Standard Treasury Series A Pitch Deck

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Zachary TownsendCo-founder um Standard Treasury
Series-A
Last six years Next six years
Trend: the application layer of financial services is exploding
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Behind every fintech application is a wholesale bank:
+ + +
3
Fintech apps are hard and costly because banks have:
bad technology
bad culture
bad technology culture
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We know this problem better than most.
The world’s largest banks had asked us to build them APIs.
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6
But we stopped to build our own wholesale bank:
the banking platform to power the fintech app revolution
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for every
makes
makes
Value
$3
$1
that
Top Down:
Banking revenue
$1 Trillion
Gross Value:
Wholesale banking
$259 Billion
TAM:
Global Startup
Wholesale banking
$5 Billion
Giant market with a focused start
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This is hard…
…what it takes:
▪ Great API platform
▪ Great backend infrastructure
▪ Banking license in at least one country (UK)
▪ Global roll out (US and Europe)
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Why now? The timing is right:
▪ Regulatory Changes
▪ Technology Maturity
▪ Rapidly growing market with eager customers
Our world class team
Chris Dean, 

VPE
Co-Founder, Merced
VP, BabyCenter
CalTech Physics
Mike Clarke:
Infrastructure Lead, 

Disqus
EE from Notre Dame
Jim Brusstar:
Eng Lead, Sidecar
Eng Lead, FB Platform
BSE in CS from Michigan
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Dan Kimerling, 

CEO

COO of Giftly, 

Analyst at TechCrunch
BA/MA, University 

of Chicago
Zac Townsend,
President

Risk @ Stripe,

CTO of Newark NJ

BA, Brown, MPA, NYU
Keith Ballinger, 

Head Architect 

Co-Creator of .Net;
Developer, 

Fed Reserve,
Published 2 software
books
David Jarvis:
Software Engineer
CircleCI;
Data Scientist, AK
BA, University of Chicago
Current landscape
BIG BANKS
UK
NEW UK BANKSSMALL BANKS
aren't nimble, 

too much 

legacy tech
bad technology but 

worse risk management 

and relationship with 

the regulators
these are all consumer-
focused retail banks
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Studied US Regulation
Studied UK regulation
Completed early legal and
regulatory work
Met UK Regulators
Complete Regulatory Work
Public API
Developer portal
SDKs
Core Ledger
Authenticate and Authorize
Built Product
H1'15
Prepare Application
Pre-Meetings and Challenge
Sessions
Consulting
Set up UK Subsidiary and
Operation
Regulation
Payment Systems
Customer Information System
Product
Bank CEO
Engineers
Designers
Hiring
H2'15
Application
Regulatory Assesment
Individual Capital Guidance
Individual Liquidty Guidance
Regulation
Product
Compliance
Engineers
Hiring
H1'16
Application
Goverenance
Policies/Procedures
IT Review
Regulation
Product
Compliance
Engineers
Operations
Support
Hiring
Infrastructure
Logging/Auditing
Online/Mobile Banking
Compliance/KYC/AML
Debit Issuance
Deployment
Testing/Launch
With $10M, we will get authorized in the UK
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LAUNCH
LAUNCH TO PRESENT
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Series A Financials
Month 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Total
Phase 1: Application Phase 2: Authorization Phase 3: Mobilizations Phase 4: Customers Live
Current Burn
• SF Office 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 240
• Five Engineers 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 1680
• Two Founders 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 408
• Benefits, etc 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 792
New Personnel in UK
• Bank CEO 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 420
• Compliance 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 315
• Risk 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 315
• Designer 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 120
• UK Office 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 210
New Personnel in the US
• Engineers
• Security 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 288
• Product 12 12 12 12 24 24 24 24 24 24 36 36 36 36 36 36 48 48 48 48 48 48 696
• Infrastructure 12 12 12 12 12 12 24 24 24 24 24 24 216
Regulatory Work
• Regulatory Advisor 150 150 250 250 350 350 150 150 150 150 150 150 25 25 25 25 25 25 2550
• Legal Work 25 25 25 25 50 50 10 10 10 10 10 10 260
Total 337 337 449 509 634 634 406 406 406 406 406 406 295 295 307 307 307 307 306 306 306 306 306 306 8990
Once launched we have durable advantages:
▪ Sticky developer relationships
▪ Regulatory head start (2-3 years)
▪ Risk management network effects
▪ Easy to expand to commercial banking
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Risks & Mitigations:
Risk Plan
1
We can’t get licensed;
significantly less market demand
Sell our software to other banks
2 It takes longer to get license Slow down our burn
3 It takes longer to ship our software Speed up engineering hiring
4 If we can’t find the right people
Work with headhunters and use
contractors, as needed
Thank you
Appendices
A. Background: Past financing, product and progress
B. UK Regulatory Environment
C. US Regulatory Environment
D. Product Roadmap and Use Cases
E. Technology and Architecture
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Appendix A
A. Background: Past financing, product and progress
B. UK Regulatory Environment
C. US Regulatory Environment
D. Product Roadmap and Use Cases
E. Technology and Architecture
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▪ Secure integration with bank middleware
▪ Public APIs tailored to each partner’s unique needs
▪ Self-service developer administration
▪ Up-to-date documentation & SDKs
▪ World-class developer support
▪ Partner & growth engineering
▪ Turnkey app store
We’ve always been focused on API Banking…
by providing the world’s largest banks all the ingredients
for success in API Banking.
Our history
American Banker’s Top
Ten Tech Companies
to Watch
Featured in
$2.7M convertible
note financing
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Background
FINANCE
ACCELERATORS
Fintech Innovation Lab
Selected by fourteen top banks to participate
Mentored by Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, 

