“Can a legacy bank-tech incumbent re-platform itself as the embedded-finance backbone for its bank customers before fintech-native infrastructure providers disintermediate it?”
FIS is a legacy core-banking and capital markets technology provider (Fidelity National Information Services) that has progressively pivoted toward embedded finance for banks. It has assembled the stack through partnerships (Jifiti for embedded lending, Modulr for the Money Movement Hub) and acquisitions (Railz for accounting data, Numerated for real-time lending). After the Worldpay merger and subsequent spin-off, FIS has refocused on bank technology and is positioning Money Movement Hub plus embedded lending as its modern embedded-finance offer to its bank customer base.
FIS discloses FIS (in-house) as its banking provider, according to the Embedded Finance Index 2026.
FIS does not disclose a bank charter of its own; its banking services are provided through FIS (in-house).
FIS processes payments through FIS payment processing (in-house).
FIS's cards are issued through FIS (in-house).
FIS uses Modulr for FX and cross-border payouts.
FIS integrates with Railz financial data network.
The Embedded Finance Index 2026 maps 9 layers in FIS's stack: Payments / PSP (FIS payment processing (in-house)); Banking / BaaS (FIS (in-house)); Card issuing (FIS (in-house)); Lending (FIS Real-Time Lending (powered by Numerated) and FIS + Jifiti embedded lending (BNPL, instalment loans, lines of credit, virtual cards, business financing)); Unified APIs (Railz (in-house, acquired)); FX & payouts (Modulr); Accounting (Railz financial data network); Spend / AP (FIS Integrated Payables (in-house)); Tax (FIS Tax Information Reporting Suite (in-house)).
FIS is founded in 1968 and headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, United States.
FIS's acquisitions include Global Payments Issuer Solutions (TSYS) (2026), Bond Financial Technologies (2023), Payrix (2022), Worldpay (2019), SunGard (2015), Metavante Technologies (2009), eFunds (2007) and Certegy (2006).
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