Qenta

Qenta Inc. functions as a financial technology platform with a mission to digitize global assets and transactions, primarily targeting emerging markets in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. The company was founded by Brent de Jong and established in its current form in 2021, with its headquarters in Houston, Texas, and a global presence across 17 countries with over 400 employees. De Jong, who serves as Chairman and CEO, brings over two decades of experience in global investments, finance, and scaling businesses, having founded multiple ventures including Emergent Technology Holdings and Ashmore Energy International.

The company's business model is structured around three integrated segments. The Qenta Digital Assets division focuses on the tokenization of assets, offering services for provenance, custody, and ownership tracking, with a notable product being the G-Coin®, a digital token representing one gram of physically vaulted, responsibly sourced gold. The Qenta Payments segment provides a global payments orchestration platform, enabling pay-ins and pay-outs through various methods like cash, mobile money, and alternative payment methods (APMs), particularly for remittance platforms, eWallets, banks, and NGOs. The third pillar, Qenta Capital & Risk Management, delivers specialized hedging products and margin financing for soft commodities and precious metals. This integrated structure allows clients, such as farmers in emerging markets, to access risk management, digital currency payments, and earlier financing through blockchain-based supply chain tracking on a single platform.

Qenta's technological foundation is its proprietary enterprise-grade blockchain, the Qenta Operating System (QOS), a private, permissioned system that supports various tokens and smart contracts. The company generates revenue by providing these comprehensive financial services to a client base that includes financial institutions, governments, businesses, and individuals. Strategic acquisitions have been central to Qenta's growth, including the 2022 acquisition of Austrian payment processor QENTA Payment CEE and the 2025 purchase of Pipit Global, a cross-border payments platform. The Pipit acquisition significantly expanded Qenta's network, adding over a million pay-in points and enhancing its capabilities in cash and mobile money transfers across Africa and Latin America, with Pipit's co-founder Ollie Walsh becoming President of Qenta.

Keywords: financial technology, digital assets, asset tokenization, global payments, emerging markets, cross-border payments, remittance services, G-Coin, responsible gold, blockchain technology, supply chain finance, capital management, risk hedging, commodities trading, mobile money, alternative payment methods, financial inclusion, Brent de Jong, digital wallet, payment orchestration