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A little more ambition can help fight climate change

30 November, 2023

More Ambition needed by Multilateral Development Banks: Why Dr. Sultan Al Jaber has called on MDBs in his role of COP28 President. 'I have three asks for you, MDBs must…

Not one but two award wins!

28 November, 2023

SaaScada are thrilled to announce that we have won both Most Innovative Digital Wallets Deployment: Most Impactful Project and NeoChallenger Bank Awards 2023: Regional Winner in Europe with Allica Bank at the…

ESG Culture in Finance

14 November, 2023

In this FinTech Times article, Steve Round joined other industry leaders to talk about their take on the changing ESG landscape. Harnessing technology can help financial institutions make ESG central to…

Achieving net-zero: A fintech priority

2 November, 2023

Financial inclusion has been identified as an enabler for 7 of the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals. According to The World Bank, financial inclusion is a key enabler to reducing poverty and boosting…

2024 Fintech Predictions – Financial IT

30 October, 2023 / Jody Roblin

It's that time of year again, when the media seek out industry experts to give their predictions for 2024. Nelson Wootton and Steve Round shared their predictions with Financial IT.

MoneyLIVE Nordic

23 October, 2023

Fresh from their Seamless adventures in Berlin our team headed to MoneyLive Nordic in Copenhagen. Nelson joined Peter Nordgaard and John Skov for a panel discussion about Enabling Agile Innovation.

SeamlessEU in Berlin

17 October, 2023

The team were at SeamlessEU in Berlin in October. Steve took to the stage to challenge the Financial Services Community to do more to drive financial inclusivity and create positive…

Events, Podcast

Nelson talks with Bryan Carroll on the New Era Fintech podcast

16 October, 2023

Nelson and Bryan talk about all things core banking. If you're interested in core banking - the stuff that underpins the whole banking experience - and especially, next-generation cores, then…

Using cloud-native architecture to do things differently

15 October, 2023

Nelson explains how harnessing the very latest cloud-native architecture has enabled SaaScada to deliver a NextGeneration core banking solution. Watch his video for more...

Using technology to support neurodivergent people can help everyone

13 October, 2023

Guest Author - James Murphy, Founder of StoryX and a European Leader of Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project. This month is Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) awareness month, so it…

How can banks support customers through the cost of living crisis

5 October, 2023 / Jody Roblin

In this video Steve looks at the impact of rising interest rates and how banks can utilise data to help their customers. Despite a wealth of data being available within…

News, Press Release

SaaScada receives funding from TX Ventures to accelerate growth

4 October, 2023 / Jody Roblin

SaaScada, the data-driven core banking platform, is delighted to announce a significant investment from TX Ventures, an early-stage Swiss-based Fintech VC investing in the next generation of Finance. Spurred by…

We’re finalists – Banking Tech Awards 2023

3 October, 2023

We're rather excited to be a finalist for Best Challenger Core Banking System at the Fintech Futures Banking Tech Awards 2023. It's also great to see some of our lovely…

The power of data in payments

28 September, 2023

Having created SaaScada's data-driven core banking platform, it is hardly surprising that Nelson Wootton likes a deep dive into the power of data! Thanks to The Payments Association for giving…

Choosing the right core banking platform

27 September, 2023 / Jody Roblin

Core banking systems can easily be considered the boring bit of banking, yet it is the core system that has the power to enable – or constrain – the growth…

Working with new entrants to overcome challenges

14 September, 2023

We work closely with our customers to help them work through the regulatory framework in their jurisdiction. Our Founder and CEO, Nelson Wootton, explains more about how SaaScada can help.

Using cloud technology to supercharge core banking

7 September, 2023

CTO, Paul Payne, looks at how SaaScada has harnessed advances in cloud technology to supercharge core banking technology. The original cloud-based banking systems were built on more traditional frameworks but…

Challenges for legacy banks competing with new entrants

29 August, 2023

Co-Founder and CEO, Nelson Wootton looks at the challenges legacy banks face when competing with new entrants. SaaScada can help legacy banks to speed innovation through either co-existence for new…

Doing things differently – faster, cost-effective product configuration

23 August, 2023

Our CTO, Paul explains why SaaScada did away with the concept of product modules. Our approach removes the cost and time constraints to smooth the path to innovation.

