US banking start-up BetaBank taps Finxact for cloud-native core

Finxact, a Fiserv company and core banking tech provider, has been chosen by Chicago-based start-up BetaBank to power its product ecosystem ahead of its upcoming launch.

BetaBank to deploy Finxact’s core

BetaBank submitted its banking charter application in April this year. It aims to build from scratch “a fully-automated digital lending platform driven by algorithms designed to remove inherent decisioning bias from traditional underwriting processes for small businesses”.

The company has been working with Google and claims it will be “one of the first US banks” to run a next-gen core in Google Cloud.

The digital bank will have the ability to lend across the country, but aims to initially focus on the Chicago-area community of small businesses.

Finxact’s headless core is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for US-based financial institutions. Its cloud-native core banking system provides access to data and functions via APIs, allowing banks to create products and integrate new services.

“BetaBank is what the future of lending will look like: democratised, fully-automated, purely digital, fair and transparent for the borrower, and cost efficient for the lender to serve SMBs and even sole proprietors,” says Ryan Victor, chief revenue officer of Finxact.