Questions for the founding team, and others: What books or resources did you helpful in understanding the plumbing of the US banking system?
Central Banking 101 by Joseph Wang is incredible.
Column – a chartered bank for developers
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#22Very cool! Is this powered by Marqeta under the hood?
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#23Hey founder (and OP) here. This has been a labor of love for the past few years and I'm super stoked on what we shipped. Would love any and all feedback, thoughts and questions!
This looks like it's US only right now, is that correct? What are your plans to offer these services in other countries?
We plan on rolling out some corresponding banking services this year to help people with multi-currency accounts and international wires - but it would still be under our US charter. No short term plans to go international - there's a lot of ground we need to cover here. We tend to like to go very deep in an area instead of getting to spread thin.
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#24Looks amazing. Would love to have this in the UK.
Agree. But I wonder how much innovation a single company can do. The digital innovation in the UK across banking is massive. From what I see, light years ahead of the US.
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#25Hey founder (and OP) here. This has been a labor of love for the past few years and I'm super stoked on what we shipped. Would love any and all feedback, thoughts and questions!
How would you describe your business to a five year old?
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#26Very cool! Is this powered by Marqeta under the hood?
Nope! We're a bank not an issuing processor (its pretty confusing...), we don't wrap any vendors or 3rd parties. However, they're an excellent issuing processor so a bunch of our customers use them and us together.
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#27Hey founder (and OP) here. This has been a labor of love for the past few years and I'm super stoked on what we shipped. Would love any and all feedback, thoughts and questions!
No questions. Just wanted to say I got chills when I looked at this at how much potential it had. Very cool.
also: The little column icon slide to the top right on login is cool .
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#29Im consistently disappointed with the state of banks in the US (Aussie here). This looks amazing.
Would it be possible for me to build something for personal use on top of this? Or are you only targeting business at this stage?
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#30Questions for the founding team, and others: What books or resources did you helpful in understanding the plumbing of the US banking system?
Payments Systems in the U.S. by Carol Coye Benson is a great starter - it's a mandatory onboarding read at a lot of fintechs