“Our platform enables businesses to power all of their accounts payable and accounts receivable activities directly on their own channels,” Zūm Rails CEO Miles Schwartz said in an email.

Zūm Rails offers open banking and instant payment services, and had raised $10.5 million as of February, said Schwartz, who is also a Zūm Rails co-founder.

Zūm Rails is not a bank, but offers banking-as-a-service and issues debit cards, Schwartz said.

The partnership lets Zūm Rails' clients integrate open banking and embedded payments directly into their existing payments platforms, to will help them analyze transaction data, the news release said.

Zum Rails’ customers include the San Francisco-based real estate platform Homebase, the release said.

The Canadian company aims to use the partnership to eventually offer more services. For example, Zūm Rails has plans to offer its own debit cards to facilitate direct spending.

The Georgia Department of Banking and Finance granted Fiserv a special purpose banking charter that lets the payments firm process credit card transactions without a banking partner, the agency announced on Friday. A Zūm Rails spokesperson said the partnership is not related to the charter.

A Fiserv spokesperson declined to comment beyond what was written in the Zūm Rails news release.

By Patrick Cooley on Oct 7, 2024
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