We build the rails.
Lyria is a financial infrastructure company headquartered in Vancouver. We provide the orchestration, accounts, settlement and compliance layers that other businesses use to move money, and we operate them as a registered Money Services Business.
Why Lyria exists.
Payments for complex businesses fail in predictable ways. A single acquirer becomes a single point of failure. Compliance is treated as a review that happens after the fact. Every new rail means another integration, another contract and another reconciliation spreadsheet.
We started Lyria to fix that at the infrastructure level. Instead of one provider, a managed network with routing that adapts in real time. Instead of separate systems for payments, accounts and compliance, one core where every movement of funds and every control share the same record.
The name comes from the lyre, an instrument whose strings only make music when they are tuned together. We think about payment rails the same way.
To make regulated money movement reliable enough that nobody has to think about it.
No single provider, bank or region is a point of failure.
Every movement of funds is recorded twice and matched.
Controls live inside the system that moves the money.
Products share one model, so they work together by default.
How we are organised.
Small, senior teams own each part of the platform end to end.
Engineering
Routing, ledger, APIs and the reliability of everything that runs on them.
Risk and compliance
Our AML/ATF program, onboarding decisions, monitoring and regulatory relationships.
Partnerships
Relationships with acquirers, banks, liquidity providers and payment brands.
Operations
Settlement, reconciliation, client support and incident response.
Accountable by structure.
- Independent compliance. Our compliance officer has direct access to senior management and the authority and resources to run the program.
- Documented risk assessment. Business, product and geographic risks are assessed and reviewed as the business changes.
- Regular effectiveness reviews of the compliance program, as Canadian law requires.
- Clear separation between the teams that win business and the teams that approve it.
Headquarters
Crestline Technologies Ltd.
1100-1200 West 73rd Avenue
Vancouver, British Columbia V6P 6G5
Canada
Work with us
We hire engineers, compliance specialists and operators who care about getting money right.
Built step by step.
A young company, building carefully, on a regulated footing from the start.
- Built in VancouverCrestline Technologies Ltd., a British Columbia company, with its office in Vancouver.
- Registered with FINTRACA Money Services Business for foreign exchange dealing and payment services.
- Lyria 2.0The Lyria platform and brand: orchestration, accounts, settlement, risk and ledger on one core.
Talk to the people building Lyria.
Whether you are a prospective client, partner or investor, we would like to hear from you.