- Live Oak Bank has enhanced its commercial and small business banking services by partnering with Finzly for its Fedwire solution.
- Finzly’s technology enables 100% straight-through processing (STP) and will help ensure the bank is compliant with upcoming ISO 20022 regulations.
- Finzly is a two-time Finovate Best of Show award winner. The company most recently demoed its technology at FinovateSpring 2022 in San Francisco.
Payment and financial solutions provider Finzly announced this week that Live Oak Bank has enhanced its commercial and small business banking services by implementing Finzly’s Fedwire solution. The deployment enables 100% straight-through processing (STP) and facilitates the bank’s compliance with upcoming ISO 20022 compliance requirements ahead of schedule.
Fedwire is a real-time electronic funds transfer system operated by the Federal Reserve Banks, enabling financial institutions to send and receive money. It is the main network in the US used by businesses and government agencies for large and/or time-critical payments. ISO 20022 refers to a new message format that will be adopted by the Fedwire Funds Service on July 14, 2025, four months later than the initial deadline of March 10 established in June 2022. The goal of the new format is to enhance the quality of financial messaging, facilitate cross-border payments, and reduce manual processing.
Finzly’s Fedwire solution provides instant settlement, real-time visibility, and complete automation for Fedwire payments. The technology leverages Finzly’s pre-wired, tested, and certified connections to the Fed to keep banks and other financial institutions a step ahead when it comes to implementing Fedwire, complying with ISO 20022 standards, and launching new value-added services. Banks benefit from not only faster settlements, streamlined payments, and automation of key tasks, but also from the ability to seamlessly support multiple cores. This enables banks to process transactions across multiple core systems while integrating with digital banking, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and fraud monitoring via open APIs.
“This partnership with Finzly gives our payment infrastructure the flexibility to adapt to customers’ needs, while also allowing us to streamline operations for our internal teams,” Mark Moroz, Live Oak Bank Head of Deposits and Payments, said. “With 100% STP in Fedwire processing and seamless multi-core integration, we are positioned to set new benchmarks in speed, efficiency, and customer experience.”
Headquartered in Wilmington, North Carolina, Live Oak Bank is a cloud-based digital bank that serves small businesses throughout the US. One of the largest SBA 7(a) lenders by dollar volume, Live Oak Bank initially specialized in providing financing for niche businesses such as veterinarians and dentists. Today, Live Oak Bank has more than $12 billion in assets as of Q4 2024 and is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker LOB. Founded in 2008, Live Oak Bank has a market capitalization of $1.49 billion.
“We are proud to partner with Live Oak, a bank led by visionary leaders, offering modern, connected banking services for its customers,” Finzly founder and CEO Booshan Rengachari said. “Our partners at Live Oak Bank are committed to delivering the best solutions without compromise. We are excited to support them in this mission.”
Two-time Finovate Best of Show winner Finzly most recently demoed its technology on the Finovate stage at FinovateSpring 2022 in San Francisco. At the conference, the North Carolina-based fintech showed how its bank operating system, FinzlyOS, enables organizations to quickly launch a modern, new digital bank from scratch. The bank featured direct connections to all payment networks, including ACH, wires, RTP, FedNow, and Swift, as well as a multi-currency general ledger, low-code customer-onboarding forms, online experiences, and more.
Live Oak Bank is only the latest partnership announced by Finzly this year. In February, the company reported that San Antonio, Texas-based Vantage Bank had chosen its unified payment hub to consolidate and future-proof its payment infrastructure. A family-owned community financial institution with a commitment to innovation and a strong focus on international services, Vantage Bank has $4.5 billion in assets. Also, at the beginning of the year, Wings Credit Union, Minnesota’s largest credit union with more than $9.3 billion in assets, announced that it was going live on Finzly’s Fedwire platform.