Starling, a new-generation digital bank, is launching its Banking-as-a-Platform APIs to allow businesses to offer their own unique retail banking payments services, including card issuing as an API.
Starling’s pioneering Banking-as-a-Platform offer enables businesses – including retailers, brands and fintechs – to develop and scale new customised products, such as savings or current accounts and debit cards, quickly and efficiently without the need for long development lead-times and complex legal arrangements. They can pick and choose individual components, or product features from Starling. Because they are using Starling’s banking licence, they do not need to become a regulated entity – customers will be opening Starling accounts.
Starling’s first Banking-as-a-Platform partnership is with Raisin UK, the online savings marketplace that allows customers to pick the best savings deals on the market to meet their individual needs. The deal will enable Raisin UK to use Starling’s APIs to open accounts for each customer, collect their deposits and place them at their expanding network of partner banks that participate in its marketplace.
The strategic partnership will, over time, also enable existing Starling customers to benefit from Raisin UK partner bank offers through Starling’s own marketplace. Anne Boden, chief executive of Starling Bank, said: “Platform strategies have taken off in many other industries, with Airbnb, Uber and Apple becoming major players in the markets for accommodation, transport and music and yet owning no properties, vehicles or content themselves. As a new generation digital bank, Starling is now bringing the model to UK banking, enabling other businesses to build banking services on top of its own-label banking infrastructure.”
Starling’s API can be implemented with just a few lines of code. Starling Bank is directly connected to major payment schemes, including Faster Payments, SEPA, Bacs, and MasterCard Debit.
Starling may be the UK’s first bank-as-a-platform but they’re not the only ones developing customisable API. To see what Moneyhub have been working on, read; Moneyhub Secures FCA Authorisation to Enable Payments and Launches API Gateway
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