KAST Welcomes Former SEC Senior Advisor Stephanie Allen to Lead Policy Communications

We’re excited to welcome Stephanie Allen, a former senior advisor at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, as KAST’s Head of Corporate and Policy Communications.

Stephanie will work with Chief Corporate Affairs Officer Brad Jaffe to help scale our external presence and reputation across media, policy stakeholders, and thought leaders as we build a modern financial platform designed to make stablecoins practical and usable in everyday economic life.

This is another significant hire for us, as we have brought on board more than 200 people in the past year across engineering, product, and compliance from across the fintech and crypto ecosystem.

“We’re excited to welcome Stephanie to the KAST team,”

Jaffe said.

“Her knowledge of the policy and regulatory landscape stemming from her leadership position at the SEC and deep U.S. public and private sector experience will help drive KAST’s momentum.”

Stephanie joins as we continue our ambitious growth plans, including the expansion of our product offering and the launch of KAST Business. Her hire follows our record $80 million Series A funding round, which is being deployed to expand across North America, Latin America, and the Middle East, as well as accelerate licensing, compliance, product development, and headcount growth.

“With KAST, people can seamlessly send money all over the world,”

Stephanie said.

“I’m thrilled to join KAST as it embarks on its next stage of growth and am ready to jump in to show the value of a dependable platform that provides people everywhere with stability for all their financial needs.”

At the SEC, Stephanie served as a trusted advisor to leadership on external and internal communications strategies and as a spokesperson for the agency. During her tenure at the SEC, her portfolio included media relations and speechwriting, as well as advising the Crypto Task Force.

Before the SEC, she worked in various leadership roles, including heading communications and marketing for Promontory Financial Group, an IBM Company. Earlier in her career, she was a communications director for two U.S. Senators.

In 2025, global stablecoin transaction volume grew 72%, reaching more than $33 trillion, according to Artemis Analytics. That exceeded the combined annual volume of the world’s largest credit card networks. Stable digital dollars are being used for payments, savings, payroll, and cross-border settlement by individuals and businesses worldwide.

Founded in July 2024 by former Circle executive Raagulan Pathy, we provide USD-denominated accounts, global pay-ins and payouts to more than 170 countries, and a growing suite of consumer and business financial tools built on stablecoin rails rather than legacy settlement networks.