Redefining core banking

18 August, 2023

Paul takes a look at how far things have come since the first wave of core banking solutions were built. Cloud-native providers like SaaScada have leveraged all the benefits of…

Fintechs & lenders can provide support in challenging times

Steve Round joins other industry experts in this recent The Fintech Times article to highlight the role banks and lenders play in helping consumers and businesses through increasingly challenging times. https://thefintechtimes.com/fintechs-respond-as-bank-of-england-increases-interest-rates/

The Consumer Duty deadline arrives

The FCA's Consumer Duty has finally come into force. In this FinTech Futures article, Steve Round joins other industry experts to talk about what that means for the financial industry. Consumer Duty…

Let’s not forget the S in ESG

27 July, 2023 / Steve Round

Surprisingly for me, I feel qualified to talk about this given my recent background which is: 7 years as Chair Ecology Building Society – building a greener society. 10 years…

Regulation and ESG

With the new sustainability disclosure requirements (SDRs) set to be introduced in the UK, asset managers will soon have much clearer definitions and guidelines for the measurement of ESG performance.…

Data: the silver bullet that hits regulatory moving targets

It is essential for regulations to adapt to protect consumers but it is forcing banks to juggle the ever-increasing pace of regulatory change with their ambition to deliver innovation for…

Is your core cloud-native or just relocated legacy tech?

13 July, 2023 / Jody Roblin

Once upon a time, not too long ago, financial institutions used to have secret rooms behind lock and key where the servers dwelled. As it was usually the only properly…

Case Study, Insight

Leveraging technology for quick business wins and great customer outcomes.

4 July, 2023 / Jody Roblin

Interest rates have been at a historic low for the last decade and unsurprisingly consumers and businesses have taken the opportunity to leverage this cheap credit to buy property, travel…

To unleash the power of next-generation fintech, FIs must adopt next-generation operational models.

3 July, 2023 / Jody Roblin

Successful businesses know that success relies on putting the customer at the centre of everything they do, but sometimes this aim gets lost in the day-to-day running of the business.…

Making moves in the financial space

Lav Odorovic, Co-founder and CEO at Relio, speaks to Intelligent Fin.tech about why the company chose SaaScada to help build its digital payment account offering, as well as SaaScada’s open…

FinTech50 winners 2023

SaaScada is proud to appear in the Fintech 50. Read more...

Auditing should not be seen as regulatory box ticking

In this recent article from Raconteur Nelson talks about the importance of treating auditors are trusted business partners. Read more...

AI is supercharging insight – but can your data keep up?

9 June, 2023 / Jody Roblin

AI is being discussed by everyone in the tech world right now. With everything from coding, to copywriting, to photography and data visualisations, AI can often process in mere seconds…

Steve weighs in on the scourge of greenwashing

This recent article in Net Zero Professional looks at how the race to net zero is leading to calls for greater accountability for FS firm's environmental policies. Read more..

Steve argues that banks can no longer cherry-pick their sustainability credentials

https://thefintechtimes.com/european-banks-urged-to-seize-commercial-advantage-esg-climate-innovation/

Steve shares his thoughts on greenwashing with Retail Banker International

Retail Banker International report on the recent announcement: The European Banking Authority, European Securities and Markets Authority and European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority are agreed on greenwashing. Click on…

Insight, Podcast

Steve talks to IBSi’s Robin Amlot

In this podcast with Robin Amlôt, Steve Round talks about the importance of banks putting sustainability at the heart of their activities. Both in terms of risk and opportunities! To do…

In this recent article in Finextra, Steve Round looks at the role financial services can play in levelling up. Given his history with the Big Issue Foundation's Change Account and his…

Tackling the scourge of greenwashing

Our very own co-founder, Steve Round, features alongside other industry experts in The Banker's recent article on tackling greenwashing. With the world’s first climate lawsuit against a commercial bank being…

