through one integration. $63B+ in annual volume. Circle Payments Network member. [**Reap**](https://reap.global/)**:** Hong Kong-based payments infrastructure that lets businesses spend, send and settle in stablecoins through cards and API-driven money movement. [**STABO**](https://www.stabo.io/)**:** A Hong Kong-licensed clearing layer that connects banking rails and stablecoin liquidity so businesses can accept, convert and settle fiat and stablecoins in one flow. [**Triple-A**](https://www.triple-a.io/)**:** A global payment institution licensed across Singapore, Europe and the United States, enabling businesses to accept and make stablecoin payments with settlement in local currencies. ## Ready to see where money is moving in Asia? ## Download Report [DOWNLOAD HERE](https://tally.so/r/A7glPy) Thank you for your trust and for being part of this shift. --- ## Related Reports - [**The LATAM Stablecoin Economy 2026**](https://stablecoininsider.org/new-stablecoin-insider-report-the-latam-stablecoin-economy-2026/) - [**Into B2B Stablecoins**](https://stablecoininsider.org/new-stablecoin-insider-report-into-b2b-stablecoins/) - [**Mapping the Stablecoin Value Chain 2026**](https://stablecoininsider.org/new-report-mapping-the-stablecoin-value-chain/) --- ## Partner/Advertise with Stablecoin Insider [**Fill out this form**](https://form.typeform.com/to/c5cdIHp0?typeform-source=www.stablecoininsider.com&ref=stablecoininsider.com) to partner and advertise on the only publication dedicated entirely to the Stablecoin ecosystem. See you in the corridors, - The Stablecoin Insider team