Morgan Stanley and UBS
Commerce.Innnovate
Mentored on advanced payments by MasterCard
PRESS
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Current investors include:
Angels include:
Brian McLoughlin
Cory Ondrejka
Paul Buchheit
Josh Abramowitz
Jonathan Abrams
Greg Kidd
Gus Felder
Jay Mandelbaum
Dalton Caldwell
John Wolthuis
Appendix B
A. Background: Past financing, product and progress
B. UK Regulatory Environment
C. US Regulatory Environment
D. Product Roadmap and Use Cases
E. Technology and Architecture
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Easier to start in the United Kingdom
▪ Much friendlier regulatory climate
▪ Political desire for new banks and banking models
▪ New legal pathway to more easily de novo a bank
▪ Specific authorizations to operate our business model
▪ Fewer restrictions on capital structure
Planning to de novo a bank in the United Kingdom:
We have spent the last six months studying 

the regulatory and legal landscape.
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Big opportunity in United Kingdom as first market:
Every startup we met said there was a need for the bank, and that they
would either switch their existing business to our bank or would switch all
future product development to our bank. Given what these existing players
told us about their current usage bills with their banks, we believe we could
easily be profitable on the soft commitments we've already received.
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▪ Improvements to – and streamlining of – the pre-filing system
▪ Reduced capital requirements at authorization
▪ Reduced liquidity requirements for new entrant banks
▪ Simplification and streamlining of application documentation
▪ A reduced minimum realistic time for the application process
of six months (previously two years)
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New Easier Process to Start Banks
Prudential Regulator Authority
▪ Part of Bank of England
▪ Part of “dual” bank authorizations process
▪ Has responsibility for safety and
soundness regulation of U.K. banks
▪ Open to competent business plans
outside traditional banking models
▪ Analogous to the Federal Reserve’s
supervision work in the US
Financial Conduct Authority
▪ Independent agency
▪ Part of “dual” bank authorizations process
▪ Has responsibility for regulating banks in
relation to consumer protection, conduct,
market participation and financial crime
issues
▪ Mash up of SEC, FDIC, and Fincen for a
US analogy
▪ Set up Innovation Hub to guide startups
through agency
Payments Systems Regulatory
▪ Part of the Financial Conduct authority
▪ Standing up on April 1, 2015
▪ Publishing guidance supporting
“challenger” banks
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Three relevant regulators in the UK, all friendly
We met with some ecosystem players like Level39,
Innovate.Finance, the FinTech Innovation Lab, etc. We like the
concentration of community, lobbying power, and knowledge 

that we found, as well as the appetite for the type of
infrastructure we're proposing.
We got the sense, as well, that we could be a active, vocal, 