Biggest Challenges faced by compliance teams

🚀Nelson Wootton, discusses the need for a 360-degree view of the customer in this recent article in The Fintech Times. Read on for more... Industry Experts Reveal Solutions to the…

High time for banks to rethink how they support customers

An interesting article in FinTech Magazine from our very own Steve Round looks at the responsibility of financial institutions to take steps to deliver financial inclusivity and address financial vulnerability. High time…

Driving innovation by shadowing legacy systems

2 May, 2023 / Jody Roblin

Gone are the days where you opened a bank account as a child or at university and then stayed loyal to that bank for life. Today, customers are switching banks…

Bank’s role in driving a positive climate impact

Great to see Steve's article in Sustainability Magazine this weekend, highlighting that banks are in a unique position to impact sustainability, and explaining how processes like transaction-based carbon accounting can…

Delivering next generation core banking

28 April, 2023 / Jody Roblin

The label next generation core banking is often applied to a wide range of core banking solutions, using an array of tech approaches, whether they are genuinely next generation or…

Leveraging data to help avoid vulnerability

Steve looks at how data can help banks spot behaviours that suggest a customers is becoming financially vulnerability.

Paul Payne talks to Intelligent Fin.Tech

In this recent article with Intelligent Fin.Tech, our very own Paul Payne, talks about life inside and outside of the office, as well as his predictions for areas of investment within finance.

How does real-time data processing in the cloud reduce environmental impact?

Unsurprisingly given that 94% of businesses use cloud computing in their operations, the cloud represents 2%-4% of the world's carbon footprint (source EarthWeb.com). For companies such as SaaScada who were…

How does access to banking change lives?

31 March, 2023 / Jody Roblin

Our co-founder Steve Round looks at an example of Financial Inclusivity that can change lives.

No need for open heart surgery

Nelson discusses how SaaScada’s core banking can co-exist with legacy technology to create new innovative products alongside your existing offering.

To remain a pillar of the community credit unions must work together

28 March, 2023 / Jody Roblin

In Financial IT, Steve Round looks at what makes credit unions unique and how they can leverage tech to create offering to compete against goliath financial institutions. With their member communities…

Rearchitecting Core Banking

Nelson explains how SaaScada’s event stream architecture makes it easier to innovate and build insights. By storing unstructured data, the data view options are endless.

Fireside with Founders and Leaders

Earlier this month our fearless leader, Nelson Wootton, was interviewed as part of the Fireside with Founders and Leaders series. So if you would like to get to know more…

Welcome to Steve Francis

21 March, 2023 / Jody Roblin

The latest SaaScada recruit, Steve Francis, joined us as Senior Sales Director in March. Here he shares his views on the changes in the Fintech space and the importance of…

The importance of Financial Inclusivity

Steve explains his belief that everyone has the right to have access to first class banking.

Doing things differently

As part of our video series Nelson explains the key differences in the way SaaScada’s technology has been built to enable real time customer insight and deliver innovation.

UK Fintech Awards 2023

Well, this is exciting! We're finalists for both StartUp of the Year and Banking Tech of the Year at the UK FinTech Awards 2023. See you at the awards ceremony on 27…

Creating innovative products

28 February, 2023

Nelson explains how our technology provides the agility needed to create new product offerings without impacting your existing offering.

How a coexistence model can help banks reduce legacy complexity and enable modernisation

21 February, 2023

Nelson’s latest article, published in Finextra, looks at how coexistence can drive modernisation to enable banks to take on the challengers and deliver innovation.

How can SaaS give banks a competitive edge over BaaS users?

