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TL;DR

• Payward Services is a B2B infrastructure platform built on Kraken’s 15-year operating history, offering companies a single integration for stablecoin payments, tokenized asset markets, digital asset trading, staking, lending and global fiat and crypto funding rails.

• Unlike fragmented multi-vendor approaches, Payward Services provides unified crypto infrastructure with coordinated liquidity, custody, compliance, risk management and settlement capabilities, reducing operational complexity for fintechs, banks, brokerages, payment providers and global platforms.

• Payward Services represents Kraken’s entry into the enterprise crypto infrastructure market, enabling partners to build and scale always-on financial products including perpetuals, futures, prediction markets, tokenized equities and stablecoin-based payment rails as part of the broader shift toward programmable capital and continuous markets.

A new phase for global finance

Global finance is entering a new phase. Markets are moving toward real-time settlement. Stablecoins are enabling borderless value transfer, accelerating global money movement. Assets are increasingly being tokenized, and capital markets are expanding to include natively digital instruments.