Fortress Trust offers a regulated financial infrastructure that combines qualified custodial services, payment rails, and compliance tools into a single API-driven platform. It enables crypto‑focused fintechs and digital asset providers to securely hold assets, perform instant crypto‑fiat conversions, and meet KYC/AML requirements while reducing fraud and operational overhead.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Digital asset companies often struggle to integrate compliant custody, payment processing, and regulatory compliance into their platforms, facing fragmented solutions and high operational overhead. This complexity hampers their ability to launch and scale services such as crypto‑fiat conversions, IRA integrations, and fraud‑protected transactions.
Solution
Fortress Trust provides a unified, regulated financial infrastructure that combines qualified custodial services, payment rails, and compliance functions into a single platform. As a qualified custodian under the ’40 Act, it holds assets FBO each client, ensuring segregation and regulatory security. The platform offers embedded IRA capabilities, instant crypto‑fiat conversion, and fraud‑mitigation tools to reduce chargeback risk. Integrated KYC, AML, and sanctions screening relieve companies of BSA compliance burdens. All data and intellectual property are encrypted and hosted on Google Cloud, delivering secure vault storage for digital and traditional assets.
Target Audience
Primary customers are crypto‑focused fintech firms, digital asset platforms, and financial service providers that need compliant custody, payment processing, and regulatory infrastructure for their products.
Features
- Qualified custodian framework for IRAs, trusts, and RIA accounts with FBO asset segregation
- Integrated payment rails supporting bank transfers, wires, and crypto transactions
- Real‑time crypto‑fiat conversion liquidity for instant settlement
- Built‑in KYC, AML, sanctions screening, and other BSA compliance services
- Fraud‑mitigation tools to limit chargebacks and unauthorized activity
- Encrypted vault storage of electronic data and intellectual property on GCP
- API‑driven account management for individuals, businesses, and institutional clients