Wharton FinTech Podcast Execution Partner in Stablecoin Payments Adoption
Feb 6, 2026
Dean Brauer, President and COO of Cybrid and seasoned fintech entrepreneur, explains how his API-first platform orchestrates stablecoin, fiat, custody, and compliance. He discusses scaling fintech teams, tailored design partnerships with customers, managed versus self-managed offerings, regulatory clarity like the Genius Act, and practical paths to cross-border stablecoin payments.
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From GoHenry Pain To Cybrid Purpose
- Dean Brauer recounts GoHenry's painful cross-border and batch payment delays that inspired Cybrid.
- He joined Cybrid to make back-end money movement as fast and seamless as front-end experiences.
Orchestration Is The Core Infrastructure
- Cybrid positions itself as an orchestration engine connecting fiat, stablecoins, custody, liquidity, compliance, and ledgers.
- The platform creates a single source of truth regardless of whether funds are fiat or tokenized.
Pick Managed Or Plumb In The Engine
- Choose between Cybrid's managed end-to-end service or its modular self-managed orchestration engine.
- Integrate the self-managed product alongside core banking when you already control banking, liquidity, and compliance.