# Breaking News: Kraken Parent Payward Executes Four Strategic Deals in Six-Week Push to Build Regulated Infrastructure Platform
Kraken’s parent company Payward has rapidly assembled a regulated financial infrastructure platform through four major deals completed between mid-April and late May 2025. The moves include Deutsche Börse’s $200 million stake purchase for 1.5% equity at a $13.3 billion valuation, the $550 million acquisition of CFTC-licensed derivatives firm Bitnomial, a payments partnership with Reap, and preliminary Dubai VARA authorization.
The Deutsche Börse investment closed April 14 as a secondary transaction, providing Kraken a traditional finance anchor in Europe. On May 1, Payward completed the Bitnomial acquisition, gaining a full US derivatives stack including exchange, clearinghouse, and broker-dealer licenses. Days later, Kraken Pro launched CFTC-regulated spot margin trading up to 10x leverage for US retail clients through newly registered entity NinjaTrader Clearing LLC.
The sequence directly addresses Payward’s 2021 CFTC fine for unregistered margin trading while positioning Kraken beyond pure crypto exchange operations toward multi-jurisdictional infrastructure.
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** Traders should monitor whether Payward’s regulated derivatives stack captures institutional flow previously routed to offshore platforms as US compliance becomes table stakes.
Source: Finance Magnates