Sage Capital Management has chosen OpenPayd to widen the fiat payment options available to its institutional digital-asset clients. The live connection, announced on 9 September 2026, adds dollar, euro and sterling rails so firms can move funds into and out of crypto markets through a single operating environment rather than stitching together separate banking relationships.
Sage positions itself as a unified operating system for digital assets, combining banking, market access, collateralised lending and technology under one regulated counterparty.
The OpenPayd link builds on a banking service the firm introduced earlier in 2026, which already offered named multi-currency accounts held in each client’s own legal entity and Mastercard corporate debit cards tied to those accounts.
The new rails extend that stack instead of replacing it.
Through OpenPayd, Sage now has a US dollar account with SWIFT connectivity for on- and off-ramps, euro transfers over SEPA, and sterling payments via Faster Payments as well as SWIFT.
The multi-network setup is meant to support incoming collections from clients and outgoing fiat settlements with liquidity providers—routine but operationally sensitive work for institutions trading digital assets at scale.
A practical addition is virtual IBANs issued for every client.
Those account numbers let Sage track incoming and outgoing payments more precisely and speed up reconciliation, reducing the operational drag that often appears when large volumes move between traditional banking systems and digital-asset venues.
The intended users include hedge funds, asset managers, trading firms, brokers, corporate treasuries and digital asset treasuries.
Extra currencies and corridors give those groups more choice in how they fund positions and settle with counterparties, rather than depending on a single rail or currency pair.
OpenPayd’s chief commercial officer, Lux Thiagarajah, framed the partnership around the two-sided nature of institutional crypto activity.
Efficient movement of money on the fiat side of a trade, he said, is as important as market access itself.
On- and off-ramps expand how institutions enter digital asset markets, while dependable payment connectivity is required to shift funds between clients and counterparties.
Sage, in his view, is simplifying that access; OpenPayd’s role is to supply the fiat plumbing that makes the proposition work.Sage CEO Nathan Sage described OpenPayd as a significant participant in crypto banking and said the alliance adds credibility to the platform.
The firm’s priority, he said, remains fast, flexible and secure access to global banking networks so clients can move between fiat and digital assets and handle payments and foreign exchange.
The partnership, he added, supports high standards of transparency and regulatory alignment.
OpenPayd, founded in 2018, presents itself as rails-agnostic infrastructure for moving and managing money across both traditional currencies and digital assets through one API.
Its clients include well-known trading and exchange names, and it reports more than $300 billion in annual volumes for over 1,200 businesses.
Sage has operated since 2015 and markets a single-API connection into the broader trading ecosystem, with operations across multiple jurisdictions.
The integration is less a standalone product launch than an expansion of an existing institutional stack: more currencies, more payment networks, and cleaner payment attribution for firms that need to settle at speed without fragmenting their banking relationships.