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Lithic Card Issuer Processing

More than 100 fintechs use the core card account processing services of Lithic to deliver credit, debit and prepaid card products to their consumer and commercial customers. Lithic also provides card processing services to banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform providers, some of which use the company on a white-label basis. Currently, most spending from all cards Lithic handles originates in the US and Canada. Lithic, which expects to process $30 billion in purchase volume this year, has direct connections to Visa, Mastercard, American Express and some PIN debit networks. Servicing and...

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