Credorax, a payments company, has selected Temenos T24 Transact, deployed on the cloud, to provide SME, merchant acquiring and cross-border payment services, reports Henry Vilar of Fintech Futures (Finovate’s sister publication).

The firm has created an API-centric technology ecosystem with the Temenos open banking platform running on Microsoft Azure.

Temenos was the first banking software provider to launch a cloud offering running on Azure and since 2011, T24 Transact has been available as a managed service on the Temenos Cloud.

T24 Transact is part of Temenos’ new batch of products announced earlier this month.

Now, Credorax is a fully-fledged European commercial licensed bank via the Malta Financial Services Authority, and offers a suite of services, including fraud detection and local processing.

Steen Jensen, managing director – Europe, Temenos said: “With T24 Transact, Credorax can capitalize on real-time flexible technology today, as well as have a foundation for future growth.”

“We want to provide the scalability necessary to dominate the financial services industry and couple that with versatile and innovative cloud services,” added Moshe Selfin, COO of Credorax.

Credorax’s move into cloud-based banking was motivated by the introduction of PSD2, according to the firm.

Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, Temenos demonstrated its Connect Mobile Banking solution at FinovateEurope 2015. More than 3,000 companies around the world, including 41 of the top 50 banks, leverage Temenos’ technology to support the transactions of more than 500 million bank customers.