Global Settlement

The company's leadership includes CEO Ryan Kirkley and President Kyle Sonlin. Sonlin is a University of Miami graduate who has been active in the Miami technology scene since 2015, often lecturing on blockchain and capital markets. The company's origins are closely tied to the local tech ecosystem in Miami, with connections to the University of Miami's entrepreneurship center, The Launch Pad.

A significant development for the company was its recent acquisition of Miami-based fintech firms InvestReady and Accreditoken. This led to the creation of a new subsidiary, GSX Identity (GSX ID), a decentralized identity and credential platform. This platform integrates InvestReady's expertise in accredited investor verification with Accreditoken's decentralized credential technology. The goal is to create a reusable digital credential layer for regulated blockchain finance, allowing institutions to verify participants once for use across multiple networks and transactions, in compliance with regulations like Europe's MiCA framework and FATF Travel Rule guidance. Adrian Alvarez, the co-founder of InvestReady, now leads GSX Identity as its CEO, with Kirkley serving as Chairman.

Global Settlement's business model centers on creating the foundational trust and compliance layer for the next generation of financial infrastructure. This addresses the challenge of retrofitting compliance onto decentralized networks. In practice, the company has facilitated significant transactions, such as a $75 million acquisition of a Latin American oil and gas facility using a fully tokenized capital stack, which compressed settlement times from days to minutes. The acquisition of InvestReady and Accreditoken adds a compliance layer built on over a decade of work and the verification of tens of thousands of accredited investors for clients like Mercedes-Benz Financial Services and Invesco.