and potentially powerful member of the community. Several
people said we might be able to influence UK political
discussion given sufficient time and resources: that we could 

be fintech's poster child because we're infrastructure.
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There is a rich financial technology ecosystem
Appendix C
A. Background: Past financing, product and progress
B. UK Regulatory Environment
C. US Regulatory Environment
D. Product Roadmap and Use Cases
E. Technology and Architecture
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1. Why not start a bank in the US?
2. Why not buy a bank in the US?
3. Why not partner with a bank in the US?
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FDIC not granting de novo charters:
Since the financial crisis the FDIC
has approved only two de novo
applications – one for a
development bank in New Haven
and another for an Amish bank.
ONLY
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1. Why not start a bank in the US?
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WHY THE FDIC DISLIKES DE NOVOs
▪ FDIC identified that recent de novo banks had a disproportionate
share of failures and serious safety and soundness problems.
▪ After the crisis, the FDIC tightened its policy on de novo banks
and effectively restricted serious consideration of de novo banks
1. Why not start a bank in the US?
STANDARD TREASURY COULD NOT DE NOVO
▪ We do not believe that the Standard Treasury plans fall within 

the exceptionally narrow parameters that, at this moment in 

time, would cause the FDIC to give serious consideration to 

a de novo application.
▪ Barring a major change in the FDIC’s approach to de novo
charters, which we deem unlikely under the current Chairman, 

we believe it highly improbable that Standard Treasury could
successfully pursue an application for a de novo charter.
▪ Completely auditable and trackable.
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▪ customers
▪ technology
▪ loan book
▪ staff
▪ particular authorizations
▪ regulatory relationships
▪ physical plant
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2. Why not buy a bank in the US?
We’d have to own their
these would be major distractions while we build tech infrastructure
Since the financial crisis, all U.S. federal bank
regulators have increased scrutiny of applications
to acquire banks, particularly applications by
non-banks.
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2. Why not buy a bank in the US?
Non-bank applicants can expect to have to meet standards
applicable to de novo institutions including:
▪ a requirement to operate under a business plan 

approved by the bank’s primary regulator for the first 

seven years of operation
▪ closer supervisory scrutiny
▪ more frequent examinations
▪ operating conditions specific to the particular application,
typically include higher capital standards than required by
otherwise-applicable regulation
▪ the more an application deviates from a 

traditional community-banking model, the greater 

this scrutiny becomes.
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2. Why not buy a bank in the US?
This heightened scrutiny of non-traditional models
in turn gives rise to longer application processing
times and reduced likelihood of success.
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2. Why not buy a bank in the US?
Restrictions on capital sources: 

▪ Many banking regulators in the US have a natural 

skepticism towards private equity and venture capital
investors, who they perceive as having short term 

profit motives.
▪ While this perception is unfair to many such investors,
particularly in the venture capital industry, few banking
regulators understand the sector well enough to make
nuanced distinctions
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2. Why not buy a bank in the US?
Bank holding company: 

▪ There are a complex series of controls that very likely
prevents any non-natural person from owning more than
9.9% of a bank without being subject to registering as a 

bank holding company.
▪ Banking holding companies are regulated by the Federal
Reserve and are subject to an onerous set of reporting, risk
management, and internal financial controls.
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2. Why not buy a bank in the US?
1. Lack of control
2. Bad technology interfaces
3. Aren’t responsive
4. Designed unscalable internal control & risk management
5. Are reluctant to white label
6. Stuck in legacy mindset
7. Bad culture and worse technology culture
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3. Why not partner with a bank?
Appendix D
A. Background: Past financing, product and progress
B. UK Regulatory Environment
C. US Regulatory Environment
D. Product Roadmap and Use Cases
E. Technology and Architecture
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The Amazon Web Services (storage, compute platform) or Uber
(logistics, transportation platform) of banking: 

