what's Payward Services?

Payward Services is a B2B infrastructure platform offering unified crypto services built on 15 years of Kraken's operational experience. It provides a single integration for digital asset trading, custody, staking and lending, stablecoin payments, tokenized asset markets, and global fiat/crypto funding rails. Designed for fintechs, banks, brokerages, and payment providers, it coordinates liquidity, compliance, risk management, and settlement to simplify building scalable financial products. The platform supports always-on markets with modular components including execution engines, automated workflows, and real-time borderless settlement via stablecoins. It enables programmable capital flows, reducing operational friction and reconciliation points while ensuring consistent risk controls across trading, custody, and payments.[[1]](https://blog.kraken.com/product/payward-services/infrastructure-for-the-new-economy)

Payward Services unifies digital asset trading, custody, staking, lending, payments, and tokenized markets for partners.