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About us

We started by moving other banks' money.

That is still the discipline. Every balance reconciles to a ledger row, every cross-border instruction shows its clearance, and nothing settles that cannot be explained afterwards.

A global banking network
2007
Founded
$4.2B
Assets under custody
180+
Settlement corridors
99.99%
Platform uptime

Our story

Eighteen years of settling other people's obligations.

We were a correspondent desk before we were a bank, which is why the ledger came first and the interface came second.

  1. •

    2007

    Founded

    Opened as a correspondent settlement desk serving four currencies and eleven institutional clients.

  2. •

    2013

    Retail licence

    Extended into personal and business banking, with the tiered verification model still in use today.

  3. •

    2018

    Digital assets

    Began custody of digital assets and launched collateralised lending against them.

  4. •

    2022

    Clearance transparency

    Published the wire clearance chain to customers — every stage, every levy, visible while funds sit in escrow.

  5. •

    2026

    Today

    Nine currencies, four digital assets, one hundred and eighty settlement corridors.

Leadership

The people accountable for it.

Six names, and what each of them owns. If something on this platform goes wrong, one of these desks answers for it.

Adaeze Okonkwo, Group Chief Executive

Adaeze Okonkwo

Group Chief Executive

Twenty-two years in correspondent banking across Lagos, London and Singapore. Led the treasury rebuild that became this platform.

Mattias Lindqvist, Chief Risk Officer

Mattias Lindqvist

Chief Risk Officer

Former regulator. Sets the clearance thresholds and owns the tiering model that decides what every account may move.

Priya Raghunathan, Head of Wealth

Priya Raghunathan

Head of Wealth

Runs the fixed-term book and the collateralised credit desk. Publishes the rates you see, and defends them.

Tomás Ferreira, Head of Operations

Tomás Ferreira

Head of Operations

Owns settlement. If a wire is sitting in escrow at three in the morning, his desk is the one that moves it.

Grace Amadi, Chief Technology Officer

Grace Amadi

Chief Technology Officer

Built the ledger. Holds the line that every movement of money writes a row that can be read back years later.

Daniel Whitfield, Head of Client Service

Daniel Whitfield

Head of Client Service

Every mandate gets a named banker. He is the reason that is a promise rather than a marketing line.

How we operate

Three commitments we can be held to.

Every movement is a row

Immutable ledger

Balances are derived from entries, never edited in place. A reversal posts a contra entry so the history stays readable.

Clearance in the open

No silent holds

When an instruction is held, you are told which stage, what it costs and who to contact — while the funds sit in escrow.

A person on every mandate

Named, not pooled

Client service is staffed by people who keep their clients, so you are not re-explaining yourself each time.

Come and see how it behaves.

Open an account, or ask us the awkward questions first — we would rather answer them.