the high-volume provider of core financial services.
Over time this will include white labeled services like:
PAYMENTS
• Cash payments through companies like ZenPayroll, LendingHome.
• Card payments merchant acquiring through companies like Stripe, WePay, Balanced
Payments
• Card issuing through companies like Card.com, TrueLink Financial
Our product
ACCOUNTS
• Deposits through companies
like Simple, Bee, Zenefits
• Custodial accounts through companies
like WealthFront, Betterment, Sigfig
• Escrow accounts through companies
like Angellist
LENDING
• Real-time mortgage
decisioning for companies
like Trulia
• Warehouse facilities for companies
like Lending Club
$
We are providing banking infrastructure via API to partners
who will use and resell our services at scale.
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Product demo
demo.standardtreasury.com
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1. Commercial Customers (Lever)
1. Open a new account
2. Collect all the information for CIP and KYC
3. Automatically run KYC (and credit) checks
4. Open account with zero dollar
5. Accept a BACS/CHAPS/FPS from another bank
account / investor
6. Rent office space
7. Create a letter of credit
8. Pay corporate rent
9. Send BACS/CHAPS/FPS to particular counterparty
10. Pay for other things (debit cards, checks, 

other payments)
11. Accounting and identity (Xero or direct connections)
12. Bill pay

2. Commercial Customers with Debit Features (Lever+)
1. Accept ACH debits
2. Drawdown wires
3. Wholesale Payments Customers (ZenPayroll)
1. FBO accounts
2. KYC on beneficiaries
3. ACH Debit to corporate
4. ACH Debit at scale to FBO
5. ACH Credit from FBO
6. KYC on counterparties
Example use cases
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4. Wholesale Resellers of Retail Accounts (Bee/Simple)
1. Open retail accounts
2. Information
3. Payments
5. Card Issuance Programs (TrueLink, card.com, Giftly)
6. ISO/PSP and Merchant Acquiring 

(Stripe/WePay/PayPal/Balanced)
7. Custodial accounts for asset managers 

(Betterment/WealthFront/Sigfig)
8. Advanced data and analytics on usage, counterparties,
international accounts
9. Foreign exchange execution, settlement, accounts
10.Private wealth management tools
11.Broker dealer execution, settlement, 

white labeled portals
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Economics by program type
Fixed revenue per program Variable revenue per transaction
Acquiring Minimal set-up fees
Significant revenue per dollar
processed
Issuing
Significant set-up fees and ongoing
program management fees
Significant revenue per card
issued and swipe
Cash
Payments
Minimal set-up fees
Mixed: Significant revenue per real-time
dollar processed, minimal for multi-day
settlement
Custodian
Significant set-up fees and ongoing
program management fees
Little revenue per dollar of AUM
Origination
Significant set-up fees and ongoing
program management fees
Little revenue per origination;
ongoing revenue for servicing
Appendix E
A. Background: Past financing, product and progress
B. UK Regulatory Environment
C. US Regulatory Environment
D. Product Roadmap and Use Cases
E. Technology and Architecture
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Our core banking system is built using an API-first design.
Every operation in the bank is controlled by a secured rest
API, with a micro-services architecture on the backend.
Because we started from scratch, our system is built with
security, reliability, speed, and usability.
Our technology
▪ Payments and Transfers
▪ Authentication and Authorization
▪ Logging and Auditing
▪ Documentation
API
▪ Bank Manager Operations
▪ Online Commercial Banking
▪ Developer Portal
UX Infrastructure
▪ Core ledger
▪ Customer information System
▪ KYC, AML, Fraud detection
Technology Stack
▪ Clojure on JVM
▪ PostgreSQL
▪ Kafka
▪ Storm
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▪ AngularJS
▪ AWS (Beanstalk, RDS, ELB, S3)
OUR SYSTEM
▪ API first
▪ High volume, Reliable, Secure
▪ Completely auditable and trackable
HIGH LEVEL DESIGN
▪ API uses OAuth and JWT to auth every request/response
▪ All synchronous calls are delegated from the API gateway to the
relevant internal micro-services
▪ A large percentage of those calls create events that are asynchronously
handled by our fault tolerant master workflow system.
▪ Each micro service has its own cluster of machines with its own
datastore
▪ There are separate public and private API services. Public for general
consumption, private for services used by the Bank Personnel.
Technical Details
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After building out APIs for core banking systems in the US we
determined that none of the standard offerings met our desire 

to drive the entire bank with a secure API in a highly performant
manner. All of our services and UX are built around the existing API.
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Standard Treasury Series A Pitch Deck

