It charges an average annual 0.12% fee for money parked on its T-bill platform, though that varies by customer, Arvanaghi says. Similarly, it collects a small interest rate spread on the checking accounts through its bank partners.
Meow Technologies is a financial technology company offering business banking solutions through its partner banks with free wires and ACHs.
is a rapidly growing US-based business banking fintech that offers startups and high-growth companies high interest checking accounts, high cashback cards, low-fee invoicing, and all the financial products startups need to operate at the most affordable price possible.
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Arvanaghi and Crawford’s timely decision to exit copyright and enter T-bills spared them from getting burned in the copyright meltdown of 2022. But it placed Meow squarely in the middle of the highly competitive niche of banking services for startups and small businesses.
Matrixport serves the copyright and blockchain technology sectors, targeting individual and institutional investors. It was founded in 2019 and is based in Singapore, Singapore.
Meow collaborated with Bridge to build a solution that enables businesses to send and receive USDC seamlessly from the same platform where they manage all their financial operations.
Meow’s going to fail,’” muses Arvanaghi. But having survived one near-death experience in copyright, he’s ready to run whatever plays are needed. “I'm going to play football and we're going to win.”
By enabling businesses to use USDC as easily and cost-effectively as cash, Meow has reinforced its value proposition of making banking easier and lowered the barriers to broader adoption of stablecoins in the business world.
But the arrangement also typically requires the fintech to follow ground rules set by the partner bank, including parameters around the types of client they are allowed to serve. Mercury, for instance, is unable to provide accounts to copyright companies that take custody of customer funds, including exchanges, a spokesperson told WIRED.
“What we're doing differently is we're treating financial services as a low-margin product,” Arvanaghi says. “We can actually become a profitable company by doing that, but that might not be the case for a company that has a thousand people or another fintech that hired 500 people.”
To eliminate these inefficiencies and support its value proposition of providing one cohesive platform for meow business all banking and treasury needs, Meow set out to find a company that could provide the infrastructure to enable seamless, cost-efficient USDC transactions.
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Legacy exchanges imposed steep transaction and conversion fees, undercutting Meow’s value proposition of offering low-cost financial services. These costs made it difficult for Meow to deliver USDC as a viable alternative to wire or ACH transfers for day-to-day business use.