Stable capital for the global economy
Lending against realized, cash-generating assets.
Structured credit, or more specifically asset-backed finance, is financing secured by real or financial, cash-generating assets. Instead of lending purely against a company’s forecasted financials, capital is provided against pools of realized originated assets — such as credit card receivables, auto loans, invoices, aircraft leases, royalties, or recurring subscription revenue. These assets are aggregated, placed into a bankruptcy-remote vehicle, and financed through senior to junior tranches with defined returns, advance rates, and protections.
This model is how most of the real economy is already funded. Consumer lending, BNPL programs, auto finance, commercial aircraft fleets, franchise systems, data centers, solar installations, and even music catalogs are financed through structured credit. KKR calls this “the credit that our modern economy runs on,” and sizes the private structured-credit market at roughly $6.1T today, with an expected path toward ~$9T by 2029.
The most advanced financial infrastructure. Not yet banking large institutions.
Stablecoin ecosystems settle value in seconds, run continuous markets, and program credit at the transaction level. The infrastructure is built. What’s missing is its connection to the largest borrowers and asset pools that drive the world’s credit markets.
A large capital base looking for high-quality yield.
24/7 settlement · Cost efficient · TransparentA direct path to real-economy borrowers and assets.
Receivables · Loans · Royalties · Equipment · TradeBetween programmable capital and structured credit.
Origination · Structuring · Monitoring · TreasuryStablecoin supply now rivals the world’s largest banks.
+32.2%
May 2025 → May 20263.4×
May 2021 → May 2026Source · DefiLlama (May 2026) · McKinsey × Artemis (Feb 2026) · Visa (Apr 2026)
Crypto-native credit is too narrow for the next trillion.
Concentrated collateral. BTC, ETH, and exchange balance sheets dominate.
Concentrated borrowers. Trading desks, market makers, and a small set of protocols.
Incentive-driven yield. Token emissions and rate manipulation distort real demand.
Duration mismatch. Allocators need term and tenor; venues offer perpetual or short-duration.
Closed-loop capital. Crypto-collateralized lending recycles capital within the crypto system and generates no real-world cash flows.
Source · Visa × Allium · DefiLlama (May 2026)
Asset-backed finance is the real-economy bridge.
ABF is credit backed by pools of assets, contractual cash flows, receivables, hard assets, and structured collateral — how large parts of the modern economy are financed.
Source · KKR (Jun 2025) · Brookfield × Oliver Wyman (Mar 2025) · Apollo (Aug 2025) · IMF (Apr 2024)
ABF at a glance.
Asset-backed finance lends against diversified pools of contractual cash flows — receivables, leases, royalties, mortgages, equipment — under a structural rulebook refined over four decades.
Pool, not borrower.
Exposure spans thousands of obligors — repayment depends on aggregate performance, not a single name.
Cash flows pay down principal.
No balloon or refinancing risk — short-duration pools self-liquidate inside 1–24 months.
Assets legally transferred.
Originator sells the pool to an SPV with legal opinion and perfected lien — the claim is on the assets.
Insulated from the originator.
The SPV is ring-fenced from originator insolvency — pool cash flows continue to serve the facility.
Servicer data, daily.
Eligibility, advance rates, and triggers are tested against live asset-level data, not quarterly tape.
Layered loss absorption.
Overcollateralization, reserves, excess spread, and tranching absorb losses before senior creditors.
Without ABF, the modern economy stops — it’s the format that finances the cash flows the real world actually generates.
What River does.
Origination
Multi-billion-dollar borrowers — fintechs, mobility, telecom, payments.
Structuring & Underwriting
AI / ML analysis and onsite diligence isolate risks.
Capital
Diversified capital sources priced 5–15% APR, in line with banks and credit funds.
Monitoring
State-of-the-art early-detection signal across every facility.
Connectivity
Frictionless USD ⇄ stablecoin for borrower operations and treasury.
Origination.
River originates with institutional fintechs and capital-intensive enterprises — the kind of borrowers banks fight to keep. We add a second source of capital next to the bank and credit-fund desks, and we fund as assets are originated rather than weekly funding with T+3.
Borrower A
Device financing · telecom receivables
Borrower B
Auto loans · captive finance
Borrower C
Margin · securities financing
Borrower D
Consumer instalments · BNPL
Borrower E
Student · personal · home loans
Borrower F
Merchant credit · working capital
Illustrative borrower archetypes · not committed counterparties.
T+0
Funded as assets are originated · vs. weekly or monthly funding with traditional warehouses and forward flow.
Multiple sources
Structuring & underwriting.
Every facility is underwritten deal-by-deal at the standard of bank ABF desks and the largest credit funds — extended with AI/ML pool analytics and onsite diligence. Risk that can’t be priced is structured out before the facility closes.
