Nium acquires Cypher to scale on-chain money movement infrastructure

What's happening

Nium has acquired Cypher, a crypto-native non-custodial wallet and issuing company, to expand its cross-border payments infrastructure into on-chain and digital-asset rails. The deal combines Nium's existing global money-movement and stablecoin-backed issuing capabilities with Cypher's wallet and issuing technology, positioning Nium as an infrastructure layer that bridges fiat and digital assets. Financial terms were not disclosed. Nium said the acquisition will help develop compliant money movement and value exchange between fiat currencies and digital assets.

Why it's trending

Payments firms are racing to stitch stablecoins and crypto-native tooling into traditional cross-border rails so they can offer faster, programmable, compliant transfers now.

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