Ripple Acquires Standard Custody & Trust Company

Wintrust Private Trust Company to Acquire Northern Trust Guardianship Services Business

July 7, 2026

Financial Services

Wintrust Private Trust Company has entered into an agreement to purchase Northern Trust’s guardianship services business. The transaction is expected to close later in 2026, with Northern Trust’s guardianship team relocating to Wintrust and financial terms not disclosed.

Ripple Acquires Palisade to Expand Digital Asset Custody

November 3, 2025

Payments & Fintech

Ripple has acquired Palisade, a London-based digital asset wallet and custody technology company, to bolster Ripple Custody with wallet-as-a-service capabilities. The deal integrates Palisade's MPC-based, multi-chain wallet tech into Ripple Payments, expanding Ripple's ability to serve fintechs, corporates, and crypto-native institutions with faster wallet provisioning and high-frequency transaction support.

Ripple Acquires GTreasury for $1 Billion

October 16, 2025

Cloud & SaaS

Ripple announced its $1 billion acquisition of GTreasury, described as the global leader in treasury management systems. The deal is intended to expand Ripple’s access to the multi-trillion-dollar corporate treasury market and combine GTreasury’s treasury/risk/compliance capabilities with Ripple’s digital-asset and payments infrastructure.

Ripple to Acquire Rail for $200 Million

August 7, 2025

Payments & Fintech

Ripple agreed to acquire Rail, a stablecoin-powered global payments platform, for $200 million. The deal expands Ripple’s digital asset payments infrastructure by adding Rail’s virtual accounts and automated back-office capabilities, and is expected to close in Q4 2025 subject to regulatory approvals.

Ripple Acquires Fortress Trust

September 8, 2023

Financial Services

Ripple has agreed to acquire Fortress Trust, a subsidiary of Fortress Blockchain Technologies, bringing a Nevada trust license and Web3 custody and payments infrastructure into Ripple's enterprise crypto stack. The acquisition expands Ripple's regulatory licenses and capabilities across payments, custody, and tokenization; the deal remains subject to due diligence and regulatory approvals.

CSC to Acquire Intertrust Group

November 7, 2022

Professional Services

CSC announced it has reached a conditional agreement to acquire Intertrust N.V., a Netherlands-based provider of corporate and fund solutions. CSC said the combination strengthens its global corporate and fund administration and compliance capabilities, including a single-source technology platform.