Anzens Partners with SHPayments to Provide EU IBANs to Web3 Businesses

This is encouraging — though only appearing at this point to offer merchant account-like payment services to those on a business budget — since it suggests that at some point soon USDA-based payment services will be available to retail customers.

Many of us in this community are watching for means of avoiding traditional CEX (for brokering between ADA and fiat currency) and then whatever IBAN account integration that exchange offers (OpenPayd, Harmoniie SAS, etc.) for SEPA exchange with a landed bank that can then interface with a transfer service like Wise for remittance / receipt elsewhere. :face_with_spiral_eyes:

Therefore it would be extraordinary for retail users to have a Cardano tailored service (hopefully at low cost, without all these vertically combined components) that would implement this process far more efficiently & consolidate regulatory exposure for both vendor and customer. :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

@Willi_ammmm I have been waiting for you to outline how this might fit into the Anzens/USDA roadmap & partnerships, and hope you can offer this some time soon: i.e. the B2C opportunities & not just the B2B ones. :folded_hands:

p.s. This question is especially important with additional Project Catalyst rounds coming up, with many proposers who are effectively Cardano businesses having to pay partners as individuals would. :face_with_monocle:

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