The hardest part of crypto payments isn't the crypto. 13 October 2026 This is a Sponsored Article Cleverlee comes to SiGMA World with an argument about where B2B payments actually get stuck - and an open stand for anyone who disagrees. Ask a payments team what stops a B2B business from using digital assets and you will rarely get a technical answer. The rails work. What doesn't work is everything after: reconciliation that won't match, reports a finance director won't sign off on, a monthly close where someone handles the whole thing as an exception. The technology showed up years ago. The paperwork didn't. Cleverlee builds payment infrastructure for merchants, IT companies and e-commerce platforms. Its team works across several countries with an ambition nobody would call glamorous: make B2B payments behave sensibly from every side they touch, the customer's screen and the accountant's spreadsheet alike. Most of the difficult work lives in the second one. Licensing is the obvious example. A platform that decides to add crypto payouts usually finds it has signed up for a compliance build nobody scoped, and that is where the idea quietly dies; Cleverlee covers that side through its partnership with The Vault, whose EU-regulated infrastructure and expertise mean clients don't have to stand up the machinery themselves. None of this is meant to sound revolutionary. Payments are judged by how little anyone notices them, and digital assets are still noticeable in all the wrong places. Cards took decades to fade into the background of ordinary business, and they did so through settlement rules and accounting standards rather than better marketing. Crypto is somewhere in the middle of the same journey. The companies that finish it will be the ones that fixed the back office. So the stand is set up for conversations rather than presentations. The team will run demos and walk through what's coming next, but the more useful half of the show is usually the other direction: what broke in someone's operations last quarter, which provider promised something the ops team is still paying for, where the actual cost sits. Cleverlee is open to B2B partnerships on the technical and commercial side, and the fastest way into one is to describe a problem. SiGMA World runs 2-5 November at Fiera di Roma. Meetings can be booked in advance at cleverlee.com or by dropping by stand 8065.

Aptos joins Tria's financial operating system and enables ultra-fast onchain trading worldwide. * Aptos was integrated into Tria's global commerce engine, a neobank with 500,000 users in more than 150 countries with its own custody system. * The Aptos Network recorded a record TVL of $1 billion, 10 million monthly active users and 326 million transactions in a single day. * BlackRock, Franklin Templeton and Microsoft operate live products on the network. $APT was classified as a digital commodity under the SEC/CFTC framework in March 2026. Tria announced the integration of Aptos into its global commerce enginea platform that brings more than just together 500,000 users in more than 150 countries. From now on, those users can do that too deposit, trade and withdraw native assets from the $APT network directly from the same personal account they already use to manage their portfolio, earn revenue and pay with a Visa card at more than 150 million merchants. According to Tria, what move $APT distinguishing itself from other networks is not his technical proposal but its institutional proposal: BlackRock chose Aptos as the only non-EVM chain for its BUIDL fundFranklin Templeton manages its on-chain money market fund on the network and Microsoft built its institutional blockchain infrastructure on Azure with Aptos at its core. None of these projects are in a pilot phase; they all operate with real capital. The Aptos infrastructure. The network's figures are of fundamental importance. Aptus reached a peak TVL of $1 billion in 2024, representing a growth of 700% over the year. The market capitalization of stablecoins on the network surpassed $1.9 billion and the value of tokenized real-world assets reached an all-time high of $1.2 billionwith active implementations of BlackRockFranklin Templeton, Ondo and Apollo. On a technical level, the network works with block times under 50 milliseconds, finality in less than one second, costs under $0.001 and 99.99% uptime. In March 2026, $APT was formally classified as one digital goods within the joint regulatory framework of the SEC and the CFTC, paving the way for large institutional capital flows that were previously legally unviable. One account for all chains. In terms of benefits for Tria, the integration allows its users to do just that trade over 100 chains using Aptos as a fast execution layerPerform cross-chain swaps with instant settlement and without third-party bridges, and get access to a DeFi ecosystem that includes on-chain derivatives and tokenized real-world assets. The goal of both companies is to build the financial operating system for the global user: a single, self-managed account, functional in any chain, in any country and at any time.