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The BaaS Gold Rush is On

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To do this, banks can leverage their competencies in payments, lending, operations, and risk management while using the earnings generated from BaaS to transform their core business. Even beyond fintechs, more and more brands are looking for ways to wrap financial services, especially embedded finance, around their existing products.

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Banks On Notice: Fintechs Are Coming For Checking Accounts & Debit Cards

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These companies come from diverse fintech backgrounds — P2P money transfers, wealth management, lending — but all are rushing to create checking account alternatives within their pre-existing products. This backdoor around banking regulations could prove to be extremely fruitful for fintechs in the future.

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The 2019 GonzoBanker Awards

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Even with worries around an allegedly discriminatory algorithm, Silicon Valley UX met big bank Wall Street money in slick onboarding that has our attention. Sweet Deal for the Acquiree) Award –Goes to Honey Science Corporation for its $4 billion acquisition by PayPal with Honey keeping its brand and HQ. Overpriced Unicorn (a.k.a.

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The 2022 GonzoBanker Awards

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As if that wasn’t enough, regulators took a sledgehammer to debit fee income with Reg II changes that will begin reducing card-not-present interchange fees starting in July 2023. SoFI gets a commercial bank that brings deposits, compliance, AND business lending. As expected, these rate hikes stopped the mortgage industry in its tracks.

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