Modern Card Issuers

How These Upstarts’ API-Based Solutions Are Shaking Up Issuer Processing

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Powered by cloud-based APIs, modern card issuing leapfrogs traditional issuer processing to help non-financial services companies launch and customize card programs. Here’s where their offerings will be most disruptive.
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Modern card issuers are turbocharging the issuer processor space by offering API-based, customizable card solutions for non-financial services companies. Mobile payment services, ecommerce marketplaces, and the gig economy are in their sights—along with $17.12 billion in issuer processing revenues.

Key Question: How are modern card issuers growing within the issuer processing space?

KEY STAT: Modern card issuers Marqeta and SoFi have quickly carved out a 6.2% revenue niche among six key issuer processors—and they are poised to grow that share further as digital card issuance gains steam.

authors

Grace Broadbent, David Morris

Contributors

Eleni Digalaki
Principal Analyst
Melissa Rosenberg
Senior Researcher
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