Anchorage Digital and Mexican conglomerate Grupo Salinas have announced a partnership to modernize cross-border settlement through federally regulated stablecoins. The collaboration, revealed on May 13, 2026, will see Gruppo Salinas integrate Anchorage Digital’s bank‑chartered stablecoin infrastructure via its crypto arm Coinpro, with the goal of compressing fund settlement cycles and bringing real‑time programmable liquidity to its financial services network.
The arrangement taps Anchorage Digital’s newly launched Stablecoin Solutions for Banks platform, which gives institutions access to dollar‑linked digital assets issued and custodied by federally chartered Anchorage Digital Bank N.A. Grupo Salinas, owned by Ricardo Salinas Pliego, plans to deploy these blockchain‑based rails primarily into Grupo Elektra, the conglomerate’s retail and financial services unit. According to the announcement, the move will reduce friction in international money transfers, offering greater transparency and control over corporate governance of assets during the settlement process. “Stablecoins are no longer just exchange instruments; they’ve become core financial infrastructure,” said Nathan McCauley, co‑founder and CEO of Anchorage Digital. Carlos Díaz Alonso, an executive at Grupo Salinas, added that the partnership will focus on co‑developing more efficient payment channels for Elektra users.
The deal underscores the accelerating shift of stablecoins from crypto trading liquidity tools into payment and treasury infrastructure for large institutions. Anchorage Digital’s federally regulated status, including its US bank charter, gives it a unique position to serve institutional clients that require regulatory clarity and compliance frameworks. The Latin American market, where demand for dollar liquidity and efficient cross‑border payments remains high, has become a key proving ground for these solutions. The partnership follows Anchorage’s earlier work with Western Union, which launched a dollar‑denominated stablecoin on Solana. As stablecoin oversight intensifies globally, such alliances signal that institutional adoption is increasingly driven by operational efficiency and regulatory certainty rather than purely speculative use cases.