  • 2. Last six years Next six years Trend: the application layer of financial services is exploding 2
  • 3. Behind every fintech application is a wholesale bank: + + + 3
  • 4. Fintech apps are hard and costly because banks have: bad technology bad culture bad technology culture 4
  • 5. We know this problem better than most. The world’s largest banks had asked us to build them APIs. 5
  • 6. 6 But we stopped to build our own wholesale bank: the banking platform to power the fintech app revolution
  • 8. Top Down: Banking revenue $1 Trillion Gross Value: Wholesale banking $259 Billion TAM: Global Startup Wholesale banking $5 Billion Giant market with a focused start 8
  • 9. This is hard… …what it takes: ▪ Great API platform ▪ Great backend infrastructure ▪ Banking license in at least one country (UK) ▪ Global roll out (US and Europe) 9
  • 10. 10 Why now? The timing is right: ▪ Regulatory Changes ▪ Technology Maturity ▪ Rapidly growing market with eager customers
  • 11. Our world class team Chris Dean, 
 VPE Co-Founder, Merced VP, BabyCenter CalTech Physics Mike Clarke: Infrastructure Lead, 
 Disqus EE from Notre Dame Jim Brusstar: Eng Lead, Sidecar Eng Lead, FB Platform BSE in CS from Michigan 11 Dan Kimerling, 
 CEO
 COO of Giftly, 
 Analyst at TechCrunch BA/MA, University 
 of Chicago Zac Townsend, President
 Risk @ Stripe,
 CTO of Newark NJ
 BA, Brown, MPA, NYU Keith Ballinger, 
 Head Architect 
 Co-Creator of .Net; Developer, 
 Fed Reserve, Published 2 software books David Jarvis: Software Engineer CircleCI; Data Scientist, AK BA, University of Chicago
  • 12. Current landscape BIG BANKS UK NEW UK BANKSSMALL BANKS aren't nimble, 
 too much 
 legacy tech bad technology but 
 worse risk management 
 and relationship with 
 the regulators these are all consumer- focused retail banks 12
  • 13. Studied US Regulation Studied UK regulation Completed early legal and regulatory work Met UK Regulators Complete Regulatory Work Public API Developer portal SDKs Core Ledger Authenticate and Authorize Built Product H1'15 Prepare Application Pre-Meetings and Challenge Sessions Consulting Set up UK Subsidiary and Operation Regulation Payment Systems Customer Information System Product Bank CEO Engineers Designers Hiring H2'15 Application Regulatory Assesment Individual Capital Guidance Individual Liquidty Guidance Regulation Product Compliance Engineers Hiring H1'16 Application Goverenance Policies/Procedures IT Review Regulation Product Compliance Engineers Operations Support Hiring Infrastructure Logging/Auditing Online/Mobile Banking Compliance/KYC/AML Debit Issuance Deployment Testing/Launch With $10M, we will get authorized in the UK 13 LAUNCH LAUNCH TO PRESENT
  • 14. 14 Series A Financials Month 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Total Phase 1: Application Phase 2: Authorization Phase 3: Mobilizations Phase 4: Customers Live Current Burn • SF Office 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 240 • Five Engineers 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 1680 • Two Founders 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 408 • Benefits, etc 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 792 New Personnel in UK • Bank CEO 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 420 • Compliance 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 315 • Risk 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 315 • Designer 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 120 • UK Office 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 210 New Personnel in the US • Engineers • Security 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 288 • Product 12 12 12 12 24 24 24 24 24 24 36 36 36 36 36 36 48 48 48 48 48 48 696 • Infrastructure 12 12 12 12 12 12 24 24 24 24 24 24 216 Regulatory Work • Regulatory Advisor 150 150 250 250 350 350 150 150 150 150 150 150 25 25 25 25 25 25 2550 • Legal Work 25 25 25 25 50 50 10 10 10 10 10 10 260 Total 337 337 449 509 634 634 406 406 406 406 406 406 295 295 307 307 307 307 306 306 306 306 306 306 8990
  • 15. Once launched we have durable advantages: ▪ Sticky developer relationships ▪ Regulatory head start (2-3 years) ▪ Risk management network effects ▪ Easy to expand to commercial banking 15
