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

Guides
How Embedded Finance is Driving the Next Wave of Payroll Innovation
Embedded finance is enabling payroll providers to offer employees faster access to wages and easier ways to spend.
Changelogs
Changelog: May, June, and July 2022
Over the past few months, the Synctera product team has been hard at work building innovative new debit card, ACH, KYC, account verification, and platform features that make it even faster and easier to build a financial product than ever before. We also released wire transfers and transfers with cards in alpha. Read about our work.
Guides
Ultimate Guide to Lines of Credit
Lines of Credit are an important way today’s consumers can get access to credit to manage expenses, make purchases manageable, and more. FinTechs can also unlock a new revenue stream by offering Lines of Credit to their customers in an increasingly competitive credit-product market.
Product
What is a Case Management System?
Case managers or case management systems are designed to help teams manage cases related to fraud, KYC, AML, and more. Read about how Synctera is making it easy for teams to manage compliance and operations for their financial products.
People
What the ParityPledge Means to Me
Synctera announced its commitment to the Parity Pledge. Learn more about this exciting DEI initiative and how one of Synctera’s Leaders, David Holmes-Kinsella (DHK), thinks about extending it beyond just the interview process
Changelogs
Changelog - April 2022
Our latest updates to the Synctera platform. This month, there’s new features and fixes for: KYC - SSN Prefill; Card updates
Guides
The FinTech's Guide to Interchange Revenue
What is interchange revenue? What’s the first step to earning revenue from interchange fees? How do I make a card program? We answer these common FinTech questions and show you how to generate revenue from interchange fees by building a card program for your FinTech use case.
People
A Day in the Life of a Synctera Front-End Engineer
What does a Front-end engineer do? Learn about Jenni Street: a Synctera Front-End Engineer working on the FinTech's developer documentation site, our tech platform, and t-minus10 Jenni’s pod FaaS and Furious helps make it easy for FinTechs to onboard and start building financial services
Guides
FinTech Founders' Guide
Personalized financial services like affinity banking, embedded finance, and more are here to stay. As you’re building your FinTech, this blog will help you think about developing your idea and taking it to market fast.
BaaS
Top Six Risk Management Responsibilities for FinTechs
While effective risk management requires close coordination between the FinTech and the bank, there are specific responsibilities borne by the FinTech that must also be incorporated. This blog post examines the top six risk management responsibilities for FinTechs when partnering with banks.
BaaS
Navigating FinTech Fraud: How Banks and FinTechs Can Work Together to Prevent Fraudulent Activities
How banks and FinTechs can work together to protect their businesses from fraudulent activities
BaaS
How to Stand Up a Card Product with Banking as a Service
Building and launching a debit cards program is difficult and time-consuming. The FinTech must find an issuing bank sponsor, perform the necessary due diligence, and be prepared to provide ongoing oversight to ensure the debit cards program is compliant with all applicable laws.
Product
Synctera’s Modern Approach to Security Compliance
This blog describes the unique security approach we take with our systems, controls, and processes and demonstrates how we meet and exceed recognized security standards without creating friction in our day-to-day operations.
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