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<ul><li>I think our thesis in 2019 is not different from the thesis today, which is, running a bank is quite different from running a fintech company.</li><li>Now that we&#39;re part of FIS and Atelio, we&#39;re doubling down on the vertical SaaS piece, partially because we&#39;re seeing demand and the value prop is fairly clear to the customers at scale.</li><li>There&#39;s no such thing as Twilio for Financial Services… financial services is not one of those places where &quot;Hey, here&#39;s a bunch of APIs. Build whatever you like.</li></ul>

I think our thesis in 2019 is not different from the thesis today, which is, running a bank is quite different from running a fintech company.Now that we&#39;re part of FIS and Atelio, we&#39;re doubling down on the vertical SaaS piece, partially because we&#39;re seeing demand and the value prop is fairly clear to the customers at scale.There&#39;s no such thing as Twilio for Financial Services… financial services is not one of those places where &quot;Hey, here&#39;s a bunch of APIs. Build whatever you like.

Roy Ng, EVP, Chief Business Officer At FIS, On The Future Of BaaS

<ul><li>We looked for emerging market leaders that sold not just to the growing fintechs, but those that could sell to both and could crack the up-and-comers and the legacy incumbents.</li><li>Some of these waves are ongoing, while the B2B payments software wave and a few new ones are percolating, but that&#39;s how I would summarize them quickly.</li><li>Fraud, in financial services, is a big industry and it&#39;s only going to grow.</li></ul>

We looked for emerging market leaders that sold not just to the growing fintechs, but those that could sell to both and could crack the up-and-comers and the legacy incumbents.Some of these waves are ongoing, while the B2B payments software wave and a few new ones are percolating, but that&#39;s how I would summarize them quickly.Fraud, in financial services, is a big industry and it&#39;s only going to grow.

Charles Birnbaum, Partner At Bessemer Venture Partners, On The Five Waves Of Fintech

<ul><li>We are proposing and have started to see a bunch of banks thinking about having a fintech division or group.</li><li>We&#39;ve already signed seven in the six months we&#39;ve been in the market.</li><li>By getting seven banks up and running, hopefully by March/April timeframe, we&#39;ll be able to do seven to ten -- maybe fifteen -- fintechs a month at launch.</li></ul>

We are proposing and have started to see a bunch of banks thinking about having a fintech division or group.We&#39;ve already signed seven in the six months we&#39;ve been in the market.By getting seven banks up and running, hopefully by March/April timeframe, we&#39;ll be able to do seven to ten -- maybe fifteen -- fintechs a month at launch.

Peter Hazlehurst, co-founder And CEO Of Synctera, On Matchmaking Fintechs And Sponsor Banks

<ul><li>We ultimately pivoted the business from being a B2C builder ourselves to becoming an API-based B2B platform that serves other fintech builders around these core infrastructure elements.</li><li>Bad infrastructure can kill a lot of businesses.</li><li>At Rize, we focus on a world where, again, our job is to be the horizontal connective tissue so that your process of getting to market as a neobank is not a 18 to 36 month process, but something that you can do in as little as 6 to 10 weeks.</li></ul>

We ultimately pivoted the business from being a B2C builder ourselves to becoming an API-based B2B platform that serves other fintech builders around these core infrastructure elements.Bad infrastructure can kill a lot of businesses.At Rize, we focus on a world where, again, our job is to be the horizontal connective tissue so that your process of getting to market as a neobank is not a 18 to 36 month process, but something that you can do in as little as 6 to 10 weeks.

Justin Howell, co-founder And CEO Of Rize, On The Horizontal Infrastructure Missing From Fintech Today

<ul><li>Shamir Karkal is the CEO and co-founder of payments infrastructure as a service business Sila.</li><li>The BBVA Open Platform never really got traction because it never solved the compliance problems for customers.</li><li>If I'm being honest, I expect to see another ten consolidated platforms, at least, launch in the next 18 plus months.</li></ul>

Shamir Karkal is the CEO and co-founder of payments infrastructure as a service business Sila.The BBVA Open Platform never really got traction because it never solved the compliance problems for customers.If I'm being honest, I expect to see another ten consolidated platforms, at least, launch in the next 18 plus months.

Shamir Karkal, co-founder And CEO Of Sila, On The Modern Payments Stack

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API-based software for embedding cards, accounts, and payments into vertical SaaS products

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Roy Ng, EVP, Chief Business Officer At FIS, On The Future Of BaaS

FIS acquired Bond in 2023. Can you talk about the acquisition, how it came about, and what were the triggers that made you decide to sell the...

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Charles Birnbaum, Partner At Bessemer Venture Partners, On The Five Waves Of Fintech

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Peter Hazlehurst, co-founder And CEO Of Synctera, On Matchmaking Fintechs And Sponsor Banks

Sacra's interview with Peter Hazlehurst, co-founder and CEO of banking-as-a-service platform Synctera.

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Justin Howell, co-founder And CEO Of Rize, On The Horizontal Infrastructure Missing From Fintech Today

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Shamir Karkal, co-founder And CEO Of Sila, On The Modern Payments Stack

Sacra's interview with Shamir Karkal, CEO and co-founder of Sila Money, about the history of payments infrastructure as a service and the trade...

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