  • 16. 16 Risks & Mitigations: Risk Plan 1 We can’t get licensed; significantly less market demand Sell our software to other banks 2 It takes longer to get license Slow down our burn 3 It takes longer to ship our software Speed up engineering hiring 4 If we can’t find the right people Work with headhunters and use contractors, as needed
  • 18. Appendices A. Background: Past financing, product and progress B. UK Regulatory Environment C. US Regulatory Environment D. Product Roadmap and Use Cases E. Technology and Architecture 18
  • 19. Appendix A A. Background: Past financing, product and progress B. UK Regulatory Environment C. US Regulatory Environment D. Product Roadmap and Use Cases E. Technology and Architecture 19
  • 20. ▪ Secure integration with bank middleware ▪ Public APIs tailored to each partner’s unique needs ▪ Self-service developer administration ▪ Up-to-date documentation & SDKs ▪ World-class developer support ▪ Partner & growth engineering ▪ Turnkey app store We’ve always been focused on API Banking… by providing the world’s largest banks all the ingredients for success in API Banking. Our history
  • 21. American Banker’s Top Ten Tech Companies to Watch Featured in $2.7M convertible note financing 21 Background FINANCE ACCELERATORS Fintech Innovation Lab Selected by fourteen top banks to participate Mentored by Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, 
 Morgan Stanley and UBS Commerce.Innnovate Mentored on advanced payments by MasterCard PRESS
  • 22. 22 Current investors include: Angels include: Brian McLoughlin Cory Ondrejka Paul Buchheit Josh Abramowitz Jonathan Abrams Greg Kidd Gus Felder Jay Mandelbaum Dalton Caldwell John Wolthuis
  • 23. Appendix B A. Background: Past financing, product and progress B. UK Regulatory Environment C. US Regulatory Environment D. Product Roadmap and Use Cases E. Technology and Architecture 23
  • 24. Easier to start in the United Kingdom ▪ Much friendlier regulatory climate ▪ Political desire for new banks and banking models ▪ New legal pathway to more easily de novo a bank ▪ Specific authorizations to operate our business model ▪ Fewer restrictions on capital structure Planning to de novo a bank in the United Kingdom: We have spent the last six months studying 
 the regulatory and legal landscape. 24
  • 25. Big opportunity in United Kingdom as first market: Every startup we met said there was a need for the bank, and that they would either switch their existing business to our bank or would switch all future product development to our bank. Given what these existing players told us about their current usage bills with their banks, we believe we could easily be profitable on the soft commitments we've already received. 25
  • 26. ▪ Improvements to – and streamlining of – the pre-filing system ▪ Reduced capital requirements at authorization ▪ Reduced liquidity requirements for new entrant banks ▪ Simplification and streamlining of application documentation ▪ A reduced minimum realistic time for the application process of six months (previously two years) 26 New Easier Process to Start Banks
  • 27. Prudential Regulator Authority ▪ Part of Bank of England ▪ Part of “dual” bank authorizations process ▪ Has responsibility for safety and soundness regulation of U.K. banks ▪ Open to competent business plans outside traditional banking models ▪ Analogous to the Federal Reserve’s supervision work in the US Financial Conduct Authority ▪ Independent agency ▪ Part of “dual” bank authorizations process ▪ Has responsibility for regulating banks in relation to consumer protection, conduct, market participation and financial crime issues ▪ Mash up of SEC, FDIC, and Fincen for a US analogy ▪ Set up Innovation Hub to guide startups through agency Payments Systems Regulatory ▪ Part of the Financial Conduct authority ▪ Standing up on April 1, 2015 ▪ Publishing guidance supporting “challenger” banks 27 Three relevant regulators in the UK, all friendly
  • 28. We met with some ecosystem players like Level39, Innovate.Finance, the FinTech Innovation Lab, etc. We like the concentration of community, lobbying power, and knowledge 
 that we found, as well as the appetite for the type of infrastructure we're proposing. We got the sense, as well, that we could be a active, vocal, 
 and potentially powerful member of the community. Several people said we might be able to influence UK political discussion given sufficient time and resources: that we could 
