Banking is shifting from generic accounts to vertical financial products, with future neobanks designed for creators, merchants, immigrants, traders, freelancers, and industry-specific needs

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Visa already has 130+ stablecoin-linked card programs in 50+ countries and its settlement pilot now spans nine chains, so the vertical-neobank stack is moving from pitch deck to distribution war. The winners won't be the apps with the slickest USDC card; they'll be the ones that own proprietary workflow data like creator invoices, merchant cashflow, immigrant remittance corridors, and can price credit/risk better than a generic sponsor-bank wrapper. CAC becomes the choke point once wallets, cards, KYC and stablecoin routing are commodity, which is why the best “neobanks” may look more like vertical SaaS or Telegram agents than Revolut clones.

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