“Financial technology leader FIS ® (NYSE: FIS) today announced its Banking-as-a-Service Hub, enabling banks, credit unions, and fintechs to build the digital banking and payments ecosystems they need to deliver innovation to merchants and consumers. The FIS Banking-as-a-Service Hub provides a full suite of banking and payments capabilities for institutions of all sizes, allowing for more opportunities to deliver embedded finance solutions for superior customer experiences.”

“Finastra today announced a Banking as a Service (BaaS) collaboration with Microsoft to bring new lending options to thousands of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) – a sector severely underserved when it comes to accessing finance. SMEs using Microsoft Dynamics 365 will be able to access and unlock vital financing offers without leaving their business management platform.”

“Synctera allows banking institutions to build new lines of business by sponsoring FinTechs and generating new revenue streams. BankProv and Synctera share the vision for a connected marketplace filled with opportunities for FinTech developers and customers to have more access and options for managing their money. BankProv is the eleventh community bank in Synctera’s marketplace helping FinTechs to launch and scale their products. Synctera will focus on bringing a card program to BankProv’s partnerships with FinTechs that offer cryptocurrency related services including exchange, deposits, and payment services.”

“First Internet Bank is doubling down on banking as a service. It’s something the Fishers, Indiana, community bank has been doing on a limited basis for years — backing fintechs by handling tasks only a regulated institution is permitted to offer, such as Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.-insured deposits and checking accounts. The bank recently began working with a technology company, Synctera, to automate the process of connecting with fintechs and managing the flows of transactions and data back and forth through application programming interfaces.”

“Unit, the leading banking-as-a-service platform that empowers companies to embed financial services into their products, announced today that it has released a new pilot environment that enables companies to create live bank accounts and issue virtual cards in minutes. This pilot environment is a first-of-its-kind solution that allows companies to build accounts, cards, payments and more with real funds in minutes. Founders and developers are now able to sign up for a free account and instantly start building.”

“Jiko, the fintech startup that made headlines last year when it gained a national charter after purchasing a small Minnesota-based community bank , said it is pivoting from its consumer-focused model and accelerating its business-to-business strategy.”

“HSBC is to launch a Banking as a Service (BaaS) offering that will enable customers to create and provide business banking services through their own platforms. HSBC and Oracle NetSuite, one of the leading cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems with over 27,000 customers worldwide, are working together to provide international payments and expense management services embedded into NetSuite’s new SuiteBanking solution. NetSuite customers will be able to automate accounts payable, accounts receivable and reconciliation processes, making it fast and simple to pay bills, send invoices, get paid and gain full cash flow visibility, all from within a unified system.”

“Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company, today announced that Green Dot Corporation (NYSE: GDOT) has enlisted The Temenos Banking Cloud as its platform of choice to power its direct digital bank and banking platform services (or “BaaS”) partners, enabling more feature-rich, secure and streamlined banking and payment experiences for customers, as well as scalable growth. Temenos’ robust and scalable cloud platform will power Green Dot’s technology stack, enabling the leading Banking Platform Services (BaaS) provider’s partners to embed financial services – including credit, payment, lending, DDA accounts and other features – into their ecosystems.”

“Synctera , a new solution for partnership banking at scale, today announced the signing on of Marqeta and Mastercard as FinTech partners, launched its Card API, and added Regent Bank as a new banking partner.      Synctera’s Cards-as-a-Service offering, launching this fall, will complement its existing FinTech as a Service capabilities and allow FinTechs to easily launch and manage consumer and business debit card programs.”

“We have partnered with ClearBank to provide our fintech customers with access to payment schemes using ClearBank’s award-winning agency banking and banking-as-service product sets. The partnership will strengthen our Bank Connect solution by allowing its fintech clients to quickly and easily integrate Faster Payments, CHAPS, BACS and Direct Debit payments to improve the functionality of their offerings. The integration will allow end-users to instantly make and receive funds from their account, as well as initiate salary payments via BACs, and set-up Direct Debits.”

“Ambrook has been working to bring modern financial management tools to farmers. We’ve made great progress in just nine months, helping thousands of farmers apply to over $7M in funding for their operations. We recently launched Ambrook Wallet, a business cash account powered by Stripe Treasury , in order to help farmers seamlessly get access to their funds. When farmers apply to financial assistance programs with their Ambrook Wallet, they can finish the process without reaching for their credit card, and then receive helpful notifications about their payout status.”

“As the need of credit unions and community banks to accelerate their digital journey has skyrocketed post COVID, Agora Services, the challenger bank technology platform for community banks and credit unions , has developed two challenger style bank products for community banks and credit unions – Agora Teenz and Agora SMB. Built on Agora’s cutting-edge Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform, banks can deploy these products in five weeks without core integration for as little as $5,000 and no monthly fee for the first quarter.”

“Solarisbank, the German banking-as-a-service (BaaS) provider, is currently mulling the route of a special purpose acquisition company (Spac) merger to go public.  Solarisbank CEO Roland Folz According to Finance Forward, management and investors are currently discussing the sale to a listed company shell. Another round of financing, which would follow a $67.5 million Series C in June , is still on the cards, alongside a classic initial public offering (IPO). But management currently favour the Spac route, which could lead to an IPO in early 2022.”

“Banking as a service provider Railsbank has launched in Australia with local challenger bank Volt as its first client. Railsbank, which acquired large chunks of the former Wirecard UK business last Autumn, raised $37m in funding in November in part to fund such international expansion. As well as Australia, CEO and co-founder Nigel Verdon says Railsbank is planning to deepen its footprint in Japan, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam later this year. “This is a significant partnership for Railsbank as we continue not only our global expansion, but also strengthen our foothold in Asia Pacific,” said Verdon.”

“Treasury Prime, the leading Banking as a Service (BaaS) company, announced that it has partnered with Marqeta , the global modern card issuing platform, to bring Marqeta’s modern card issuing capabilities to the Treasury Prime API. For the first time, fintechs and other companies that want to embed banking services, can get access to both banking services and card issuing via a single API. The Treasury Prime-Marqeta partnership is live today with LendingClub Bank , National Association (successor to Radius Bank) and will be live in March with Piermont Bank .”

“Treasury Prime, the leading Banking as a Service (BaaS) company, announced today that after a competitive evaluation, Pacific Western Bank has chosen Treasury Prime as its technology provider to modernize its banking stack. Working with Treasury Prime, Pacific Western Bank will be able to offer API access to its banking systems as well as a digital platform for clients like fintech companies that want to embed banking services into their applications.”

“Goldman Sachs wants to help any company in the world become a bank. The firm has just released software that allows clients to embed banking services into their own products as part of a push to break into the $32 billion a year industry managing cash for big corporations, according to Hari Moorthy , Goldman’s global head of transaction banking.”

“Radius Bank , a forward-thinking digital bank, announced today the next step in its partnership with API (application programming interface) banking leader Treasury Prime with the launch of their Commercial API Banking Platform and corresponding sandbox testing environment. With API Banking, Radius has expanded its Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) digital platform by giving commercial clients leading-edge technology to help facilitate and simplify their corporate banking needs.”

“Afterpay has been named as Westpac’s first partner on its new digital “bank-as-a-service” platform.  Under the partnership, Afterpay will provide Westpac transaction and saving accounts, and other cashflow management tools to its 3.3 million Australian customers in Q2 2021.”