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The banking world is very much point-to-point, everyone knows everyone else, because money transfer is a licensed business in the United States. Any money trans
by salawat 4y ago
The banking world is very much point-to-point, everyone knows everyone else, because money transfer is a licensed business in the United States. Any money transmitter has a responsibility to comply with AML/KYC requirements, so ZK banking isn't technically a thing. It's an oxymoron.
Now if you're talking about providing interfaces and integrations to the plethora of banks out there, a la what Plaid claimed to be doing, then you've got exactly the issue you're describing. You must have enough process and compliance chops to satisfy the various money transmitters you're integrating with that even giving you the credentials to handle people's financial information is not going to put them at excessive risk. With that comes the need to be profitable enough to pay people to implement said processes, which is generally why B2C financial services companies typically live off fees/monetizing data in some way, shape, or form.
Do not go looking at Plaid for answers, because what they were up to was a gross violation of professional ethics, and they have been the subject of class action suits over it.
It's unfortunate, but we've literally turned our financial system into a de facto arm of law enforcement. Anything that doesn't do so is by definition not a legitimate/compliant enterprise in the United States.
Now you might be able to supply a toolkit such that end users can build their own integrations if you're really good at making domething to do most of the heavy lifting for end users. Good luck on the marketing though.