The check casher is an American word. The counter is everywhere.
Casa de cambio. Bureau de change. Locutorio. Kantor. Tabaccheria. Exchange house. Mobile money agent. Sari-sari store. Spaza shop. Tiệm vàng. Different names, same business: a trusted local counter where people who deal in cash go to move money.
- Five regions
- Twenty-four markets
- Local counter formats named
- Availability follows licensing
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Why this is a global model, not an American one
The retail counter is how most of the world's population actually accesses financial services. Bank branches are the exception in much of Latin America, Africa, South and Southeast Asia and the Middle East; the shop, the exchange office, the agent outlet and the remittance window are the rule.
Those counters already do the two things this program needs: they identify customers and they handle cash. And in market after market their customers have already moved into dollar stablecoins — for savings where the local currency is under pressure, and for transfers where conventional rails are slow or expensive. The demand arrived before the product did.
Anytime Capital's retail counter is live in the United States. International partner locations are onboarded market by market as local licensing allows, so the first conversation is always about what is possible where your store actually is.
Anytime Capital runs its own branches in Atlanta and Miami. Partner stores run the same counter service.
What the counter is called, market by market
In Mexico it is a casa de cambio or a tiendita. In the Dominican Republic it is a colmado or a banca. In Brazil it is a lotérica acting as a banking correspondent. In Spain it is a locutorio; in Poland a kantor; in Italy a tabaccheria. In Nigeria it is a POS agent; in Kenya an M-Pesa agent; in South Africa a spaza shop. In the Philippines it is a pawnshop remittance counter; in Indonesia a warung; in Vietnam a gold shop; in India a kirana store acting as a business correspondent. In the Gulf it is an exchange house; in Turkey a döviz bürosu.
Every one of them is a small, trusted, staffed counter that takes cash from people the banking system serves badly. That is the whole addressable market for this model, and it is enormous.
The country pages below name the format, the corridors and the regulatory position for each market, because a store owner searching in their own market uses their own word — not ours.
Where the demand actually comes from
Two drivers, in different proportions per market. The first is currency: in economies under sustained depreciation — Argentina, Turkey, Nigeria, Ghana — households hold dollars as ordinary financial management, and a dollar stablecoin is simply a more practical dollar. The second is corridors: in remittance economies — the Philippines, Mexico, El Salvador, India, the Gulf-to-South-Asia flows — stablecoins compete directly on speed and cost against conventional rails.
Markets with both, like Ghana or Colombia, tend to see the steadiest counter demand, because the two drivers are uncorrelated.
In neither case is the customer trading. They are protecting value or moving it, which is why the demand shows up at counters rather than on exchanges — and why the counter is the right place to serve it.
By region
Five regions
Each region page covers the counter formats, corridors and regulatory shape of its markets.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the program live outside the United States today?
Anytime Capital's retail counter is live in the United States. International partner locations are onboarded market by market as local licensing allows, so the first conversation is always about what is possible where your store actually is. These pages describe how the model maps onto each market's counter economy; they are not a claim that we are already licensed there.
Which international formats fit best?
Licensed exchange counters — Gulf exchange houses, Polish kantors, Mexican casas de cambio, Philippine pawnshop remittance counters — because the counter model, the identification habits and the customer expectation are already exactly right.
Is the demand stablecoins or Bitcoin?
Outside the United States it is overwhelmingly dollar stablecoins, because the two drivers are currency protection and cross-border payment. Bitcoin is a secondary demand in most of these markets.
How does a store in another country get started?
The same way as a US one: talk to the retail team about where the counter is and what your customers are asking for. The first thing we will tell you is whether the market is open to us yet.
Tell us which market you are in
We will be straight with you about what is possible where your counter actually is, rather than starting an onboarding that cannot finish.