AI & ML pool analytics.
Obligor-level data on the historical pool runs through ensemble default and prepay models. We size advance rates, set eligibility, and stress concentration limits against the borrower's own loss history — not a sector average.
Onsite diligence.
We walk originator floors — credit committees, collections, servicer ops, IT controls. KYB, financial review, audit trails, legal opinion, lien perfection. The same playbook a bank ABF desk would run on a $500M warehouse.
Risk isolation.
True-sale to a bankruptcy-remote SPV. Advance rates, eligibility, concentration limits, reserves, excess spread, waterfalls, and performance triggers — written into the facility, redirecting cash automatically on stress.
Capital.
River brings committed funding from a diversified base of capital partners — stablecoin ecosystems, credit funds, and family offices — and prices facilities in line with bank ABF desks and private credit funds, not crypto-native rates.
5–15% APR
Senior facilities at the bottom of the range. Mezzanine and unitranche higher up, with pricing determined by pool risk, advance rate, and capital tranche.
Stablecoin ecosystem capital
Programmable dollar liquidity from issuer treasuries and ecosystem partners — the new credit balance sheet.
Credit funds & allocators
Senior, mezzanine, and junior tranches placed with institutional credit allocators on River-led facilities.
Committed warehouses
Forward-flow commitments give borrowers a known funding line — capital available the day receivables are written.
Monitoring.
Obligor-level data flows directly from servicer systems into River’s monitoring stack, surfacing performance drift weeks before a quarterly tape would — early enough to act, not just observe.
T+0
River
Continuous obligor-level reporting. Trigger conditions evaluate on every borrowing-base update.
T+30–90
Traditional ABF
Monthly servicer tapes, quarterly compliance certs — material drift only visible at the next reporting cycle.
Advance-rate (LTV) reduction
When pool performance drifts, advance rates step down automatically — capital out is reduced before losses materialize.
Cash-flow redirection
Performance triggers redirect collections into reserve accounts or senior amortization — protecting the facility before discretionary intervention.
Eligibility tightening
New originations failing tightened eligibility are excluded from the borrowing base in real time — not at next month's compliance test.
Connectivity.
River connects multi-billion-dollar capital-intensive businesses to stablecoin ecosystems in a frictionless way. Stablecoin liquidity funds the facility on the back end; borrowers draw and repay in USD, run their operations exactly as they do today, and — if they choose — hold idle cash in partner ecosystems to pursue yield or participate directly.
Borrowers don’t change anything.
- Repay in USD on the existing cash-management rail.
- Off-ramp from stablecoin liquidity to USD happens inside the River SPV — invisible to the borrower's treasury team.
- No crypto custody, no on-chain settlement risk, no token mechanics on the borrower's balance sheet.
Optional — but unlocked.
- Park idle treasury in USDC or USDT inside accounts River already serves.
- Access broader on-chain yield strategies or participate directly in ecosystem programs.
- Move back to USD same-day, on-demand, through the same River off-ramp.
- For the stablecoin ecosystem: a multi-billion-dollar Fortune-500 balance sheet on-platform.
The yield is real, but the relationship is the unlock — capital-intensive enterprises onboarded to stablecoin ecosystems alongside the credit facility.
One platform. Multiple credit structures.
River finds the right structure for the asset, counterparty, and capital base — not the other way around.
Senior debt
First-lien secured financing with priority repayment and collateral protections.
Mezzanine financing
Subordinated capital positioned between senior debt and equity.
Unitranche facilities
Combined senior and subordinated debt within a single facility for simplified execution.
Forward flow agreements
Committed capital for ongoing asset origination with automated deployment.
Back leverage
Financing secured against existing fund positions to enhance capital efficiency.
Syndicated facilities
Large-scale transactions involving institutional co-investors.
$50M – $300M
~$200M
Facilities cluster around the mid-$200M range, with capacity to scale up or down by structure.
Credit first. Then the rest of the institutional stack.
River’s structuring and monitoring layer extends to every place stablecoin liquidity meets institutional balance sheets — five products that turn the platform into a full venue for stablecoin capital.
Treasury management
Idle corporate cash from the stablecoin ecosystems River serves, routed into yield-bearing, risk-managed positions.
Regular liquidity
Programmable, recurring liquidity for capital deployments that need cadence — draws, settlement cycles, payouts.
Term tranching
Multi-tenor exposure on the same facility — 30 / 90 / 180 / 365 day brackets matched to allocator duration.
Risk tranching
Full composability — tranching and segregation of risk by seniority, tenor, and pool exposure.
Hedging solutions
FX, rate, and credit hedging built into the facility — fiat-native borrowers, USD-native allocators, hedged at structuring time.