Ripple Expands Services with Digital Asset Spot Prime Brokerage in the U.S.

Highlights:

• Ripple Prime has launched a U.S. digital asset spot prime brokerage for institutional clients.
• U.S. institutional clients can cross-margin digital assets and traditional financial products.
• Ripple’s integration with Hidden Road enables a unified platform for trading digital and traditional assets.

Fintech giant Ripple has launched its Digital Asset Spot Prime Brokerage for institutions in the U.S. After acquiring Multi-asset broker Hidden Road for $1.25 billion, it combined the licenses and infrastructure to create Ripple Prime. This new offering facilitates over-the-counter (OTC) spot trading for major cryptocurrencies, such as Ripple’s XRP and the RLUSD stablecoin.

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The Expansion of Ripple Prime

Ripple Prime is a digital assets prime brokerage that provides a full portfolio of services. U.S. institutional clients are now able to conduct OTC spot transactions on several different digital assets. The introduction also involves proprietary XRP and RLUSD from Ripple, which enhances liquidity options for traders.

Ripple seeks to bridge traditional financial products to the expanding digital asset market, where clients will obtain the flexibility to access foreign exchange (FX), derivatives, swaps, and fixed-income offerings.

Ripple Prime breaks ground in the US today with the launch of digital asset spot prime brokerage capabilities – allowing clients to execute OTC spot transactions across the most prominent digital assets and stablecoins, including $XRP and $RLUSD. https://t.co/zTYb4MrPX4

— Ripple (@Ripple) November 3, 2025

Furthermore, this strategic move is expected to give institutions a streamlined platform to operate various portfolios. The Ripple platform also enables its clients to cross-margin OTC spot transactions with derivatives, CME futures, and options. With several financial products operating in a single room, Ripple helps financial institutions better manage risk and obtain more trading flexibility.

Michael Higgins, International CEO of Ripple Prime, stated:

“The addition of OTC spot execution services complements our already existing offering of OTC and cleared derivatives services in the digital assets. It also places us in a position to offer a one-stop solution to U.S. institutions to meet their trading requirements.”

Key Features of Ripple Prime’s U.S. Platform

The new platform offers U.S. institutions access to more than spot trading. Ripple Prime integrates a diverse set of services, such as OTC swaps, derivatives, and CME futures and options. This multi-product offering enables clients to have the ease of combining their digital products with traditional financial products.

Combining Ripple with XRP and RLUSD tokens increases liquidity, making Ripple Prime a competitive platform where institutions can grow their blockchain assets. In addition, the ability to cross-margin spot positions to other digital asset products gives extra trading flexibility. These capabilities make Ripple Prime an attractive option for U.S. institutions in need of diversifying their trading strategies.

Ripple’s Growing Institutional Presence

The expansion of Ripple to the prime brokerage is an extension of its institutional services push. The key part of this strategy is the finalization of the acquisition of Hidden Road in October 2025. The acquisition gives Ripple a more solid foundation, allowing it to provide more robust service to clients in the United States. Integrating the prime brokerage offerings of Hidden Road with the digital asset solutions of Ripple, the company now has the capacity to provide a more comprehensive trading experience.

Introducing Ripple Prime: We’re pleased to share that our acquisition of Hidden Road is officially complete, making Ripple the first crypto company to own and operate a global, multi-asset prime broker – bringing the promise of digital assets to institutional customers at scale.…

— Ripple (@Ripple) October 24, 2025

In addition, the expansion of Ripple’s institutional offerings is also associated with recent acquisitions. Recently, the company acquired GTreasury in a $1 billion deal involving corporate treasury management. Ripple is also targeting to raise $1 billion via a SPAC to build an XRP treasury. By bolstering its XRP reserves, Ripple strives to increase the liquidity of the ecosystem, which would further serve to support on-chain payments and cryptocurrency trading.

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