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OpenPayd

  • Name: OpenPayd
  • URL: https://www.openpayd.com/
  • Category: embedded financial infrastructure / stablecoin and fiat settlement control plane / API-led accounts-payments-FX platform
  • Tags: ethereum-ecosystem
  • Summary: OpenPayd is a regulated account-and-settlement control plane: accounts, payments, FX, virtual IBANs, stablecoins, and linked-client hierarchies under one vendor surface. The useful part is the operating stack, plus the explicit split between its fiat-payment entities and digital-asset entities, not the generic banking API label.
  • What it does:
    • Provides a single API-led platform for accounts, payments, FX, stablecoins, and on/off-ramp flows, with dashboard and OTC-desk access alongside the API
    • Lets businesses create and manage multi-currency accounts across 35+ major currencies and access 49 currency pairs with instant FX settlement
    • Supports unlimited named virtual IBANs for underlying customers, with pooled-account infrastructure and automated reconciliation flows
    • Lets platforms onboard linked business or individual customers in a parent-child model so those customers can hold their own accounts, maintain beneficiaries, and transact via the OpenPayd platform
    • Exposes a developer hub, sandbox environment, account-creation endpoints, webhook eventing, and broad payin/payout/exchange coverage across supported currencies
    • Offers regulated stablecoin services and fiat-crypto conversion through dedicated digital-asset entities inside the broader OpenPayd group structure
  • Key claims:
    • The homepage says OpenPayd is “rail-agnostic infrastructure” that combines traditional finance and digital assets under one API
    • The homepage says OpenPayd processes over $180 billion annually, serves 1000+ clients, maintains 99.99% platform uptime, and supports 5M+ connected accounts
    • The stablecoins page says businesses can “receive, hold, convert and send stablecoins globally” and embed stablecoins into payment flows “just like fiat”
    • The stablecoins page says OpenPayd combines instant on/off ramps, embedded accounts, and a global payments network inside a regulated financial system
    • The on/off-ramp page says clients can trade major digital assets through the API, dashboard, or OTC desk, with instant settlement and a fully regulated platform
    • The multi-currency accounts page says OpenPayd supports 35+ major currencies and 49 currency pairs with instant FX settlement
    • The virtual IBANs page says customers can allocate unlimited named virtual IBANs, get up and running in as little as two weeks, and open virtual IBANs with 13 lines of code
    • The Linked Clients doc says linked clients are onboarded in a parent-child model and can own accounts, maintain beneficiaries, and transact independently on the platform
    • The supported-currencies doc shows a broad matrix of payin, payout, and exchange support across major and long-tail currencies, including EUR, GBP, and USD rails
    • The webhooks doc says OpenPayd supports asynchronous notifications for payins, payouts, transfers, exchanges, fees, and account-status changes, retrying failed deliveries for up to 24 hours with exponential backoff
    • The group-overview and legal pages explicitly separate fiat-payment services from digital-asset services, naming FCA-, MFSA-, and FINTRAC-regulated entities in the group
  • Whitepaper: No canonical standalone OpenPayd whitepaper or litepaper surfaced in this pass. The clearest current sources of truth were the official site, product pages, legal/group pages, API landing pages, and developer docs; see ../whitepapers/openpayd-primary-sources-2026-04-30.md.
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