No. Reap holds Visa Principal Issuing status and the license, so your users can spend digital assets or fiat on a Visa card carrying your brand. Reap also handles design, production and compliance, and approvals in Hong Kong, Singapore and Mexico are already in place.
Your business funds payouts in stablecoins, and Reap converts them to fiat and settles to recipients in 220+ countries and territories. Payouts settle into local fiat across 18+ currencies over SWIFT, SEPA, FPS and FAST. For buying and selling crypto, see On/off-ramps.
Yes. You can fund and settle your program in either fiat or stablecoins. Reap authorizes spend in real time against either balance, on Reap's own ledger.
Card swipes are approved or declined synchronously against a balance on Reap's own ledger. PCI DSS compliance, tokenization and real-time fraud monitoring are built into the infrastructure.
Reap is building Visa Intelligent Commerce, which brings programmable credentials and stablecoin settlement to autonomous payments.