Eye on Cards: Citi’s Kard Acquisition; Grandstand’s High-Roller Debit Card; Lithic’s Tie With Monavate

# Eye on Cards: Citi’s Kard Acquisition; Grandstand’s High-Roller Debit Card; Lithic’s Tie With Monavate

> Evidence tier: B1
> Evidence type: Independent payments trade news column based on attributed company statements
> Source: [Digital Transactions](https://www.digitaltransactions.net/eye-on-cards-citis-kard-acquisition-grandstands-high-roller-debit-card-lithics-tie-with-monavate)
> Published: 2026-08-14
> Captured: 2026-08-15T01:38:33.634Z

## Source summary

Digital Transactions reports that card-issuing processor Lithic and regulated program manager Monavate formed a partnership intended to give companies one route to build and scale fiat- and digital-currency card programs. Lithic provides direct network connectivity and authorization technology for debit, prepaid, charge and credit accounts, while Monavate provides program-management capabilities. The same news column also covers Citi's Kard acquisition and Grandstand's high-roller debit card.

## Why it matters

The Lithic-Monavate arrangement could reduce the number of separate vendors needed to launch a card program across processing, authorization and program management, including programs that bridge digital assets to card acceptance. The report confirms the partnership but does not identify launch countries, live clients, supported assets or networks, regulatory passporting, pricing, transaction volume, settlement performance or achieved implementation savings.

## Key numbers

No independently checkable key number was extracted from this report.

## Topics and entities

- Industry lane: Payment infrastructure
- Entities: Lithic / Monavate
- Payment infrastructure
- Cross-border payments
- Web3 payments

## Evidence and credibility note

Independent Digital Transactions news column based on attributed company statements. The partnership and stated division of capabilities are reported; launch scope, adoption and performance are not independently verified.

Date evidence: Automatically verified from JSON-LD datePublished: 2026-08-14T10:06:51-05:00

## First-party corroboration

No directly corresponding A1 company announcement is currently linked.

## Original-source traceback

[Open the original Digital Transactions report](https://www.digitaltransactions.net/eye-on-cards-citis-kard-acquisition-grandstands-high-roller-debit-card-lithics-tie-with-monavate)

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