How can a modern card issuing platform improve transaction performance and scalability?

  • Cloud modernization: Streamline operations and manage card programs quickly and intelligently with cloud-native capabilities and flexible APIs.
  • Scalable architecture: Enable scalable growth, faster innovation, rapid product deployment and real-time data access through microservices and extensible plug-ins.
  • Intelligent systems: Improve transaction approvals and cardholder experiences with real-time authorization and intelligent routing.
  • Connected platform: Simplify onboarding, servicing, fraud management and reporting through a connected ecosystem.

How can API-first card issuing infrastructure accelerate innovation for banks and fintechs?

  • API infrastructure: Accelerate time to market and simplify operations with an API-first platform strategy powered by intelligent, orchestrated APIs.
  • Flexible payments: Adapt quickly to changing customer expectations and market demands with flexible, scalable payment capabilities.
  • Open integration: Integrate payment functionality using open APIs and developer tools to support modern fintech card issuing and embedded finance experiences.
  • Omnichannel delivery: Deliver omnichannel experiences across mobile, web and digital wallets with real-time data access and configurable workflows for faster decision-making.

How can fraud management for card issuers strengthen security without increasing friction?

  • Real-time detection: Detect suspicious activity and prevent fraud by analyzing and scoring transactions in real time.
  • Smarter approvals: Reduce false declines with adaptive machine learning models.
  • Behavior-based insights: Strengthen authentication and improve authorization accuracy using behavior analytics and transaction insights.
  • Workflow automation: Automate fraud detection and case management to reduce costs, minimize losses and build trust.

How can a commercial card platform improve operational efficiency and control?

  • Automated payments: Enable automated payments across scheduled and recurring transactions to simplify and improve spending control.
  • Virtual reconciliation: Support virtual payment acceptance and reconciliation across purchasing, travel and virtual card programs.
  • Mobile-first experiences: Extend mobile experiences for cardholders and administrators, including receipt capture, approval workflows and card controls.
  • Configurable oversight: Improve administrator oversight with configurable controls and analytics.
  • Connected workflows: Streamline expense management through API-connected automation and workflows.

How does digital card issuance improve customer engagement and payment experiences?

  • Account growth: Improve activation, engagement and top-of-wallet usage to drive higher spending, greater satisfaction and improved retention.
  • Instant provisioning: Deliver secure, real-time card creation for commercial cardholders while enabling instant provisioning for digital wallets and mobile payments.
  • Data insights: Access real-time alerts, manage spending controls and gain transaction insights while streamlining onboarding, account management and self-service experiences.

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Enhanced scalability

Drive business growth with reliable infrastructure and flexible APIs that boost efficiency across all your card programs.

Fraud management

Safeguard revenue and client trust with AI-powered protection that streamlines approvals and delivers a reliable, secure payment experience.

Expense control

Gain better control over business spending with instant reporting, automated approvals and receipt capture tailored to your needs.

Simplified workflows

Free your team to focus on growth by streamlining onboarding, servicing and fraud management in one platform.

Card issuing and processing built for scale

Launch and manage credit and debit card programs quickly and at scale. Built on an API-first, cloud-native architecture with real-time data access, FIS® Total Issuing™ Solutions provides the flexibility to expand card offerings, strengthen fraud prevention, streamline operations and keep cardholders engaged throughout the customer lifecycle.
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Centralize issuing with a single payments stack

Designed to help issuers move faster with more control, FIS® Total Issuing™ TS2 is an end-to-end platform for consumer and commercial card payments. Its flexible, API-first architecture connects onboarding, servicing, authorizations, risk and fraud management, digital experiences, loyalty, communications and scheme-agnostic, real-time virtual card issuance. Advanced data streams and portfolio analytics also deliver the visibility needed to modernize payments and accelerate time to market.

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PRIME in the Cloud

Streamline international payment processing with an end-to-end issuer payment stack

FIS® Total Issuing™ PRIME in the Cloud provides issuers with a powerful API-centric and cloud-native platform for growth, supporting consumer credit, debit, unlimited currency prepaid and commercial cards with a single customer view. It unlocks digital enablement through virtual cards, wallets and tokenized payments and powers innovation with API-driven integration and secure, real-time data insights. Expand possibilities with customer-centric rewards, installments and buy now, pay later, carbon footprint tracking, AI-boosted fraud prevention and optional PRIME acquirer processing capabilities.

