Hecto Financial and Triple-A Sign MOU for Stablecoin Payments and Settlements

The Partnership

February 5th, 2026: Fintech company Hecto Financial and Triple-A have announced their collaboration to build global payment and settlement services using stablecoins.

Both companies signed a business cooperation memorandum of understanding on February 5th at Hecto Financial’s headquarters in Yeoksam-dong, Seoul. Hecto Financial CEO Choi Jong-won (최종원), Triple-A CEO Eric Barbier, and officials from both companies attended the signing.

Triple-A is a globally licensed financial institution that helps companies worldwide make payments and settlements in stablecoins and local currencies. It uses stablecoins to improve inefficiencies in existing overseas payment and settlement processes. It currently provides payment services to about 20,000 corporate customers in more than 120 countries across Asia, Europe and the Americas.

Under the agreement, the companies plan to keep pursuing efforts including jointly reviewing and discussing cooperation models for stablecoin-based payment and settlement structures, jointly identifying business opportunities in the global cross-border payments market, and building a cooperative relationship to respond to rapidly changing global payment trends.

Through the MOU, Hecto Financial plans to quickly internalize global payment and settlement services using stablecoins.

It will offer stablecoin-based payment and settlement services, particularly to merchants with a high share of overseas transactions, to broaden their payment options and improve payment efficiency. Triple-A will support the expansion of stablecoin payments and settlements, drawing on its experience operating global services and its overseas payments network.

The companies will also actively share their financial infrastructure and service-operation know-how and jointly explore business planning and service expansion for next-generation payment and settlement methods, including stablecoins.

"We will continue to strengthen our competitiveness in the global payments market by linking traditional payment and settlement infrastructure with new payment methods such as stablecoins," Choi said. "We will serve as a payment hub connecting global platforms that want to enter South Korea with domestic merchants preparing to expand overseas," he said.