●4-week programme·8h total·5 modules

Stablecoins for Legacy Finance

Delivered live online across four consecutive weeks, with weekly two-hour executive sessions combining structured instruction, institutional case studies, quantified business-case workshops and facilitated executive discussion. Cohort sizes are limited to preserve executive-grade conversation. Participants receive curated material drawn from institutional benchmarks, regulatory texts and global policy publications. The program culminates in a Stablecoin Strategic Roadmap workshop assessed by the faculty. A Certificate of Completion is issued upon successful participation.

What you'll learn

Articulate the precise mechanics, risk profile and institutional relevance of the major stablecoins to their business and operating model.
Construct a quantified business case for stablecoin integration in their institution, including revenue, cost-displacement and capital implications.
Position their institution accurately on the Institutional Stablecoin Engagement Ladder, from compliance posture through to proprietary issuance.
Benchmark their institution credibly against leading global and African deployments.
Map the regulatory environment governing stablecoins across the jurisdictions in which they operate or settle.
Design the governance, risk and compliance architecture required for institutional stablecoin engagement.
Evaluate the build, buy and partner trade-offs that will define the next operating cycle.
Present a board-ready Stablecoin Strategic Roadmap covering position, scope, sequencing and oversight.

Who it's for

C-suite, heads of strategy, product, payments, treasury and innovation at banks, asset managers, PSPs and fintechs.

Prerequisites

Prior completion of Course 01 (Stablecoins: A Strategic Primer).

Programme structure

5 modules · 25 lessons · self-paced after enrollment

Module 1

Introduction

Statement of Program Philosophy, Goals and Delivery
Purpose of the programme
Expected Learning Outcomes
Mode of delivery

Week 1

Week 1 — The Institutional Market Read

The mechanics of fiat-collateralised stablecoins and the structural distinction between USDC and tokenised deposits.
The global stablecoin ecosystem, dominant networks and the African operators reshaping payment corridors.
Risk profile analysis: depeg dynamics, reserve quality, custody architecture and smart-contract dependencies.
The institutional question, applied separately to banks, asset managers, PSPs and fintechs.

Week 2

Week 2 — The Business Case: Revenue, Cost and Strategic Position

Banks: custody, tokenised deposits, treasury, trade finance and programmable settlement.
PSPs: settlement displacement, real-time cross-border payouts, embedded wallets and merchant acquiring.
Asset managers: tokenised cash-equivalents, on-chain treasury and stablecoin-denominated funds.
Fintechs: B2B corridors, gig-economy and contractor payouts, treasury yield and DeFi-adjacent opportunities.
Institutional case studies: JPMorgan Onyx, PayPal PYUSD, Stripe and Bridge, Société Générale EUR CoinVertible, Yellow Card and Leatherback.
Quantified business-case construction for participants' own institutions.

Week 3

Week 3 — Regulatory and Risk Architecture

The regulatory map: MiCA (EU), the GENIUS Act (US), the UAE Payment Token Services Regulation, MAS, the Kenya VASP Act and the wider African and Asian environment.
AML and CFT obligations, the Travel Rule and sanctions exposure.
Basel III treatment of stablecoin and tokenised-deposit exposures.
The institutional compliance architecture for stablecoin engagement.
Reputational and correspondent-banking implications.
Board, audit-committee and risk-committee positioning.

Week 4

Week 4 — The Strategic Roadmap

The Institutional Stablecoin Engagement Ladder: policy and client servicing through to custody, distribution and proprietary issuance.
Build, buy and partner: structured analysis applied to participants' institutions.
The Minimum Viable Stablecoin Product.
Global benchmarking against best-in-class deployments.
Workshop: presentation of a board-ready Stablecoin Strategic Roadmap.