Solutions by Zodia Custody Expands to Integrate Programmable Credit Infrastructure and Power Custody-Native Credit for Banks

LONDON / DUBAI 17th March, 2026: Zodia Custody, the institution-first digital assets platform with shareholders and investors including Standard Chartered, Northern Trust, SBI Holdings, National Australia Bank, and Emirates NBD has announced a strategic partnership with Programmable Credit Protocol (PCP), the custody-native credit messaging infrastructure for secured digital and tokenized asset lending.

As institutional markets converge around tokenised securities, deposits and stablecoins, credit workflows are shifting closer to custody, with credit management increasingly embedded directly within the systems that hold and safeguard assets, creating collateral utility.

Zodia Custody has integrated PCP’s credit orchestration infrastructure directly into its Solutions platform, allowing secured lending from the same environment that holds and protects client assets. By bringing these workflows together, clients of Zodia Custody’s Solutions offering can offer more flexible credit services to their customers, positioning Solutions by Zodia Custody as the key control layer that manages and enforces credit. Solutions by Zodia Custody is a technology and infrastructure platform which already powers the digital asset custody infrastructure of leading financial institutions, with clients across Europe, the US, the Middle East and Asia.

Julian Sawyer, CEO at Zodia Custody, said: “Our Solutions offering has always been focused on delivering institutional-grade solutions to our global banking clients, and empowering them to operate secure, scalable digital assets custody for their own clients. Custody infrastructure must evolve beyond safekeeping, and support capital efficiency. This is why we’ve partnered with PCP. Enhancing our services to now be able to offer programmable secured credit workflows directly from custody represents a clear evolution in our Solutions services and ability to support institutions in handling digital assets.”

Rico van der Veen, CEO at PCP, added: “Zodia Custody has built the custody platform that banks trust with their digital and tokenized assets. By embedding PCP directly into that stack, banks don’t just safeguard — they can extend credit. PCP is the infrastructure enabling these credit workflows, rather than a separate platform. Zodia Custody choosing to embed PCP across their entire platform is a signal that the market is ready for custody-native credit.”

PCP’s credit orchestration infrastructure layer will enable Zodia Custody’s institutional Solutions clients to replace slow, manual credit management with quicker and more automated processes. It will also allow them to leverage tokenized assets as collateral & deposits as a settlement currency, bridging the gap between TradFi and DeFi, whilst maintaining regulatory compliance.

The partnership reflects a shared belief that custody must evolve beyond simply safeguarding assets. With Standard Chartered projecting tokenised asset markets to reach $30 trillion by 2034, the opportunity for banks is clear. For banks and financial institutions using Solutions by Zodia Custody as their custody infrastructure provider, PCP’s integration shifts the focus from protecting digital & tokenized assets to unlocking new revenue opportunities.

Zodia Custody is currently the only custodian participating in the PCP’s pilot with Canton Network Foundation, which offers custody-native programmable credit workflows to banks. This capability builds on the company’s broader work within the Canton ecosystem to enable collateral utility for tokenised assets.