At the Meridian 2026 conference in Lisbon, Movantis announced its integration with the Stellar network, adding it to the company’s multi-track infrastructure, initially for USDC settlement on cross-border payment flows from the United States to El Salvador.
Lisbon, Portugal, October 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — At Meridian 2026, the annual flagship conference of the Stellar Development Foundation, Movantis, which provides a unified financial infrastructure platform enabling businesses to transfer value across global markets, announced it has completed integration with the Stellar network.
This partnership integrates the Stellar network as an additional digital settlement rail within Movantis’s architecture. The Stellar network will accelerate digital settlement, while Movantis leverages its connections to regulated local infrastructure and partners to provide liquidity, fiat conversion when needed, and last-mile payment disbursement.
For Movantis, this integration is part of its broader multi-track strategy. Traditional banking infrastructure, local payment systems, and digital settlement rails each play a role, enabling the platform to achieve greater flexibility and resilience across different markets. The Stellar network provides an additional blockchain settlement rail, which Movantis connects to regulated markets and local payment infrastructures.
The first planned use case will focus on transferring value from the United States to El Salvador. Movantis plans to use USDC on the Stellar network as the settlement layer through its regulated subsidiary, supported by local partners for exchange and last-mile payments. Since El Salvador is a dollarized economy, it serves as a natural starting point: funds are settled in USDC and disbursed to recipients in U.S. dollars, eliminating additional currency exposure.
For businesses and end users, the blockchain layer will operate in the background. They will continue to use familiar currencies and payment experiences, while settlement will run 24/7, including weekends and holidays. Movantis says this reduces the amount of capital that remittance companies and businesses need to pre-fund in this corridor.
This integration is also designed to operate in reverse. Businesses operating on the Stellar network will be able to reach recipients in Latin America through Movantis, settling in stablecoins and completing local payments. Money transfer companies, fintech firms, and wallet providers will also be able to access this corridor through the same Movantis interface they already use for other markets.
Robert Gatto, Chief Revenue Officer at Movantis, said: “Cross-border payments don’t require a single winning pathway—they need infrastructure that allows the right pathway to be used for each step of the transaction. Stellar provides us with another efficient settlement option, and our job is to ensure this speed ultimately translates into U.S. dollars that businesses and households in El Salvador can actually use.”
Jose Fernandez da Ponte, President and Chief Growth Officer of the Stellar Development Foundation, said: “Movantis has spent two decades building local partnerships and payment networks designed to enable seamless cross-border payments across the Americas—exactly the foundation that the Stellar network was originally created to support. By integrating the Stellar network as a settlement option, starting with the U.S. to El Salvador corridor, we aim to provide faster and more efficient settlement support for businesses and individuals who rely on these cash flows daily.”
Movantis notes that digital rails are new, but cross-border remittances are not. For over two decades, Movantis has handled the most challenging aspects in some of the most complex markets across the Americas: obtaining licenses, establishing local partnerships, liquidity, and last-mile payment capabilities to enable cross-border payments. Today, its network processes over $60 billion in annual transaction volume, covering more than 200 million transactions and over 90,000 payout locations. The Stellar network is now integrated into this infrastructure.
Except for El Salvador, Movantis expects this architecture to support additional B2B and consumer payment flows, enabling businesses across Europe, Asia, and throughout Latin America to operate in the region with a single integration. The goal is not to replace existing rails, but to add another settlement option—via institutional stablecoins—to Movantis’s multi-rail infrastructure, allowing businesses to collect, exchange, settle, and pay in Latin America with a single integration, whether using fiat or stablecoins.
About Movantis
Movantis is a trademark representing the comprehensive capabilities, products, and services offered by Transnetwork LLC and its subsidiaries. Companies using the Movantis brand deliver a unified financial infrastructure through a single integration, enabling businesses to transfer value across global markets. Built on over 20 years of experience in the Americas, the platform supports more than 200 million transactions annually, connects to over 130 countries, and provides access to more than 90,000 payment points. Through its infrastructure, locally regulated entities, and authorized partners, Movantis links the global financial ecosystem with local market access, supporting cross-border and embedded operations across multiple markets. All services described herein are provided by locally regulated entities or authorized partners and are subject to applicable laws and regulations in each jurisdiction. Website: www.movantis.com.
About the Stellar Network
The Stellar network is a decentralized, fast, and scalable blockchain built for financial products and services. It supports smart contracts and enables the issuance, management, and transfer of regulated real-world assets at an institutional scale.
The related assets can be fully decentralized or configured with KYC, recourse, and sanctions compliance features.
Open means no vendor lock-in; configurable means it can meet enterprise-grade requirements. The Stellar network has been serving payment and financial use cases since 2014.
For more information, visit: https://stellar.org/foundation
Media contact
Movantis: Sofia Conde, Event Manager and Head of Third-Party Associations, [email protected]