TLDR Tech / Fintech
Podcast: How Marqeta Built the $400B Modern Card Issuing Platform, with CEO Mike Milotich
This podcast episode discusses how Marqeta's separation of bank, processor, and brand armed fintech's largest winners across buy now pay later, on-demand delivery, neo-banking, and expense management with the Lego blocks to build their own card programs. It explains how the company's growth is shifting from enabling new use cases to displacing volume on legacy bank platforms, and explores why card issuing is going multinational, what the agentic commerce wave actually requires to clear security and behavioural hurdles, and how Marqeta's continued growth runs through embedded finance, real-time personalisation, and the forced modernisation of the banks themselves.
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