🌍💳 Yellow Card Expands Crypto Payments with Lightspark — No Mastercard Deal Yet for CEMEA! 🚀🔐
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✅ Confirmed: Yellow Card + Lightspark (Not Mastercard)
Yellow Card (a leading fiat‑to‑crypto on/off‑ramp in Africa) has partnered with Lightspark to integrate Universal Money Address (UMA) payments across 20 countriesnewsroom.mastercard.com+6uae.fintechnews.pk+6newsroom.orange.com+6newsroom.mastercard.com+6lightspark.com+6coinmarketcap.com+6.
This enables fiat-to-fiat and fiat-to-BTC payments via UMA, which acts like a global email address for money transfers.
The service supports instant payouts via mobile money and bank transfers, live in early2025coinmarketcap.com+2lightspark.com+2thepaypers.com+2.
🎯 What That Means
Yellow Card + Lightspark = crypto-enabled, cross-border payments using blockchain rails.
Businesses and consumers benefit from low-cost, instant, and global transfers using UMA.
🧩 Mastercard’s Actual CEMEA Partnerships
Mastercard has teamed up with regional players—but not Yellow Card:
Partnered with GIM-UEMOA (West African Monetary Union) to expand digital/prepaid card usagethepaypers.com+2lightspark.com+2coinmarketcap.com+2coinmarketcap.com+1lightspark.com+1newsroom.orange.com+3newsroom.mastercard.com+3en.wikipedia.org+3.
Teamed with Orange Middle East & Africa to issue virtual and physical debit cards via Orange Money wallets across 7 countriesnewsroom.mastercard.com+6newsroom.mastercard.com+6newsroom.orange.com+6.
These remain traditional fiat payment initiatives, not tied to Yellow Card or crypto.
🧾 Summary
✅ Yellow Card + Lightspark is all about blockchain-enabled cross-border payments in Africa.
❌ No Mastercard collaboration with Yellow Card in CEMEA.
✔️ Mastercard is pushing fiat inclusion, but through other partners like GIM-UEMOA and Orange Money.
