# Avenia > Borderless liquidity Avenia is a cross-border payments company connecting Latin America to global markets. It provides API and web platform infrastructure for currency conversion, treasury management, and local payment rail integration. Avenia is a cross-border payments infrastructure provider that connects Latin America to global markets. It offers an API and a web platform for sending, receiving, converting, and holding funds across currencies. Businesses use it to move money without needing a local entity in each market. The platform addresses multi-day settlement, limited banking hours, and fragmented compliance in traditional cross-border transfers. It integrates with local payment rails, converts between currencies, and settles transactions over stablecoins, with compliance and reporting built into the infrastructure. Avenia offers an API for embedding payment flows in other products, a web interface for corporate treasury, and BRLA, a stablecoin pegged to the Brazilian real that supports settlement and liquidity. Fintechs, consumer applications, and corporate treasuries operating between Latin America and other markets use it. - Type: Company - Sector: Payments - Status: Active - Founded: 2022-01-01 - Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/avenia ## Products - [Avenia API](https://thegrid.id/profiles/avenia): Avenia API is a payments infrastructure product that aggregates cross-border payment rails into unified endpoints for developers and businesses. It connects local payment methods with stablecoin conversions, enabling real-time settlement between currencies. Businesses use it to embed cross-border payment flows, currency conversion, and treasury operations in their own products. (Payments Infrastructure & Orchestration, Live) - [Avenia Pay](https://thegrid.id/profiles/avenia): Avenia Pay is a web-based treasury platform that lets businesses move capital between international entities and convert between currencies. It offers no-code setup for foreign exchange conversion and access to US yield, settling transactions over stablecoin infrastructure. Companies operating across Latin America use it to manage compliance, tax, and treasury without building their own settlement rails. (Financial Services Platform, Live, Main Product) - [BRLA](https://thegrid.id/profiles/avenia): BRLA is a fully collateralized stablecoin pegged one-to-one to the Brazilian real, issued and operated by Avenia. It is backed by regulated reserves, including government bonds, held in transparent custody with periodic reporting. Wallets, exchanges, and financial platforms integrate BRLA to power stablecoin-native payment flows and settlement in Brazilian reais. (Stablecoin Issuer, Live) ## Assets - [BRLA (BRLA)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/avenia): BRLA is a BRL-pegged stablecoin issued by Avenia. It is used for cross-border payments, treasury management, and settlement through local payment rails. It is backed by regulated reserves, including government bonds held in custody, is deployed natively across multiple blockchains without wrapping, and publishes monthly reserve attestations. (Stablecoin) ## Links - [Main](https://avenia.io) - [Documentation](https://integration-guide.avenia.io) - [Privacy policy](https://app.avenia.io/Avenia-Privacy-Policy.pdf) - [Terms of Service](https://app.avenia.io/Avenia-TC.pdf) - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/avenia-io) - [Twitter / X](https://x.com/aveniaio) ## Legal This data is provided under two licensing models. Model 1 - open data. 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