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Jul 23, 2026 Payward named to CNBC's World's Top Fintech Companies 2026 Award
Jul 22, 2026 Payward and GTN partner to expand global capital market access through xStocks Partnership
Jul 16, 2026 OKX launches tokenized stocks built on xStocks xStocks
Jul 2, 2026 One year of xStocks Milestone
Jul 1, 2026 Payward closes on Reap Acquisition
Jun 29, 2026 Payward Services opens pre-IPO access to Bending Spoons Services
Jun 23, 2026 Payward secures VASP registrations in British Virgin Islands Regulatory
May 28, 2026 Payward secures VARA authorization in UAE, enabling regional expansion Regulatory
May 18, 2026 Q1 2026 Payward financial highlights Financials
May 14, 2026 Payward files application for OCC National Trust Company Regulatory
May 12, 2026 Payward and Franklin Templeton announce strategic collaboration on tokenized assets Partnership
May 7, 2026 Payward to acquire Reap to expand B2B payments infrastructure Acquisition
May 1, 2026 Payward completes acquisition of Bitnomial—first fully CFTC-licensed crypto-native derivatives stack in the US Acquisition
Apr 6, 2026 Payward appoints Robert Moore as Chief Financial Officer Leadership
Mar 12, 2026 Introducing Payward Services: infrastructure for the new economy Product
Mar 9, 2026 Payward partners with Nasdaq on xStocks-powered gateway for tokenized equities Partnership
Mar 4, 2026 Kraken becomes first digital asset bank to receive a Federal Reserve master account Milestone
Feb 3, 2026 2025 financial highlights—adjusted revenue up 33% to $2.2B Financials
Feb 2, 2026 Kraken raises $800 million to advance its strategic roadmap Funding
Feb 2, 2026 Kraken announces confidential submission of draft registration statement for proposed IPO IPO

In the news

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CoinDesk

Payward's Q1 revenue climbs despite crypto market slump

May 18, 2026

 Wall Street Journal

Nasdaq partners with Kraken for 24/7 tokenized stock trading

March 9, 2026

 Bloomberg

Kraken parent to buy Reap for $600M in Asian expansion

May 7, 2026

 Wall Street Journal

First crypto firm to win access to Fed's core payments system

March 4, 2026

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Payward, Inc. is a unified financial infrastructure platform that powers a family of products advancing an open, global financial system. Built on a single shared architecture, Payward enables customers to hold, trade, earn, pay, and invest across asset classes without friction or fragmentation.

At its core, Payward provides the infrastructure layer behind Kraken and a growing set of purpose-built products, including NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, and CF Benchmarks.

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