- Provides an overview of BaaS and its key opportunities, challenges, and risks, helping readers make sense of a complex field
- Shows how BaaS business models work, supported by explanatory diagrams of partner bank and business operating models
- Explores how BaaS operating models work in different global territories such the US, UK and Europe, MENA, APAC, Africa and Latin America
- Provides analysis of bank call report data and real-world examples of companies such as Blue Ridge Bank, Unit, Synapse, Goldman Sachs, Railsr, Starling, Solaris and Cacao Paycard, along with lessons learned
- Supported by data sets and visualizations that speak to why BaaS is appealing for banks, including cost of funds data and return on equity and asset analysis
Banking as a Service
Opportunities, Challenges, and Risks of New Banking Business Models
Explore banking-as-a-service (BaaS) and its applications, opportunities, challenges, and risks and the key differences across global markets with this comprehensive guide.
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EAN: 9781398617889
Edition: 1
Published:
Format: 234x156
264 pages
About the book
This book provides a comprehensive look at banking-as-a-service (Baas), equipping readers with an understanding of the origins, evolution, future and applications of BaaS and the key differences across global markets.
BaaS is a game changer in the financial services sector, radically transforming both how consumers experience financial products and the business models delivering them. Banking as a Service cuts through the hype to provide a measured overview of BaaS, helping readers to demystify a complex evolving field and understand its key opportunities, challenges and risks. It provides a framework for understanding where BaaS came from, how BaaS changes the economics and business models of banking products and services, its impact on key stakeholders, and its key regulatory implications.
Banking as a Service explains how business and operating models work, exploring different models such as interchange, deposit gathering, loan origination-to-distribute, legacy, API-first, own licence, match-making and bank service providers and offers a framework for thinking about whether or not they're sustainable. It explores how BaaS operating and business models compare in different global territories and is supported by real-world examples and cases profiling organizations such as Blue Ridge Bank, Unit, Synapse, Goldman Sachs, Railsr, Starling, Solaris, Cacao Paycard, QNB, OnePipe, Airwallex, Nium and Pomelo. It also explains the differences between BaaS, embedded finance and open banking.
About the authors
Jason Mikula is the publisher of Fintech Business Weekly, a newsletter going beyond the headlines to analyse the technology, regulatory and business model trends driving the rapidly evolving financial services ecosystem at the intersection of traditional banking, payments, fintech and crypto. He also advises, consults for and invests in early-stage startups. Previously, he spent over a decade building and scaling consumer finance businesses, including at Enova, LendUp, and Goldman Sachs. He is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Jason Mikula's experience as an operator in fintech and banking, combined with his incredible reporting on the banking-as-a-service space over the last few years, makes him the best person to write the definitive book on the past, present, and future of BaaS. He's done just that.
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