# Yellow Card

> Financial infrastructure that works.

Yellow Card supplies licensed stablecoin payment rails covering treasury, cross-border payments and liquidity for businesses across African markets.

Yellow Card helps businesses expand across Africa through stablecoin-powered payment infrastructure. Users can buy, sell, and store digital assets using local currencies, manage treasury operations, and access cross-border payment solutions. Yellow Card serves as both an on/off ramp and payments API provider across emerging markets.

- Type: Company
- Sector: Payments
- Status: Active
- Founded: 2016-05-01
- Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/yellowcard

## Products

- [Yellow Card Payments API](https://thegrid.id/profiles/yellowcard): Yellow Card Payments API enables businesses to integrate local fiat on/off ramps across African countries, providing stablecoin-powered cross-border payment processing, treasury management, global invoice settlement, and embeddable widgets for digital asset transactions. (Payments Infrastructure & Orchestration, Live, Main Product)
- [Yellow Card Exchange](https://thegrid.id/profiles/yellowcard): Yellow Card Exchange is a centralized platform enabling users to buy, sell, and store cryptocurrencies using local African currencies through multiple payment methods including mobile money and bank transfers. (Centralised Exchange, Discontinued)
- [Yellow Pay](https://thegrid.id/profiles/yellowcard): Yellow Pay enables instant money transfers across African borders using stablecoins as the underlying infrastructure, allowing users to send local currencies directly to recipients. (Peer to Peer & Remittance, Discontinued)

## Links

- [Main](https://yellowcard.io)
- [Documentation](https://docs.yellowcard.engineering)
- [Terms of Service](https://yellowcard.io/legal)
- [Privacy policy](https://yellowcard.io/legal/privacy-policy)
- [Blog](https://yellowcard.io/blog)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/yellowcard_app)
- [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/yellowcardapp)
- [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/yellowcard_app)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/yellowcardapp)
- [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@YellowCardFinancial)

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