Payward, Inc., founded in 2011, is the parent company of Kraken and a portfolio spanning digital-asset trading, custody, payments, lending, onchain finance and financial infrastructure for consumer, institutional and enterprise markets.
Payward, Inc. is the parent company behind Kraken and a wider multi-asset portfolio of financial products. Founded in 2011, the firm operates across digital-asset trading, custody, payments, lending, onchain finance, market data, financial infrastructure and benchmarks, serving consumer, institutional and enterprise markets from a global base spanning more than 100 markets.
Its best-known product, Kraken, is a digital-asset trading and financial-products platform. NinjaTrader and xStocks are further components of the portfolio. Payward Services is a unified integration platform for banks, fintechs, brokerages and payment providers, covering trading, payments, funding and digital-asset services; it coordinates liquidity, custody, compliance, risk management and settlement, and supports payment and treasury flows across more than 100 markets.
Technical work at Payward spans liquidity coordination, compliance, risk management, settlement and financial systems integration. The stated strategy is to connect traditional and digital financial systems on shared infrastructure, in pursuit of an open, global financial system. Roles are situated within a worldwide operation, with payment and treasury activity reaching more than 100 markets.
