What a year!
As we wrap up 2025, the Marqeta team is taking a collective breath after one of our most action-packed years to date. From product launches to new leadership, acquisitions, research, events, and enough branded T-shirts to start a small boutique store, we’ve been busy.
Here are the highlights from a year we won’t soon forget.
Mike Milotich became our CEO
A huge moment for us: Mike officially stepped in as our CEO, having been in an interim role.
His focus on execution, customer value, and global scale is already steering Marqeta’s exciting next chapter.
His focus on execution, customer value, and global scale is already steering Marqeta’s exciting next chapter.
Klarna + Visa Flexible Credential + Marqeta = a global milestone
Together with Klarna and Visa, we supported one of Europe’s largest flexible-payment expansions: Klarna’s innovative new debit card rolled out across fifteen new European markets, following success in the U.S., powered by Visa Flexible Credential™ and Marqeta’s global issuing platform.
One card that adapts across debit, credit, and installments? That’s the kind of innovation we love to help bring to the world.
We welcomed TransactPay into the Marqeta family
This year we acquired TransactPay, strengthening our European footprint and expanding our regulatory and BIN sponsorship capabilities.
More coverage. More flexibility. More regions for customers to build in. A game-changing addition that we are excited to share more about in 2026.
Our State of Payments report leveled up
We launched our biggest, richest State of Payments report yet, covering consumer AND SME trends, market shifts, emerging opportunities, and what’s shaping the future of payments across the US and Europe.
If you read it, shared it, or quoted it, we thank you.
We kept the content flowing
Our marketing team stayed busy, publishing:
- Customer case studies
- Our brand campaign, reminding everyone to choose “AND”, not “or”.
- The State of Payments report
- Our ebook on the future of payouts and disbursements
- And enough blogs to fill a fintech library
If you managed to keep up, well done!
API Chronicles rolled on
We continued our API Chronicles livestream series, diving deeper into real-world payment challenges and solutions. This year, we explored a wide range of topics, including:
- How businesses are leveraging cards for payouts and disbursements
- How trading and wealth platforms are integrating card programs to deliver faster, more engaging customer experiences
Huge thanks to everyone who shared their expertise as a guest and those who joined us live to grill said experts!
And we hit the road
This year, we showed up at the industry’s biggest gatherings, including:
- Money20/20 US
- Money20/20 Europe
- Dreamforce
- FTT Festival
- eTail
- FIBE
- And a long list of network events across the US and Europe!
We also hosted our own ‘Embedded Edge’ events in London, San Francisco and New York, inviting special guests to experience Marqeta’s unique blend of industry insights and memorable experiences.
If you joined us for a drink, swung by our booth, said hello, grabbed swag, or joined a session, thank you so much.
(And yes, the Payments Nerd T-shirts will be back next year.)
We even fed the fintech masses at Dreamforce
Dreamforce is its own ecosystem, and we embraced it this year by keeping attendees fueled and happy. Food + fintech insights = a winning combo.
And we reminded everyone: choose AND
Our brand message this year was simple: choose AND, not or.
Stability and flexibility
Scale and agility
Because with Marqeta, you really can have it all.
Here’s to 2026
So that was 2025: new leadership, expanded capabilities, fresh research, and a community that keeps showing up with innovation and ambition.
To our customers, partners, speakers, collaborators, and everyone who gave us their time and expertise this year: thank you.
Here’s to building more, dreaming bigger, and choosing AND in 2026.
Happy holidays from Team Marqeta!