Why fintechs can’t wait for Washington: how a former Citi CCO turned 24‑month US licenses into a 3‑month hack
How the sponsor-bank model offers a faster, fully supervised path to the US market - and why compliance is the price of admission.
For a non-US fintech, the US banking licence process is the regulatory equivalent of dial-up internet: slow, expensive, and completely out of sync with how the rest of your business moves.






