Tally Forum: CP re: Railsr9 Mar 2023 16:24
CP response regarding the current Railsr issues, in response to a poster posting the article. This 2as from 3 days ago.
'…City watchdog on alert for failure of fintech Railsr... '
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Hi xxxxxxxxx, we became aware of this article on the evening it went out, the 28th of Feb (the evening after our Feb shareholders Q&A). When we first went live with the Tally App mid-2019, we relied on Railsbank to run our tally ledgers, E-Money IBAN accounts, to connect with the payment rails between bank accounts eg UK FasterPayments, and the whole debit cards vertical (processor, issuer, manufacturer).
TECO (short for Tally Ecosystem) is designed to be agnostic to the BaaS (Banking-as-a-Service) provider as well as agnostic to the cards processor and the cards issuer. With TECO implemented to the extent it is, we have been running all of the Tally ledgers for some time (that is the balances customers hold in tally and movements in those balances as they save, spend and transfer tally), and this month we will have finished the integration of our new cards vertical (and Railsbank’s involvement in Tally debit cards will cease). This transition was part of our ongoing development and contingency planning for the Tally Monetary System. And on the IBAN issuance and BaaS that we continue to run through Railsbank, we have contingency plans in place. So we are prepared and we are monitoring the situation.
Regarding Tally Central Ltd’s shareholding in Railsbank, we had downgraded the valuation of our remaining Railsbank shares from £3m to £2.3m in our most recent audited accounts, based on their funding round last year. I can’t opine yet on what value they may be in this years audited accounts ending 30 June 2023 but I expect it will be adjusted again.
Hope this information helps and I look forward to answering any questions you may have in this month’s Q&A. We should have further details by then. Regards, Cameron