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Guides, playbooks and product thinking on SEPA payments, virtual IBANs and embedded finance. Written for the people who build and run payment operations.

Latest articles

Payments

How embedded finance quietly became a revenue line

Payments used to be a cost center. For platforms that own the money flow, it is now one of the highest-margin things they ship.

Maria Ionescu8 min read
Compliance

PSD2 to PSD3: the compliance shifts that actually matter

Skip the legal recap. These are the four changes that will touch your onboarding, your data and your payment flows in practice.

Andrei Pop10 min read
Product

Assigning local IBANs without an e-money license

How platforms give every customer a real account number while smartIBAN carries the license, the compliance and the banking rails underneath.

smartIBAN team6 min read
Guides

A field guide to payment reconciliation at scale

The patterns, the edge cases and the automation that separate teams closing books in an hour from teams losing a week to it.

Maria Ionescu12 min read
Payments

Why marketplaces lose money on manual payouts

Batch files, IBAN typos and support tickets add up fast. A breakdown of where payout costs hide and how to design them away.

Andrei Pop7 min read
Compliance

KYC that does not wreck your onboarding funnel

Verification and conversion pull in opposite directions. Here is how to keep both, with a risk-based flow that adapts to the customer.

Elena Radu9 min read
Guides

The real cost of building payment infrastructure in-house

Licenses, banking partners, compliance headcount and the multi-year timeline nobody puts in the first business case.

smartIBAN team11 min read
Company

What we shipped this quarter: multi-currency wallets and more

New wallet currencies, faster IBAN provisioning and a rebuilt reconciliation view. A quick tour of what changed and why.

smartIBAN team5 min read
Payments

Instant settlement changes how you price your product

When money lands in seconds, float disappears and pricing assumptions break. What instant rails mean for your unit economics.

Maria Ionescu8 min read
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