Payward

Payward is a financial services company that provides a unified financial infrastructure platform designed to power global markets. Operating as the infrastructure layer for a family of products including Kraken, the company offers systems for holding, trading, earning, paying, and investing across various asset classes. Its shared architecture includes components for liquidity, risk and margin management, settlement, and compliance.

The company supports diverse global markets through a distributed workforce across 14 countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Philippines, and Switzerland. Through its Payward Services division, it also provides a B2B enterprise infrastructure platform that enables partners to integrate stablecoin payments, tokenized asset markets, and global fiat and crypto funding rails.