If you’re issuing cards or building a neobank, a subtle but important choice to make is who you partner with as an issuing bank.[1] The bank is a critical part of the banking as a service ecosystem. Roughly speaking, you as the neobank play the marketing and customer facing role, the banking-as-a-service partner you work with plays the technical in... See more

Rather than interpreting fintech's job as bringing Old World institutions online, embedded finance modularizes financial functions. Rather than directly involving a bank, payments can be made across the web through embedded tools like Stripe, Adyen, PayPal, and Square.