Stablecoins, AI Agents, and The Future of Global Banking

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🗓️ 28 May 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Angela Strange speaks with Dileep Thazhmon, founder and CEO of Jeeves, about building a global financial operating system for enterprises across Latin America using stablecoins and AI. The conversation covers the challenges of building localized financial infrastructure across 25 countries, from regulation and payments to underwriting and compliance. They also discuss why stablecoin adoption is accelerating in Latin America, and how AI is helping Jeeves scale billions in payment volume while automating underwriting, customer support, reconciliation, and KYB workflows.

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0:00.0	The goal with Jeeves is really to build a global business bank that can function in multiple countries.
0:04.4	Stable coins is a lived experience. It's not something that's a theory. In Argentina, 60% of the population use stable coins.
0:11.5	Our revenue has grown 10x or volume is grown 8x. This just wouldn't be possible without yet.
0:16.9	Money is going to become programmable, and hopefully we're at that nexus of all of this happening.
0:21.6	Often when companies start in financial services, just because there's so much product to build,
0:25.9	the tendency is to start the smaller guys, grow with them, and then eventually earn the credibility to get with the bigger guys.
0:31.7	You took the opposite approach.
0:33.9	How did you become relevant to relatively large companies really quickly in the journey?
0:38.3	Our underwriting team today is four people, and that team is doing 2, 3 billion in TPB.
0:43.3	That just wouldn't have been possible two and a half years ago.
0:46.3	You need 15 people just to get that off the ground.
0:48.3	That's what changed.
0:49.3	If you are not AI-pilled, you're not going to make it.
0:52.3	Most financial infrastructure is still fragmented country by country.
0:57.5	Different banks, payment rails, currencies, and compliance systems make it difficult for
1:02.5	global businesses to operate efficiently, especially across emerging markets.
1:07.3	Jeeves is trying to rebuild that stack using stablecoins and AI.
1:11.5	What started as a corporate card company in Latin America has evolved into a broader financial operating system spanning payments, treasury, and expense management across 25 countries.
1:22.2	A16Z's Angela Strange speaks with Jeeves founder and CEO Dilip Tas Tasman about Sablecoins, AI, and building global financial infrastructure.
1:34.1	DeLeep, welcome to the podcast. Thanks for having me. I'm super excited.
1:37.3	Before we dive into Jeeves, I don't think a lot of listeners know your backstory, which is pretty interesting.
1:42.8	You grew up internationally, you've got a tactical background, you started another company, sold it for over $100 million before this. Yeah, so I mean, tell us, tell us about you and how that led you to start your cheese. Yeah, so I was actually born in Nigeria. So I grew up in, we were four different continents, actually. So we moved from Nigeria to Doha, Qatar. So that's where I spent most of my
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