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<ul><li>Over the last several years, there has been an explosion of retail, travel, SaaS, and other companies expanding into financial services.</li><li>Walmart, IKEA, ServiceTitan and Toast are just 4 of the companies that have launched products like underwriting, interest-free credit, payments and bank accounts in an effort to provide a better experience to their customers and get closer to their wallets.</li><li>As banking platforms around the world have opened up their APIs and banking itself has gone looking for new distribution channels, a new generation of “BaaS” companies has risen to take the premise of Marqeta one step further—offering not just cards but lending, crypto, deposits, and other banking products as a service.</li></ul>

Over the last several years, there has been an explosion of retail, travel, SaaS, and other companies expanding into financial services.Walmart, IKEA, ServiceTitan and Toast are just 4 of the companies that have launched products like underwriting, interest-free credit, payments and bank accounts in an effort to provide a better experience to their customers and get closer to their wallets.As banking platforms around the world have opened up their APIs and banking itself has gone looking for new distribution channels, a new generation of “BaaS” companies has risen to take the premise of Marqeta one step further—offering not just cards but lending, crypto, deposits, and other banking products as a service.

Banking-as-a-Service: The $1T Market To Build The Twilio Of Embedded Finance

<ul><li>Our view of the space is it's pretty nascent.</li><li>And that does give us the optionality later on if we want to enact option two, which is scale across multiple banks, or option three, which is architect the full stack and reverse out to a charter.</li><li>So when you talk about time to market, you also have to think about how progressive or conservative your program looks to a bank.</li></ul>

Our view of the space is it's pretty nascent.And that does give us the optionality later on if we want to enact option two, which is scale across multiple banks, or option three, which is architect the full stack and reverse out to a charter.So when you talk about time to market, you also have to think about how progressive or conservative your program looks to a bank.

Aaron Huang, Head Of Commercial At Productfy, On Choosing The Right Fintech Customers

<ul><li>BaaS players have the next 12 – 24 months to build a default platform for anyone who wants to issue cards.</li><li>The gap in the market currently is that no issuer processor or BaaS platform is fast to market, easy on pricing and scalable.</li><li>It’s likely BaaS sector would sustain high double-digit growth for at least the next 5 years, driven by a mix shift from cash to card, market share gain and TAM expansion from embedded finance.</li></ul>

BaaS players have the next 12 – 24 months to build a default platform for anyone who wants to issue cards.The gap in the market currently is that no issuer processor or BaaS platform is fast to market, easy on pricing and scalable.It’s likely BaaS sector would sustain high double-digit growth for at least the next 5 years, driven by a mix shift from cash to card, market share gain and TAM expansion from embedded finance.

Banking-as-a-Service: Monetization, Competition, And Growth In The Fintech Fastlane

<ul><li>Ramp is one of the fastest-growing fintech companies built on BaaS, with virtual cards powering their corporate card GTM on the front-end and their automatic expense categorization on the back-end.</li><li>Fast forward to today, a lot of what I would call modern issuers, like Marqeta, Stripe and Galileo, have made that process a lot easier.</li><li>In the case of Ramp, because we&#39;re servicing businesses, we don&#39;t think there&#39;s a lot of change on the horizon with interchange.</li></ul>

Ramp is one of the fastest-growing fintech companies built on BaaS, with virtual cards powering their corporate card GTM on the front-end and their automatic expense categorization on the back-end.Fast forward to today, a lot of what I would call modern issuers, like Marqeta, Stripe and Galileo, have made that process a lot easier.In the case of Ramp, because we&#39;re servicing businesses, we don&#39;t think there&#39;s a lot of change on the horizon with interchange.

Karim Atiyeh, co-founder And CTO Of Ramp, On The Future Of The Card Issuing Market

<ul><li>We&#39;re probably going to start implementing something in a few months. </li><li>We&#39;ve probably issued 100 cards off that.</li><li>We need to go fast because startups have a burn rate.</li></ul>

We&#39;re probably going to start implementing something in a few months. We&#39;ve probably issued 100 cards off that.We need to go fast because startups have a burn rate.

Andy Su, co-founder Of Pry, On How Fintechs Choose The Right BaaS Partners

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

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Banking-as-a-Service: The $1T Market To Build The Twilio Of Embedded Finance

The $1T market for banking-as-a-service is a bet on the rise of embedded finance, the technology-driven movement of financial products and services...

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Aaron Huang, Head Of Commercial At Productfy, On Choosing The Right Fintech Customers

Our expert interview with Productfy Head of Commercial Aaron Huang on the complex balancing act between BaaS companies and their fintech customers.

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Banking-as-a-Service: Monetization, Competition, And Growth In The Fintech Fastlane

We distill 100+ pages of expert interviews on banking-as-a-service into top takeaways and key questions.

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Karim Atiyeh, co-founder And CTO Of Ramp, On The Future Of The Card Issuing Market

Our expert interview with co-founder and CTO of Ramp, Karim Atiyeh, on how Ramp thinks about choosing card issuing partners for the future.

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Andy Su, co-founder Of Pry, On How Fintechs Choose The Right BaaS Partners

Our expert interview with Andy Su, co-founder of Pry, on building a modern FP&A platform and how Pry thinks about choosing partners for BaaS.

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