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Special Edition: Network Effect Podcast With Ahmed Zifzaf

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🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Recorded live from the Global Dollar Network event, Network Effect in New York City please enjoy this conversation with Ahmed Zifzaf, Head of Crypto Partnerships, WorldPay and CoinDesk Indices' Andy Baehr.


#stablecoin #digitalfinance #finance #crypto #GlobalDollarNetwork

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0:00.0

Good morning. We're here at Network Effect with the Global Dollar Network. I'm Andy Baer, head of product and research at Coin Desk Indices. I'm here with Ahmed Zifstaff, the head of crypto partnerships at WorldPay. Good morning. Nice to have you. Nice to meet you. Thanks for having me. Really excited about it.

0:19.0

I, you know, World Pay. I've learned a little bit about it in prep, but it's not a brand

0:23.5

name.

0:24.5

I don't see it on the shelf at the store.

0:25.4

So maybe, and I know it's a huge company, fill the audience in on what World Pay does and

0:30.8

how big it is and how long it's been doing what it's doing.

0:33.4

Yeah, for sure. World Pay is one of the largest global merchant acquires in the world. We do about

0:38.5

over $2 trillion in payment volume a year. So you can think about it as when you go to a grocery

0:44.1

store and you pay with your credit card, that one second before that payment is processed. In the

0:48.8

background, it's World Pay often, or companies like World Pay, processing that payment and making

0:53.2

sure that it's all going

0:54.2

smoothly without fraud effectively. So you can really view us as sort of a cornerstone of the

1:00.3

whole payments, traditional payments sort of system and rails. I understand. And so crypto partnerships,

1:06.9

they must have, you know, you must be in a little corner spot there. Everybody's looking,

1:10.7

what's Ahmed doing over there, right?

1:12.6

Because it's quite a departure from the normal business.

1:15.6

Yeah, I would say so.

1:16.6

I really like to view it as where a lot of like the innovation or the view of blockchain kind of sits within my team.

1:23.6

So everything in regards to how do we deploy stable coins when we do cross-border payments?

1:29.3

What types of assets do our customers sort of like will they want to use and how do we really pilot that and show them how effective it is?

1:36.3

So a lot of what I get to do is look at the future of payments and see how we can basically create a really great experience for our merchants.

1:45.0

Is your mindset more, I'm going to build this and it's going to be great and people will use it?

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