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Simplify fraud and dispute resolution workflows

The Fraud & Disputes module of FIS® Total Issuing™ Customer Service helps teams identify fraud, capture claims and move cases through recovery and chargeback resolution in one connected experience. Configurable workflows, scripted guidance and advanced case management keep agents aligned to your policies and card brand requirements, helping reduce manual tasks, prevent missed deadlines and improve first-contact resolution.

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Transaction Defense

Prevent fraud without disrupting genuine spending

FIS® Transaction Defense evaluates authorizations in real time with cardholder behavior analytics and historical transaction patterns. This fraud prevention and detection platform combines enriched data, machine learning scores and flexible, client-defined rules to distinguish genuine purchases from suspicious activity across channels, helping reduce false declines and operational costs.

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Foresight Score

Reduce losses and false positives with real-time fraud scoring

Total Issuingâ„¢ Foresight Score helps identify suspicious activity as it happens by profiling cardholders and merchants with real-time authorization data. This machine learning and behavioral analytics fraud scoring solution continually self-learns and is trained on each issuer's portfolio, enabling issuers to approve more genuine transactions, stop fraud and reduce losses, false positives and alert management costs.

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Advanced Authentication

Reduce fraud while minimizing authentication friction

Total Issuing™ Advanced Authentication uses AI, machine learning and real-time cardholder touchpoint data to verify identities and validate transactions across channels. Backed by one of the largest in-house data stores of operational interactions, PII and transaction data – including cross-issuer and cross-border insights – this API-driven, microservice-based solution helps issuers reduce identity, CNP and account takeover fraud while minimizing false positives and supporting stronger customer authentication compliance.

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TS2 Digital Experiences APIs

Enable faster cardholder self-service experiences

FIS® Total Issuing™ TS2 Digital Experiences APIs enables faster delivery of new digital capabilities by simplifying how experiences are delivered across channels. Cardholders gain secure, convenient self-service to start tasks in one place, pause and resume without repeating steps or contacting support. Consistent experiences extend across consumer and commercial portfolios through shared rules and workflows that apply the same decisions and policies everywhere.

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PRIME Digital Enablement APIs

Empower API-driven innovation and secure, real-time collaboration

FIS® Total Issuing™ PRIME Digital Enablement APIs delivers over 550 essential and orchestrated REST APIs, empowering financial institutions, fintechs and partners to build faster, collaborate smarter and launch new products and services with confidence. Designed for API-driven innovation, it simplifies integration and enables evolving digital customer journeys and new ways to pay with PRIME Open APIs.

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Premium Payback

Turn rewards into real-time buying power at checkout

FIS® Premium Payback enables cardholders to redeem points or cash back as payment tender at the point of purchase – online, in store and across supported wallets and digital channels – through a simple checkout prompt. API-driven POS messaging and issuer connectivity retrieve real-time offers and value details to apply rewards instantly, creating a more seamless pay-with-points experience that boosts engagement, drives spending and keeps cards top of wallet.

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Simplify organizational spending and controls

Total Issuingâ„¢ CentreSuite provides the insights, access and controls needed to manage organizational spending across purchasing and travel programs. Cardholders, managers and administrators gain real-time visibility and control through web, mobile and API channels while streamlining receipt capture, expense reporting and approvals through a modern, scalable experience that improves compliance.

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FAQ

What is a card issuing platform?

Card issuing platforms enable banks and fintechs to launch, manage and process credit, debit and prepaid card programs.

How does issuer processing work?

Issuer processing manages transaction authorization, servicing, fraud prevention and payment operations across credit, debit and prepaid card programs.

How does API-first card issuing improve payment modernization?

API-first card issuing simplifies integration, accelerates product launches and enables flexible digital payment experiences.

What is digital card issuance?

Digital card issuance enables issuers to instantly provision cards into digital wallets and payment applications for immediate use.

How does a virtual card issuance platform work?

Virtual card issuance platforms enable real-time, secure creation of digital card credentials to support commercial payments, manage expenses and process supplier transactions.

What capabilities are important for fintech card issuing?

Modern fintech card issuing requires scalable APIs, real-time processing, fraud prevention, digital wallet support and flexible integration capabilities.

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