 be fintech's poster child because we're infrastructure. 28 There is a rich financial technology ecosystem
  • 29. Appendix C A. Background: Past financing, product and progress B. UK Regulatory Environment C. US Regulatory Environment D. Product Roadmap and Use Cases E. Technology and Architecture 29
  • 30. 1. Why not start a bank in the US? 2. Why not buy a bank in the US? 3. Why not partner with a bank in the US? 30
  • 31. FDIC not granting de novo charters: Since the financial crisis the FDIC has approved only two de novo applications – one for a development bank in New Haven and another for an Amish bank. ONLY 2 1. Why not start a bank in the US? 31
  • 32. WHY THE FDIC DISLIKES DE NOVOs ▪ FDIC identified that recent de novo banks had a disproportionate share of failures and serious safety and soundness problems. ▪ After the crisis, the FDIC tightened its policy on de novo banks and effectively restricted serious consideration of de novo banks 1. Why not start a bank in the US? STANDARD TREASURY COULD NOT DE NOVO ▪ We do not believe that the Standard Treasury plans fall within 
 the exceptionally narrow parameters that, at this moment in 
 time, would cause the FDIC to give serious consideration to 
 a de novo application. ▪ Barring a major change in the FDIC’s approach to de novo charters, which we deem unlikely under the current Chairman, 
 we believe it highly improbable that Standard Treasury could successfully pursue an application for a de novo charter. ▪ Completely auditable and trackable. 32
  • 33. ▪ customers ▪ technology ▪ loan book ▪ staff ▪ particular authorizations ▪ regulatory relationships ▪ physical plant 33 2. Why not buy a bank in the US? We’d have to own their these would be major distractions while we build tech infrastructure
  • 34. Since the financial crisis, all U.S. federal bank regulators have increased scrutiny of applications to acquire banks, particularly applications by non-banks. 34 2. Why not buy a bank in the US?
  • 35. Non-bank applicants can expect to have to meet standards applicable to de novo institutions including: ▪ a requirement to operate under a business plan 
 approved by the bank’s primary regulator for the first 
 seven years of operation ▪ closer supervisory scrutiny ▪ more frequent examinations ▪ operating conditions specific to the particular application, typically include higher capital standards than required by otherwise-applicable regulation ▪ the more an application deviates from a 
 traditional community-banking model, the greater 
 this scrutiny becomes. 35 2. Why not buy a bank in the US?
  • 36. This heightened scrutiny of non-traditional models in turn gives rise to longer application processing times and reduced likelihood of success. 36 2. Why not buy a bank in the US?
  • 37. Restrictions on capital sources: 
 ▪ Many banking regulators in the US have a natural 
 skepticism towards private equity and venture capital investors, who they perceive as having short term 
 profit motives. ▪ While this perception is unfair to many such investors, particularly in the venture capital industry, few banking regulators understand the sector well enough to make nuanced distinctions 37 2. Why not buy a bank in the US?
  • 38. Bank holding company: 
 ▪ There are a complex series of controls that very likely prevents any non-natural person from owning more than 9.9% of a bank without being subject to registering as a 
 bank holding company. ▪ Banking holding companies are regulated by the Federal Reserve and are subject to an onerous set of reporting, risk management, and internal financial controls. 38 2. Why not buy a bank in the US?
  • 39. 1. Lack of control 2. Bad technology interfaces 3. Aren’t responsive 4. Designed unscalable internal control & risk management 5. Are reluctant to white label 6. Stuck in legacy mindset 7. Bad culture and worse technology culture 39 3. Why not partner with a bank?
  • 40. Appendix D A. Background: Past financing, product and progress B. UK Regulatory Environment C. US Regulatory Environment D. Product Roadmap and Use Cases E. Technology and Architecture 40
  • 41. The Amazon Web Services (storage, compute platform) or Uber (logistics, transportation platform) of banking: 