20 February, 2023

Read Nelson's article on the benefits of SaaS vs BaaS - first published on 17 February on Betanews.com https://betanews.com/2023/02/17/saas-banks/?utm_campaign=Brand%20Building&utm_content=162540474&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin&hss_channel=lcp-10941184

Financial Inclusivity, Social Justice and Climate Change

17 February, 2023 / Jody Roblin

In our recent articles we have explored how financial inclusion is in part the solution to many of the greatest socioeconomic issues our planet faces, evidence shows that financial inclusivity…

Working with partners

15 February, 2023

Nelson explains how we work with your existing ecosystem partners or, for those looking to build something new, how we can help you create your best of breed ecosystem for…

Financial Inclusivity – driving positive change

10 February, 2023 / Jody Roblin

Our last article looked at how financial inclusion delivers sustainability in developing nations but there is also a huge impact for us in the UK. Despite being the 6th biggest…

Nelson and Paul talk technology in the February 2023 edition of IBSi FinTech Journal

9 February, 2023

In this month's edition of the IBSi FinTech Journal, Nelson Wootton and Paul Payne talk about what differentiates SaaScada from others in the market and our collaborative approach with customers.…

Passionate about financial inclusivity

8 February, 2023

Steve Round founded SaaScada with Nelson Wootton so that first class banking products could be offered to all. Financial inclusivity is his passion and here he explains a little about…

Enabling a sustainable future

2 February, 2023 / Jody Roblin

Sustainable development has three broad dimensions, namely, the economic dimension, environmental dimension and social dimension, and back in 2015, the United Nations member states came up with the 17 Sustainable…

How SaaScada’s core banking offering is different.

1 February, 2023

For the last few years SaaScada's core banking engine has been quietly empowering our customers with the technology to swiftly launch new products and services. Every customer offering is unique…

Going Beyond Financial Inclusion

26 January, 2023 / Jody Roblin

About one-third of adults, or about 1.7 billion people, still don't have a bank account. Without a bank your money is vulnerable, you can’t get paid by direct debit, you…

The story behind SaaScada

26 January, 2023

Our founders, Nelson Wootton and Steve Round, are passionate about making it possible for everyone to access first class banking products and services. So having built a financial institution to…

Relio selects SaaScada to help build digital payment accounts designed for complex business

26 January, 2023 / Jody Roblin

SaaScada’s API driven core banking engine will allow Relio to create feature-rich digital accounts for businesses at a fraction of the time and cost. London, 26 January 2023 – Cloud-native…

The drivers behind the creation of SaaScada

25 January, 2023

Founder, Steve Round, talks about his drivers for starting SaaScada.

Banking Innovation Day

24 January, 2023

A big thank you to the team at SwissCom for inviting us to be part of their Banking Innovation Day in Zurich. Here's a shot of our co-founder and CEO,…

Events, Insight

The Board’s eye view

4 January, 2023

This article was first published by the Wealth Mosaic as a follow up to Swiss WealthTech Live 22. At our recent Swiss event, Steve Round, Founder at SaaScada, provided the…

Winner: Best Core Banking Implementation: Best Adoption of Tools & Practices

15 December, 2022

SaaScada are thrilled to announce that we have won the award for ‘Best Core Banking Implementation: Best Adoption of Tools & Practices’ at the IBSi Global FinTech Innovation Awards 2022…

astrantiaPay Selects SaaScada to Enrich Swiss Landscape of Business Payments and Fill Market Gap

29 November, 2022

Swiss financial firm, astrantiaPay, to use SaaScada’s cloud-native core banking engine to simplify cross-border payments for SMEs and facilitate international trade and services across the old and new economies London,…

News, Press Release

Miles Roberts joins SaaScada board

23 November, 2022 / Jody Roblin

November 2022, London. SaaScada, the innovative cloud based core banking solution founded by Nelson Wootton and Steve Round, is thrilled to announce that Miles Roberts has joined the Board as…

Times International and SaaScada partner to deliver innovative trade and commerce financial solutions

22 November, 2022 / Jody Roblin

Global trade is forecast to increase between 30% and 70% by 2030, with 80% relying on trade finance. With traditional merchant banks struggling to meet the challenges of digitisation needed…

Consumer Duty: An opportunity to leverage the power of data

18 November, 2022

This article was first published in Global Banking & Finance Review. The introduction of the FCA’s Consumer Duty could be seen by many in financial services (FS) as another set of hoops…

SaaScada goes to Slush

16 November, 2022 / Jody Roblin

Antony Bream and Benjamin Ross are at Slush in Helsinki, spreading the word about SaaScada's cloud native core banking engine. If you're at Slush and you've not yet made contact, they'll be at…

