Celtic Bank
US · Salt Lake City, Utah · FDIC (Utah Industrial Bank)
Celtic Bank is a Bank based in US (Salt Lake City, Utah), regulated by FDIC (Utah Industrial Bank). The institution operates an active Banking-as-a-Service program, launched in 2008.
Celtic Bank supports the following products and services: Lending, Payments. The bank serves customers across US.
Notable fintech partners include Square Capital, OnDeck, BlueVine, Deserve, Stripe Capital.
- Products Supported
- LendingPayments
- Geographies Served
- US
- Charter / Regulator
- FDIC (Utah Industrial Bank)
- API Standards
- REST API, Proprietary
- Minimum Deal Size
- Not publicly disclosed
- Year Program Launched
- 2008
Square Capital, OnDeck, BlueVine, Deserve, Stripe Capital
None confirmed active
7B assets. One of earliest fintech-bank SMB lending partnerships (Kabbage 2008). Top SBA lender.
Long-standing leader in SMB fintech lending. No consent order.
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