# Aquanow

> Infrastructure for the Next Financial Era

Aquanow is a digital asset infrastructure provider for financial institutions. It offers trading, stablecoin payments, and custody solutions for banks, brokerages, fintechs, and payment providers.

Aquanow is a digital asset infrastructure company that helps regulated financial institutions offer crypto and stablecoin services. It acts as a principal counterparty for trading rather than a matching venue, and provides liquidity and conversion, trading infrastructure, embedded brokerage, and stablecoin payment tools. Its clients include banks, brokerages, fintechs, payment service providers, enterprises, and CFD or online trading platforms.

The platform is built for institutions that need to launch or scale digital asset offerings without building infrastructure themselves. It operates through licensed and registered entities across multiple jurisdictions, holding regulatory standing in the United Arab Emirates, the United States, and Canada, and aligns its security program with recognized information security and privacy frameworks. Compliance tooling embedded in the platform includes identity verification, transaction monitoring, and travel rule support.

Aquanow supports functions spanning digital asset brokerage, stablecoin payments, and platform infrastructure such as compliance and security tooling, alongside developer APIs for trading and payments. It maintains a presence across several global offices and serves clients across many countries. The company is used by financial institutions and internet platforms seeking to embed digital asset trading and payment capabilities into their existing services.

- Type: Company
- Sector: Finance
- Status: Active
- Founded: 2018-01-01
- Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/aquanow

## Products

- [Liquidity & Conversion](https://thegrid.id/profiles/aquanow): Liquidity & Conversion is an OTC digital asset liquidity and execution service in which Aquanow acts as principal counterparty for client trades. Clients access pricing and execution through a REST API, a web-based trading portal, or a dedicated OTC desk, with trades settling directly against Aquanow inventory. The service is built for licensed financial institutions that need crypto market access without operating their own trading infrastructure. (OTC, Live)
- [Trading Infrastructure](https://thegrid.id/profiles/aquanow): Trading Infrastructure is a white-label brokerage technology stack that lets licensed financial institutions run their own branded crypto brokerage. It provides API-led pricing, trade execution, market data, deposit and withdrawal handling, and post-trade settlement, while the client retains its own regulatory license and customer relationships. It is delivered through REST APIs, webhooks, and OAuth2-secured account management, with staging environments available for integration testing. (Financial Services Platform, Live, Main Product)
- [Embedded Brokerage](https://thegrid.id/profiles/aquanow): Embedded Brokerage is a fully managed digital asset brokerage service that operates behind a client's brand without requiring the client to hold its own licence. Aquanow supplies the regulatory licensing, compliance program, custody, and trade execution, including cold and warm wallet storage, crypto insurance coverage, and segregated, bankruptcy-remote account structures. It is intended for businesses that want to offer branded crypto trading to end customers while outsourcing the underlying regulatory and operational burden. (Financial Services Platform, Live)
- [Stablecoin Payments](https://thegrid.id/profiles/aquanow): Stablecoin Payments is a merchant payment platform that lets businesses accept crypto and stablecoin payments while settling in fiat, and send payouts funded in fiat but delivered in stablecoins or digital assets. Merchants accept payments through payment links, hosted checkout, or direct API integration with guaranteed pricing and automatic fiat settlement, and send crypto payouts to counterparties through a portal or API from a held fiat balance. The same account also offers hosted crypto wallets for holding balances, receiving deposits, and card-linked spending with automatic crypto-to-fiat conversion. (Merchant Payment Gateway, Live)

## Links

- [Main](https://www.aquanow.com)
- [Media Kit/branding](https://www.aquanow.com/brand-assets)
- [Privacy policy](https://aquanow.com/legal/privacy-policy)
- [Terms of Service](https://aquanow.com/legal/website-terms-of-service)
- [Blog](https://www.aquanow.com/insights-blog)
- [Blog](https://www.aquanow.com/newsroom)
- [Documentation](https://docs.aquanow.io/aquanow)
- [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/aquanow)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/aquanow)
- [Telegram](https://t.me/aquanow)

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