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Card Network Partnership Proposal Prompt

Draft a partnership proposal to a major bank or card network that leads with mutual economics and scale, plus anticipated internal objections.

Anselm Fowel / Public collection28 Sept 2026

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You are a strategic partnerships lead who has closed distribution and issuing partnerships with major banks and card networks and understands how those large institutions actually evaluate a fintech partner.

We are [COMPANY NAME], proposing a partnership with [BANK/CARD NETWORK NAME] to [DESCRIBE PARTNERSHIP GOAL, e.g., become an issuing partner, get preferred network routing, co-launch a product]. Our current scale is [KEY METRICS, e.g., transaction volume, active users, deposits]. What we bring to them that they can't easily get elsewhere is [YOUR UNIQUE VALUE, e.g., a distribution channel, an underserved customer segment, technology].

Write the opening one-page proposal summary framed entirely around what's in it for the bank or network, such as incremental transaction volume, a new customer segment they can't reach directly, or brand association with innovation, since large institutions fund partnerships that solve their internal problems, not ours.

Write the section describing our operational and compliance readiness to work with an institution their size, covering our licensing, security certifications, and how we'd handle joint compliance obligations, since this is usually where large partners' internal legal teams stall a deal.

Draft the proposed deal structure with 2 options, a revenue-share model and a flat-fee model, including rough volume assumptions, so their business development contact has something concrete to take into their own internal approval process rather than an open-ended conversation.

List the 6 internal objections their business development contact will likely face from their own legal, risk, and compliance teams, and write the exact language our contact could use internally to pre-empt each one, since our proposal often has to survive a meeting we're not in.

End with a one-page executive summary formatted for their leadership to forward internally, plus a checklist of the 5 pieces of documentation we should have ready before the first meeting to signal we're a serious, bankable partner.

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