Stewards Partners With Rain to Develop Business Card Providing Small Businesses Recurring Access to Capital
Key Highlights
- ➤Stewards and Rain are developing a business card for recurring access to approved capital
- ➤Card expected for qualified customers in early Q1 2027, pending integration and approvals
- ➤Stewards and partners facilitated more than $153 million to over 10,000 small businesses since 2020
- ➤Rain will issue and manage cards while Stewards retains underwriting, financing and customer relationships
- ➤Dolomite is expected to provide ledger and connectivity infrastructure for the platform
Expert Statements
Shaun Quin, President and CEO of Stewards
“We’ve spent years building relationships with small-business owners around their need for capital. The opportunity now is to make that relationship more recurring. Rather than starting a new financing transaction every time a customer needs capital, we’re building toward an experience where qualified customers can access available capital when they need it and use the card to put that capital to work.”
Vaughan Korte, Chief Operating Officer of Stewards
“What we’re building is about giving small-business owners more flexibility in how they access and use capital. Rather than treating every need for capital as a new transaction, the goal is to create a more connected experience where qualified customers can have recurring access to capital and use it when the business actually needs it. The technology behind that experience may be sophisticated, but for the customer, it will feel incredibly simple and natural.”
Shaun Quin, President and CEO of Stewards
“Rain brings sophisticated card and payments infrastructure to what we’re building. Our focus is on combining that infrastructure with the customer relationships, underwriting and capital capabilities we already have at Stewards. The result is intended to be a much more connected relationship with the businesses we serve.”
Vaughan Korte, Chief Operating Officer of Stewards
“The program isn’t intended to be another standalone product. It’s being designed as another way for qualified customers to access the Stewards capital relationship they already have. That gives us an opportunity to reduce friction for the customer while creating a deeper and more recurring relationship between Stewards and the businesses we serve.”
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Oct. 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Stewards Inc. (Nasdaq: SWRD) (“Stewards” or the “Company”), a diversified financial platform spanning private credit, real assets and digital infrastructure, today announced a partnership with Rain, a global stablecoin-powered payments platform, to develop a Stewards-branded business card designed to enable a new way to access and deploy approved capital.
This partnership will combine Stewards’ existing small-business financing platform with Rain’s stablecoin-based card issuing and payments infrastructure. Stewards will remain responsible for its customer relationships, underwriting, financing decisions and approvals, while Rain will issue and manage the cards and settlement process.
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