Swiss WealthTech Landscape Report

16 November, 2022

The Swiss WealthTech Landscape Report produced by The Wealth Mosaic is now live. Our contribution to the report, Core Systems - The key to firm-wide success, discusses the importance of…

Board’s eye view

15 November, 2022

SaaScada's co-founder, Steve Round, has been at SwissWealthTechLive2022 in Zurich today, sharing his wealth of experience from the Boards' Eye View. Mixing the launch of the WealthMosaic’s third Swiss WealthTech Landscape…

27 October, 2022 / Jody Roblin

Established in 2019, Allica Bank is a leading fintech challenger bank, named by The Times newspaper as one of the UK’s Top 20 financial technology (fintech) companies. Allica Bank is…

News, Press Release

UK-based SaaScada secures £2.5 million seed funding to help target fintech challenger bank market, with revolutionary cloud native core banking platform

New funding primes company for growth and disruption of core banking platform marketplace. 5th May 2022, London. SaaScada, the cloud native core banking platform provider, today announced it has raised £2.5m…

News, Press Release

19 January, 2022

Cloud-native platform provider SaaScada will help Allica Bank continue its growth in the mainstream banking market. 19 January 2022, London. SaaScada, the leading new core banking platform and services provider announces…

SaaScada’s Race to Net Zero – Achieving The Triple Bottom Line

For some time, customers have wanted to buy from ethical brands, but now they are going one step further – they are choosing brands which are sustainably ethical. Increasingly, businesses are looking…

SaaScada appoints Paul Payne as Chief Technology Officer

22nd July 2021, London. SaaScada, the leading new core banking platform and services provider, today announced that Paul Payne joined as Chief Technology Officer. Paul will oversee the execution of…

Intelligent Banking

At SaaScada, we understand that data is critical to the successful running of a financial institution. It is not uncommon for a bank to spend as much as 10% of…

SaaScada: From Big Issue to core system entrant

12 November, 2020

SaaScada has interesting roots and a new core system that has found first takers in Switzerland and the UK. NextGen Core Banking Solutions talks to co-founder, Nelson Wootton, and Mark Williams, COO…

Case Study, Press Release

4 September, 2019

Alternative lender NEXA Finance selects cloud-based core banking platform SaaScada to provide a new lending solution to SMEs. SaaScada, a leading new core banking platform and services provider, has been…

Co-founder Steve Round nominated in FT Founders 50!

FT Founders’ 50 nominated Steve as part of 50 of the most game-changing founders of financial technology companies the industry has seen. Read Steve’s story here!

SaaScada wins Lotus Award for Innovation!

SaaScada wins Lotus Award for Innovation! The Lotus Awards recognise companies who are driving innovation. We’re excited that SaaScada is being recognised as banking SaaS providers who are both tackling…

SaaScada is Shortlisted: Most Disruptive FS Tech & Social Responsibility

Super excited to have been shortlisted for two awards by FS Tech Awards: Most Disruptive Financial Services Technology and Social Responsibility Award.

SaaScada delivering real change across Africa

4 February, 2018

SaaScada is proud to announce another step forward in their involvement in delivering real change across Africa. The collaboration in Ghana will ultimately lead to the Parlez! banking platform being…

Another first from SaaScada

4 February, 2018

Raspberry Pis all around for SaaScada SaaScada is the first team of developers in the world able to connect with the RBS/Ulster Bank’s open Application Programming Interface (API) winning Raspberry…

SaaScada proves that its FinTech solution can help millions of African Farmers

4 February, 2018

SaaScada has been chosen as one of the key partners in a major consortium to deliver real change in Africa. FinComEco, a fully integrated Financial & Commodities Ecosystem launched last…

SaaScada goes into Africa

4 February, 2018

SaaScada the market leading banking platform provider enabling banks and non banks to offer full current account services has been asked to form part of an International consortium to deliver…

Banking on Real Global Change

4 February, 2018

SaaScada today announces its first major partnership in North America to deliver its innovative integrated banking platform with access to over 30 million customers. SaaScada is the company that developed…

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