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Payward, Inc.
Payward, Inc. is a global financial infrastructure company and the parent organization behind Kraken. It provides trading, custody, payments, lending, staking, tokenized assets, derivatives, and market data infrastructure to consumers, professional traders, institutions, enterprises, fintechs, banks, exchanges, asset managers, and onchain platforms.
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Payward is the parent company behind Kraken and related products across crypto trading, custody, payments, lending, onchain finance, and benchmarks. It positions itself as infrastructure for open, programmable global markets, connecting crypto, tokenized assets, and traditional finance through a shared interoperable stack. The company says it operates across 190+ jurisdictions and holds 100+ licenses and registrations spanning crypto, securities, derivatives, payments, money transmission, banking, and lending.Category: Infrastructure
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Payward Services gives fintechs, banks, exchanges, asset managers, consumer technology and neobank companies, and DeFi or onchain protocols access to infrastructure powered by Kraken. Its offerings include crypto trading, fiat on/off-ramps, tokenized equities, derivatives and prediction markets, staking and yield, indices and market data, and card issuance and payments.Category: Service Provider