London, United Kingdom, January 27th, 2026, Chainwire
Archax, the first FCA-regulated digital asset exchange, broker, and custodian, has announced a partnership with OpenPayd, a leading provider of financial infrastructure, to streamline fiat settlement across its global trading operations. The partnership addresses a critical bottleneck for digital asset markets as institutional participation grows and settlement workflows require greater operational resilience at scale.
Archax will use OpenPayd’s regulated financial infrastructure to facilitate instant GBP, EUR, and USD fiat settlement, with flows moving primarily between Archax and its network of institutional liquidity partners. The shared environment reduces settlement friction, accelerates reconciliation, and enhances operational synergies across the institutional digital asset trading ecosystem. The platform also supports withdrawal and settlement activity for Archax’s clients.
OpenPayd’s account structure provides Archax with a unified, compliant treasury environment for managing multi-currency flows across its core fiat currencies. This centralised model reduces operational complexity, shortens settlement cycles with liquidity partners, and improves visibility and reconciliation across multi-currency fiat flows – capabilities that are increasingly vital for institutional participants executing sophisticated digital asset trading strategies.
Graham Rodford, CEO and co-founder of Archax, commented: “As the adoption of digital assets by institutions continues to grow and scale, it is vital to have credible, streamlined, efficient fiat payment and settlement rails in place to support them – as well as to explore new innovations like stablecoins and digital cash. This partnership with OpenPayd does just that. We are pleased to be working with them to leverage their proven infrastructure and deliver further on our vision.”
Iana Dimitrova, CEO at OpenPayd, adds: “Archax has built one of the most credible institutional platforms in digital assets, combining regulatory clarity with deep liquidity. By supporting their multi-currency settlement infrastructure, we’re eliminating friction in the fiat-to-crypto interface, where many institutional players still face operational headaches. Together, we’re helping make institutional digital asset trading more reliable and operationally seamless.”
About Archax
Archax is a regulated digital asset platform based in the UK, EU, US, and UAE, and targeted at professionals and institutions globally.
Founded by experts from traditional capital markets, Archax supports all types of digital assets – from unregulated cryptocurrencies through to regulated tokenised real-world assets (RWAs).
Archax also covers the full digital lifecycle from token issuance and fundraising through to trading and custody.
Archax provides the global, regulated on-chain capital markets infrastructure that allows traditional financial markets participants to bridge into the digital/crypto/DeFi space.
For more information, visit http://www.archax.com or contact [email protected].
About OpenPayd
OpenPayd is building the universal financial infrastructure for the digital economy. Their rails-agnostic platform enables businesses to move and manage money globally – across fiat and digital assets – through a single, powerful API. OpenPayd provides embedded accounts, FX, domestic and international payments, Open Banking, and stablecoin on/off ramps – delivering interoperability between traditional finance and digital assets. With one of the most comprehensive banking networks in the market, OpenPayd enables real-time money movement, everywhere.
Trusted by global brands including eToro, Kraken, OKX, and B2C2, they process more than €130 billion in annual volumes for over 800 businesses. OpenPayd is the infrastructure layer powering the next generation of financial services.
