Banking-as-a-Service
This hub gathers everything Charge Forward knows about banking-as-a-service for software companies — the vendors, the unit economics, and the decision questions buyers actually ask. See the methodology.
Banking-as-a-Service vendors (7)
- Unit — Embedded finance infrastructure enabling software platforms to launch banking, lending, and payments in weeks.
- Stripe Treasury — Banking-as-a-service for platforms. Offer bank accounts, cards, and money movement.
- Plaid — Financial data connectivity and verification platform.
- Increase — Enterprise-grade banking APIs giving technology companies direct access to Federal Reserve, Visa, and Clearing House rails.
- Synctera — BaaS platform connecting fintechs to sponsor banks for embedded banking, card issuing, and compliance.
- EasyTeam — Shopify-native team management and payroll for retail, plus an embedded version for software platforms.
- Finch — Unified employment API connecting fintechs to 250+ payroll and HRIS systems for data and write-back.