Payward, doing business as Kraken, is one of the world's oldest and most trusted digital asset businesses, founded in 2011. We are authorised and supervised by the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) as a crypto-asset service provider under MiCA, as well as E-Money Institution/Payment Institution, and by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) as a MiFID investment firm, serving over 15 million clients…
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Payward
Company · Belgium · EU Transparency Register 275106146202-23
1
position filed
in the 326 files tracked
1
legislative file
of 326 tracked
1
with a full position paper
attached to a submission
Counts here are a floor, never a total: they cover the 326 consultation files tracked so far (29,503 submissions, mostly 2025–26), so an organization's real filing history is larger, not smaller.
Who they are
Among the 925 companies & groups on this site, they rank #803 by legislative files engaged — a count of participation, not a measure of influence.
2.5
declared lobbying FTE
self-declared
€300K+
declared costs / yr (floor)
1
EP accreditations
as declared to the register
2022
in the register since
Declares membership of
- Blockchain for Europe https://www.blockchain4europe.eu/
- Blockchain Ireland https://blockchainireland.net/
- Crypto Council for Innovation https://cryptoforinnovation.org/
- E-Money Association https://e-ma.org/
- FIA https://www.fia.org/
- Fintech and Payments Association of Ireland https://www.fpai.ie/
Self-declared to the EU Transparency Register (snapshot 30 Aug 2026).
- Register category
- Companies & groups
- Registered as
- Payward Inc
- Head office
- San Francisco, United states
Self-declared to the EU Transparency Register (snapshot 30 Aug 2026); cost bands are floors, not audited totals. Reused under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU.
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Their record over time
Payward filed 1 position on 20 Mar 2026, across 1 of the 326 legislative files tracked here, attaching a full position paper 1 time.
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