What most agents don’t know is that there is a whole world of high-risk, high-margin merchants out there, looking for help to find a ‘risk-friendly’ bank. On high risk deals, its typical to see 100-200bps (1-2%) of margin on a high risk deal. For the math geeks out there, that’s 70-180bps more than a low risk deal… in other words, high risk deals can be 3-10 times more profitable than low risk deals.