Where to Look for Value in the Fintech Wreckage
Fintech lenders, payment specialists and neobanks could make attractive acquisitions. But it's bank buyer beware, not an M&A spree.
Articles about Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS), embedded finance, and how non-banks can provide payments and banking services with fintech solutions and platforms.
Banking as a service is the hottest strategy going, as it can help pull in the deposits everyone craves. But it is neither a short-term solution, nor an easy one.
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Fintech lenders, payment specialists and neobanks could make attractive acquisitions. But it's bank buyer beware, not an M&A spree.
As an 'invisible' partner to nonbanks and fintechs that want to help customers with their financial needs, your bank gains new places to offer its services. A McKinsey expert lays out an action plan.
Building its own interactive 3D ecosystem gives a tech-savvy community bank potential entrée to over 5 million potential customers.
Branchless business bank supplements a fintech lending specialty with an SBA division, both funded by its growing banking as a service unit.
Banks will have to commit to BaaS with enough revenue to pay for adequate staff expertise and prepare for increased regulatory scrutiny.
Businesses need access to embedded banking products that can integrate with open banking and banking-as-a-service providers. Truist Bank is providing just that, says SVP of open and embedded banking Anthony Burton.
Banks will make better use of data to enhance decision making, automate processes and personalize CX. Here's how they can get there.
More fintechs and neobanks will likely fail due to funding issues. How that impacts banking-as-a-service arrangements is a crucial question.
Betting solely on rising interest rates to improve spreads doesn't give great odds. For many their bank charter may be their ultimate tool.
Cross River is a bank and a BaaS provider, coupled with a venture firm to tie it together. Here are the trends its leaders are investing in.
Embedded finance can be the seamless bridge between a bank brand, the consumer and ultimately the banking provider, says FIS Global's Mike Kresse and Taira Hall.
Embedded payments, like embedded finance, is inevitable in the modern banking industry. However, three-fourths of banks and credit union globally still aren't prepared for the trends, says Zeta's Bhavin Turakhia.
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A community bank — recapitalized by fintech investors — has developed a playbook other banks can use to embrace digital technology.
Formerly foes, fintechs now can be a lifeline through partnerships that enable banks to deliver banking-as-a-service and embedded finance.
A group of BaaS providers and other banks have developed a banking-fintech lexicon to help bring uniformity to a rapidly evolving strategy.
Why did Webster Bank pursue banking-as-a-service? It's working as a way to generate new revenue for the bank, says its head of digital banking and banking-as-a-service Matthew Smith.
Sofi has become the ultimate competitor for legacy financial institutions. It's on a mission to become more than just a direct-to-consumer fintech, says Galileo Financial Technologies' CEO Derek White.
The key to this bank's success is in its fintech and embedded banking investments, which led to explosive growth in payments and lending.
To capitalize on BaaS opportunities, banks must develop new solutions by collaborating with the right partners quickly.
Experience, being nimble and competing in business banking, rather than the consumer side, could put young Grasshopper into the black.
Growing numbers of banks are attracted to BaaS, but if they don't really understand the business then this fintech play is not for them.
Banks looking to capitalize on the booming banking-as-a-service business can study the strategy of MetaBank, a top fintech partner bank.
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