TrustLinq has expanded its partnership with Ripple, allowing holders of Ripple USD (RLUSD) to pay suppliers, employees and landlords from self-custodial wallets while recipients receive ordinary bank transfers in local currency.
The service, announced in Steinhausen, Switzerland, on 13 October 2026, is available to verified TrustLinq clients holding RLUSD (ERC-20). Payments can be sent to third-party bank accounts in more than 190 countries and across more than 80 currencies.
TrustLinqCH AG, a Swiss-regulated crypto-to-fiat payment platform, uses Ripple Payments settlement infrastructure for its global fiat payouts. The companies had previously worked together on the system used to process those payments.
RLUSD is the US dollar-denominated stablecoin issued by Ripple under a New York Department of Financial Services trust charter. The new service is intended to connect the digital asset with day-to-day financial obligations, including invoices, payroll, contractor payments, rent and tuition.
Clients keep their funds in their own wallet, linked to a dedicated payment vault, until a transaction is executed. TrustLinq then converts the required amount into fiat currency and sends the recipient a bank transfer through SEPA, Faster Payments, ACH, local payment corridors or SWIFT. Most payments arrive on the same or next business day.
Recipients only need a bank account and do not have to use or handle cryptocurrency.
The company said the service targets the limited share of stablecoin activity currently used for real-world payments. Research published by McKinsey and Artemis Analytics in January 2026 estimated that about USD 35 trillion moves annually through stablecoin rails, while roughly USD 390 billion – approximately one percent – represented payments such as payroll, invoices and remittances. Business-to-business transactions were identified as the fastest-growing category.
“Stablecoin holders have never lacked ways to trade; they have lacked ways to pay,” said Lili Metodieva, Co-Founder of TrustLinq. “RLUSD was built as regulated, enterprise-grade digital money, and this expansion gives it the last mile: a supplier invoice in Vietnam, a salary in Germany, rent in Dubai, paid straight from self-custody and arriving as ordinary bank transfers. Swiss regulation is what makes that possible at global scale.”
TrustLinq operates as a Swiss financial intermediary and is subject to anti-money-laundering supervision through SO-FIT, a self-regulatory organisation recognised by FINMA. It said this provides recipient banks with a regulated Swiss counterparty for each transfer.
Customers complete verification during onboarding, after which payments can be initiated within minutes. The platform also supports USDT (ERC-20 and TRC-20), USDC and EURC, as well as RLUSD, for individuals and businesses.
RLUSD payments are immediately available to all verified TrustLinq clients and require no integration. Destination and currency coverage is listed by the company.
TrustLinq said it is a non-custodial intermediary that does not hold client funds and operates in compliance with Swiss anti-money-laundering rules. Its services cover more than 80 currencies using SEPA, SWIFT, Faster Payments and ACH, with debit card solutions planned.
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