Statera

The RFP benchmark and go-to-market accelerator for digital-asset providers.

The RFP desk for financial institutions choosing a digital-asset provider.

  • Benchmark
  • Competition
  • RFP accelerator
  • Go-to-market
  • RFP design
  • Vendor shortlist
  • Due diligence
  • Sandbox demos

Wallets and custody, money movement, tokenisation: see where you stand against the competition on what banks, insurers, asset managers, PSPs and corporate treasuries ask in their RFPs. Public sources only, every fact cited.

Banks, insurers, asset managers, PSPs and corporate treasuries: write the RFP, compare every provider on verified evidence, shortlist, run the demos on your scenarios. Public sources only, every fact cited.

Statera in short

One referential per axis, written from real RFPs

Every question has a verified answer per vendor, a source and a date. The same evidence reads differently depending on who buys: that is what personas are for.

Statera · Vertical 0118 providers compared

Tokenisation

Issuance, registers, chains, distribution, custody, the cash leg and the life of the token. For a bank or an infrastructure choosing a tokenisation provider.

  • Use case 01Issuer
  • Use case 02Investor
  • Use case 03Wholesale settlement

Published by Aequus Money

Institutional Digital Assets Hors-série

Our press review gives each vertical its own special edition.

Cover of the Institutional Digital Assets special edition no. 3, Crypto CSDs, November 2026
Special edition no. 3 · Crypto CSDs · 32 pages
Cover of the Institutional Digital Assets special edition no. 4, Tokenisation platforms, November 2026
Special edition no. 4 · Tokenisation platforms · 28 pages

18 providers compared

  • Securitize
  • Tokeny
  • Libeara
  • Superstate
  • Ondo
  • Archax
  • BNY
  • Kinexys
  • Broadridge DLR
  • SDX
  • Clearstream D7
  • Franklin Templeton Benji
  • WisdomTree Prime
  • Libre
  • Taurus
  • Fireblocks
  • Polymesh
  • Centrifuge
Statera · Vertical 0247 providers compared

Moneymovement

Stablecoin pay-ins and payouts, fiat rails, corridors, FX and liquidity, Travel Rule and safeguarding, cards, reconciliation.

  • Use case 01Card issuer
  • Use case 02Correspondent bank
  • Use case 03PSP / fintech
  • Use case 04Corporate treasury

Published by Aequus Money

Institutional Digital Assets Hors-série

Our press review gives each vertical its own special edition.

Cover of the Institutional Digital Assets special edition no. 2, Money movement, November 2026
Special edition no. 2 · Money movement · 24 pages

47 providers compared

  • Triple A
  • Bastion
  • Hercle
  • BVNK
  • Circle
  • Bridge
  • Zero Hash
  • Ripple
  • MoonPay
  • Solide Finance
  • Conduit
  • HiFi
  • Merge
  • Rain
  • Reap
  • Noah
  • Thunes
  • Nium
  • Checkout.com
  • Coinbase Payments
  • Mesh
  • Anchorage Digital
  • Banxa
  • Mercuryo
  • Transak
  • Mural
  • Borderless
  • Damisa
  • Checker
  • KAST
  • RedotPay
  • Airwallex
  • Velocity
  • Nuvei
  • dLocal
  • Avenia
  • Caliza
  • Koywe
  • Yellow Card
  • Busha
  • Nala
  • Capa
  • Crossmint
  • Due
  • Squarefi
  • Velafi
  • Trace Finance
Statera · Vertical 039 providers compared

Wallets andcustody

Key management, controls and approvals, signing, recovery, segregation, the exit plan, and the licences behind the custodian.

  • Use case 01Corporate money movement
  • Use case 02PSP
  • Use case 03Retail custody
  • Use case 04Treasury management system
  • Use case 05Tokenised funds

Published by Aequus Money

Institutional Digital Assets Hors-série

Our press review gives each vertical its own special edition.

Cover of the Institutional Digital Assets special edition no. 1, Wallets, November 2026
Special edition no. 1 · Wallets · 40 pages
Cover of the Institutional Digital Assets special edition no. 1, episode 2, Choosing a provider
Special edition no. 1, episode 2 · Choosing a provider · 20 pages

9 providers compared

  • Utila
  • Fireblocks
  • Dfns
  • Taurus
  • Ledger
  • Stripe
  • BitGo
  • Zodia Custody
  • BNY

The workshop

What a comparison looks like

Six money movement providers, read for a generic RFP. Scores measure what is public and verifiable, not product quality. Vendor names and logos are masked on this page: no vendor sees another one named with its score.

Statera comparison table: six anonymised vendors scored by theme — use cases, stablecoins and chains, fiat rails, corridors, liquidity and FX, compliance and safeguarding, products and operations.
Radar chart of the same six anonymised vendors across seven themes.
Questions and answers view: each RFP question with each vendor's verified answer — direct, partner, no or unknown — and a short note.

Side by side answersand advanced data visualisations of strengths and weaknesses

Five offers,one benchmark

Four for the providers who answer RFPs. One for the institutions who send them.

For providers

APoint in time

“Where do we stand?”

Statera Snapshot

  • One axis, every question checked against your public sources
  • Scored by theme and by persona, against the market (anonymised)
  • Also as Duel (one competitor you name) or Panorama (20+ players)
BOne expert day a month

“How do we score higher?”

Statera Uplift

  • What is public, and what is missing
  • What to publish, and where, so it can be verified
  • Statera recommends; your teams write and publish
CEvery month

“Who is catching up with us?”

Statera Watch

  • Your position on all three axes, refreshed monthly
  • An alert when a score moves, and the facts to re-check before they age
  • Also as Benchmark, against the competitors you name
DTwo experts · two weeks

“A bank RFP just landed. Can we win it?”

Statera RFP Accelerator

  • Pre-filled from your verified public facts
  • The gaps between their requirements and what you can prove
  • Drafted with your teams, reviewed before sending

For financial institutions

EBanks · insurers · asset managers · PSPs · corporate treasuries

“Which provider should we pick?”

Statera RFP Desk

Pick the right provider, on evidence, from the first question to the final recommendation.

  1. 1RFP Design

    • Written for your persona, jurisdictions and eliminatory criteria
    • Questions drawn from the Statera referential, weighted for you
    • Demo scenarios, documents to attach, vendors to invite
  2. 2RFP Run

    • Every answer checked against its evidence
    • Comparison scored for your persona, then a shortlist
    • Sandbox demos, and a written recommendation with red flags and total cost

Any commercial tie between Aequus Money and an invited vendor is disclosed before sending. Vendor answers stay confidential.

The team

Who runs Statera

Riad Lemhachheche

Riad Lemhachheche

Founder, Aequus Money · Paris

  • Twenty years in software. Co-founder of FollowAnalytics, a mobile analytics and marketing SaaS.
  • More than 200 mobile apps and 150 Salesforce projects delivered.
  • Author of Software-Defined Money and of the report “Who is authorised under MiCA”. Builds StableMap, the ecosystem map behind Statera.
Charlotte Hullo

Charlotte Hullo

Partner, Aequus Money · Geneva

  • More than 20 years in enterprise software: SAP, DocuSign, Taurus.
  • At Taurus (digital-asset custody): scaled the sales team, full cycle from presales to deployment.
  • Onboarded banks across digital-asset, IT and innovation teams.

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Tell us the axis, the use case and what you need: a position, a monthly watch, an RFP to answer or one to run. We reply with a scoped quote.

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