The first wave of fintech companies a decade ago proved that we don’t need physical locations for banking. Now, the next wave is unlocking the remaining infrastructure for building better financial services: banking licenses, payment processors, regulatory compliance, and so on. Because startups (and incumbents) can now draw on these APIs and more, they can create better products that help many, many more people. It also means that any company could become a financial services company… imagine banking with your favorite brand!

By Angela Strange - Originally published at this link

Highlights :

The fintech trends transforming the infrastructure of banking

Where we are in banking today; the current state of financial services

Angela outlines the problems with modern financial services.

Drawing parallels between the process of software development and the current problems in financial services.

Definition of “AWS phase” of financial services

How Uber and Lyft are integrating banking services into their business model

Why the “as a service” trend is reaching the banking industry now

Angela analyzes the banking stack and shares what it takes to start a bank

How to build a financial planning app

Current on trend apps: Plaid as a case study

Current on trend apps: Synapse as a case study

Angela examines regulation in banking and our current approach to anti-money laundering

Current on trend apps: Comply Advantage as a case study

Current on trend apps: Sentilink as a case study

“Now, what's so unique about this disruption is that oftentimes there's one winner and there's a ton of losers. But in this case, everyone has the opportunity to participate and improve significantly. For startups, we've seen some of the examples of the new infrastructure companies that are being built, and there's many more opportunities there. But there's even more opportunities in the thousands of experiments that are gonna be unleashed on top.”  “Now, we would expect this innovation to come from startups, to come from existing financial services institutions. But a great majority of it, I think, will come from companies that are adding financial services for the very first time.”