Synctera Blog
Your go-to resource for Banking as a Service insights, guides to building FinTech apps and embedded banking products, and updates from Synctera
People
Synctera’s First CFO and the 2025 Road to Profitability
2024 was a big year for Synctera. 2025 is already shaping up to be even better.
Product
April Product Update
Learn about the product launches and new functionality from April in this month's product update.
Guides
Getting BaaS Right: The Guide to Creating Successful Partnerships
In this guide we break down the six principles for how sponsor banks and non-bank companies need to operate together to form strong and compliant partnerships.
Product
March Product Update
Learn about the product launches and new functionality from March in this month's product update.
Product
Synctera Integrates with Plaid's Core Exchange for Seamless Financial Connectivity and Money Movement
We're excited to announce our integration with Plaid's Core Exchange, enabling seamless financial connectivity for our customers' end-user account holders
(Beyond) Ready to Scale - Extending our Series A Round and Welcoming our New CRO
We're excited to announce an $18.6M extension to our Series A funding, led by our existing investors Lightspeed and Fin Capital. We've also brought on a new CRO to help fuel our next phase of growth.
Product
Introducing SyncteraPay: A Seamless Integration with Any Payment Provider
Introducing SyncteraPay, a new feature that allows our customers to work with any payment provider and have all transaction information centralized and seamlessly integrated into the Synctera Ledger.
Building For Impact - 2023 and Beyond
The theme of 2023 for Synctera was "building for impact". Let's take a look back at some of the product, customer, and growth highlights from the past year.
Product
Making Sense of Reconciliation in Banking
Reconciliation is an integral part of banking, as it helps ensure that you have an accurate record of your customers' transaction and account balance data. In this article we dive into the details of what reconciliation is and how it functions.
Product
Synctera is Live in Canada
We're excited to announce that our platform is live in Canada, allowing us to help unlock financial innovation in how Canadian businesses and consumers manage their money.
Product
From Entrepreneur To Enabler: Unlocking Innovation in Canada with Synctera
Having been through the process of building a neobank in Canada, I learned about the challenges and opportunities that come with such an endeavor. These learnings helped shape our platform in Canada, helping us unlock financial innovation for companies throughout the country.
Product
Scaling Trust: Bringing Synctera to Canada the Right Way
Compliance plays a pivotal role in ensuring the long-term success of new, innovative banking products in Canada. We built our compliance program in a way where we scale trust within the entire financial ecosystem.
BaaS
Leverage Banking Data to Scale Effectively and Remain Compliant
When offering a banking product to your customers, you'll have access to a wealth of data about how they use your product. The only question is, what to do with all of this information?
Product
Come Build With Us: The Synctera Sandbox Is Now Open in Canada
Today, we’re excited to announce our sandbox environment now allows companies to build and test their Canada-specific banking products!
Partners
Welcoming Stearns Bank To The Synctera Community
We're excited to share that Stearns Bank has joined Synctera's community of sponsor banks who help companies of all sizes build great financial products and services.
Changelogs
Changelog: August 2023
A summary of the Banking as a Service product updates we've made over the last month
Guides
Your Guide to Embedded Banking
Embedded banking allows non-bank companies to offer banking products to their customers. This guide provides examples, explains the benefits, and dives into how it works to help you better understand this trend.
Product
Building together, with the help of Synctera.AI
Learn more about Synctera.AI, a chatbot that uses an LLM trained on our public developer and functional information. Whether you are wanting to learn more about embedded banking or are building with Synctera, you can ask it specific questions and instantly get helpful responses.
Changelogs
Changelog: July 2023
A summary of the Banking as a Service product updates we've made over the last month
Guides
The Embedded Banking Use Case Guide for Vertical SaaS Providers
For vertical SaaS providers, embedding banking products can help them build a stickier product and increase revenue. This article dives into some of the ways they can integrate banking products into their platform in order to build a better customer experience.
Changelogs
Changelog: June 2023
A summary of the Banking as a Service product updates we've made over the last month
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