Kraken has acquired Interchange, an accounting, reconciliation and reporting service provider for cryptocurrency hedge funds, asset managers and fund administrators.
The transaction creates an end-to-end crypto trading and reconciliation platform, and brings Interchange co-founders and well-respected crypto veterans Dan Held and Clark Moody to Kraken.
Interchange offers professional-grade accounting and portfolio reconciliation tools designed specifically for the nuances and complexities of digital asset markets. Founded to improve access to crypto markets, Interchange enables institutional investors to better monitor and report their cryptocurrency holdings. In less than a year, the Interchange team has brought a new, next-generation product to the institutional marketplace, and is servicing over 60 institutions, including fund administrators and hedge funds. Clients including MG Stover, the world’s largest fund administrator for digital asset funds, value the reliability and intuitive nature of the software.
Since 2014, Kraken has registered a triple-digit growth rate in institutional clients year-on-year, and continues to create new and innovative products to address their most persistent challenges. Together with Cryptowatch – Kraken’s popular multi-exchange charting, trading and portfolio-tracking platform – Interchange will provide investors and traders with an end-to-end solution to manage and optimise their portfolios.
The addition of Interchange will enable Cryptowatch to offer an unmatched set of products including historical and real-time data; advanced charting; multi-exchange trade execution; research and insights; critical accounting and portfolio reconciliation tools, and world-leading index products via Kraken’s CF Benchmarks business (formerly known as Crypto Facilities Indices). Bringing together this valuable and comprehensive offering in a single venue reinforces Kraken’s commitment to creating a best-in-class platform, supporting the adoption of crypto globally among individuals, professional traders and institutions.
“I couldn’t be more excited to welcome Dan, Clark and the Interchange team to Kraken,” says Jesse Powell (pictured), Kraken CEO. “What’s great about Interchange is that it makes accounting, trade reconciliation and reporting so much easier for institutions and individuals trading on Kraken, so our clients can stay focused on tapping the tremendous value that cryptocurrency markets offer.”
“With Interchange, we set out to build best-in-class tools for institutional traders,” says Dan Held, Co-Founder of Interchange. “Becoming part of the Kraken family will enable us to improve our core portfolio reconciliation product, while creating new possibilities for our clients who will now have easy access to Kraken’s cutting-edge suite of products.”
“Interchange is a leading crypto asset management solution and we have always relied on it to simplify accounting in the decentralised, fragmented crypto asset landscape,” says Matt Stover, MG Stover & Co. CEO.
The Interchange acquisition follows the acquisition earlier this month of Cryptofinance.ai, a software tool that provides access to prices and market data from more than 50 exchanges, as well as blockchain network data delivered via Google Sheets. In February this year, Kraken announced its acquisition of Crypto Facilities — now known as Kraken Futures — which has been its largest to date. The combination makes Kraken the only regulated exchange to offer spot and futures trading on a single platform.
