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

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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