 the high-volume provider of core financial services. Over time this will include white labeled services like: PAYMENTS • Cash payments through companies like ZenPayroll, LendingHome. • Card payments merchant acquiring through companies like Stripe, WePay, Balanced Payments • Card issuing through companies like Card.com, TrueLink Financial Our product ACCOUNTS • Deposits through companies like Simple, Bee, Zenefits • Custodial accounts through companies like WealthFront, Betterment, Sigfig • Escrow accounts through companies like Angellist LENDING • Real-time mortgage decisioning for companies like Trulia • Warehouse facilities for companies like Lending Club $ We are providing banking infrastructure via API to partners who will use and resell our services at scale. 41
  • 43. 1. Commercial Customers (Lever) 1. Open a new account 2. Collect all the information for CIP and KYC 3. Automatically run KYC (and credit) checks 4. Open account with zero dollar 5. Accept a BACS/CHAPS/FPS from another bank account / investor 6. Rent office space 7. Create a letter of credit 8. Pay corporate rent 9. Send BACS/CHAPS/FPS to particular counterparty 10. Pay for other things (debit cards, checks, 
 other payments) 11. Accounting and identity (Xero or direct connections) 12. Bill pay
 2. Commercial Customers with Debit Features (Lever+) 1. Accept ACH debits 2. Drawdown wires 3. Wholesale Payments Customers (ZenPayroll) 1. FBO accounts 2. KYC on beneficiaries 3. ACH Debit to corporate 4. ACH Debit at scale to FBO 5. ACH Credit from FBO 6. KYC on counterparties Example use cases 43 4. Wholesale Resellers of Retail Accounts (Bee/Simple) 1. Open retail accounts 2. Information 3. Payments 5. Card Issuance Programs (TrueLink, card.com, Giftly) 6. ISO/PSP and Merchant Acquiring 
 (Stripe/WePay/PayPal/Balanced) 7. Custodial accounts for asset managers 
 (Betterment/WealthFront/Sigfig) 8. Advanced data and analytics on usage, counterparties, international accounts 9. Foreign exchange execution, settlement, accounts 10.Private wealth management tools 11.Broker dealer execution, settlement, 
 white labeled portals
  • 44. 44 Economics by program type Fixed revenue per program Variable revenue per transaction Acquiring Minimal set-up fees Significant revenue per dollar processed Issuing Significant set-up fees and ongoing program management fees Significant revenue per card issued and swipe Cash Payments Minimal set-up fees Mixed: Significant revenue per real-time dollar processed, minimal for multi-day settlement Custodian Significant set-up fees and ongoing program management fees Little revenue per dollar of AUM Origination Significant set-up fees and ongoing program management fees Little revenue per origination; ongoing revenue for servicing
  • 45. Appendix E A. Background: Past financing, product and progress B. UK Regulatory Environment C. US Regulatory Environment D. Product Roadmap and Use Cases E. Technology and Architecture 45
  • 46. Our core banking system is built using an API-first design. Every operation in the bank is controlled by a secured rest API, with a micro-services architecture on the backend. Because we started from scratch, our system is built with security, reliability, speed, and usability. Our technology ▪ Payments and Transfers ▪ Authentication and Authorization ▪ Logging and Auditing ▪ Documentation API ▪ Bank Manager Operations ▪ Online Commercial Banking ▪ Developer Portal UX Infrastructure ▪ Core ledger ▪ Customer information System ▪ KYC, AML, Fraud detection Technology Stack ▪ Clojure on JVM ▪ PostgreSQL ▪ Kafka ▪ Storm 46 ▪ AngularJS ▪ AWS (Beanstalk, RDS, ELB, S3)
  • 47. OUR SYSTEM ▪ API first ▪ High volume, Reliable, Secure ▪ Completely auditable and trackable HIGH LEVEL DESIGN ▪ API uses OAuth and JWT to auth every request/response ▪ All synchronous calls are delegated from the API gateway to the relevant internal micro-services ▪ A large percentage of those calls create events that are asynchronously handled by our fault tolerant master workflow system. ▪ Each micro service has its own cluster of machines with its own datastore ▪ There are separate public and private API services. Public for general consumption, private for services used by the Bank Personnel. Technical Details 47 After building out APIs for core banking systems in the US we determined that none of the standard offerings met our desire 
 to drive the entire bank with a secure API in a highly performant manner. All of our services and UX are built around the existing API.