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Companies like Mercury, Flex, and Novo rely on Lithic's developer-friendly APIs, direct network connections, and flawless reconciliation to launch and scale card programs in weeks, not years.\nWe're building a future where access to better financial products materially improves people's lives, free from the constraints of 30-year-old mainframes and legacy processors. 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