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Payward Inc. is the parent company of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, overseeing its trading, custody, and related financial services businesses.
Hyperliquid CEO Jeff Yan wants US regulators to oversee the firms deploying markets on its chain, each of which must stake 500,000 HYPE. Under his model the chain itself sits outside exchange-level rules, and the licence and the liability belong to each operator.
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Kraken parent Payward is buying Saldo Finance, owner of a Lithuanian bank, at an undisclosed price, with closing expected in 2027. Closing needs regulatory approvals, and one deal is thin evidence that exchanges now buy banks.
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Singapore Gulf Bank adopted BNY's 24/7 USD Book Transfers on Oct. 12, letting qualifying dollar transfers settle on weekends and U.S. public holidays. SGB has not disclosed fees, limits or settlement times, so treasurers cannot yet price it.
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Dubai's VARA granted Kraken parent Payward full market approval on October 12, 2026, covering retail, professional and institutional clients. Kraken can start serving UAE clients in the coming weeks, with spot and margin pairs priced in dirhams.
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Wells Fargo is in talks with Kraken parent Payward to supply liquidity and execution for the bank's crypto trading, per individuals familiar. Both companies declined to comment, and the report says a final agreement is not certain.
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Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman said tokenizing collateral could free tens of billions of dollars tied up across the financial system. Quartz reported Nasdaq's venture arm committed $100 million to Kraken's parent Payward in September, with tokenized Nasdaq-listed stocks due in the second quarter of 2027.
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Papertrade opens its HyperEVM perpetuals exchange on Oct. 10 with leverage of up to 1000x. According to crypto.news, its house pool starts empty and fills from traders' losses, so profits it cannot cover wait in a queue.
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Franklin Templeton, a $1.79 trillion manager, asked SEC crypto staff on Oct. 9 whether exemptions could let tokenized money funds and ETFs trade in blockchain pools. Its questions concern the 1940 Act's rules on fund pricing and pooled assets, which sit outside the SEC's Sept. 17 relief for blockchain venues.
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Wells Fargo is in talks to source crypto trading liquidity from Payward, the $21 billion Kraken parent, two people told CoinDesk. A signed contract would let the bank offer crypto execution without building trading infrastructure and would put bank revenue behind Payward's price.
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Hyperliquid Labs confirmed its headquarters is in Singapore, while MAS says the decentralized derivatives venue sits outside its jurisdiction. Its traders rely on self-custody for protection, and Payward's plan for regulated Hyperliquid-based markets for eligible US customers still needs approval, crypto.news reported.
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The oracle deal is the part that lets Apple and NVIDIA tokens be liquidated, which is the part that lets them be borrowed against. The wrapper sits in Abu Dhabi, and US residents are excluded.
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Bloomberg has added 24-hour streaming prices for select Hyperliquid perpetuals, from a venue whose open interest crossed $18 billion in September. Desks can watch on-chain S&P 500 and crude prices beside the cash markets, but every trade still happens off the Terminal.
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Kraken parent Payward is joining Singapore Gulf Bank's SGB Net to settle dollars 24/7 for institutions in Asia and the Gulf. On a network reportedly clearing over $2bn a month, the link may do as much for the bank as for Kraken.
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Modern Treasury has applied to the OCC for a trust bank to custody stablecoins and fiat for clients of a business that has moved over $600 billion. Approval would let its corporate clients hold and move both kinds of balance through one federally supervised entity.
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BNY is in talks with Kraken parent Payward, valued at $21 billion when Nasdaq invested, over a custody, trading and payments partnership, CoinDesk reported. Nothing is signed. One source compares the talks to the infrastructure half of Payward's Nasdaq agreement.
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Coinbase won CFTC registration for its own clearinghouse on September 28, ten months after applying, covering only fully collateralized contracts. Its margined book and planned stock perpetuals still clear through partners, so the leveraged trading that dominates crypto volume stays outside.
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Ondo Finance is selling three BlackRock-modelled portfolio tokens issued by a British Virgin Islands entity that alone owes holders anything. A buyer paying for the BlackRock name holds Ondo's paper, and BlackRock's part is limited to designing the allocation.
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OG.com Markets asked the CFTC to approve cash-settled perpetual futures on single US stocks, trading 24 hours a day on weekdays at a 15.05% minimum margin. At about 6 times leverage they would sell the trade margin accounts now offer, so brokers will pick the winning venue.
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Selected Hyperliquid perpetuals would trade inside a CFTC-regulated venue Payward bought for as much as $550 million, which is about 14% of one day of Hyperliquid volume. The contract list is the product.
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The cheque is small enough to read as a partnership fee, and it arrives with a surveillance contract, a 2027 token launch date, and a quarter in which Payward's adjusted EBITDA fell to $23m on $508m of revenue.
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