Just one month after signing a deal with fellow Finovate alum Kreditech that will support the Germany-based lender’s entry to the Indian market, Mambu is back in the headlines with a partnership with Mexican systems integrator Softtek. Via the agreement, Softtek will launch a banking platform as a service (BPaaS) solution that will give the firm the ability to deliver a variety of SaaS and local apps and technologies from multiple vendors from a singular, cloud-based, API-enabled platform – powered by Mambu.

“New entrants are using digital technology to meet changing customer expectations as well as reach the large underbanked sector,” MD for Mambu Americas, Edgardo Torres-Caballero explained. “To succeed, competitors must emulate the operating models of these disruptors and develop the flexibility and speed to market necessary to meet market demands.”

“BPaaS is the optimal model to meet this objective,” Torres-Caballero said.

Noting that the collaboration will give clients “the best of both companies,” Softtek Mexico CEO Carlos Funes said, “Powered by the global leading SaaS banking engine Mambu, which provides advanced capabilities and the agility demanded by the financial sector, we have combined this with Softtek’s experience and knowledge of this industry in Mexico in order to provide a complete offering which will help accelerate the transition of our customers to the digital economy without disrupting their existing business.” The company’s VP of Financial Sector, Jose Luis Sanchez added that there were “more than 3,000” FIs in Mexico that could “potentially benefit” from this partnership.

“With a 100% digital platform that is flexible, scalable, and agile, it will enable these institutions to provide innovative cloud-first banking services and credit to its customers in the consumer and corporate market,” Sanchez said.

Mambu demonstrated its cloud-based banking engine at FinovateAsia 2013. The company ended 2017 announcing a partnership with Argentina-based fintech Wenance, which will use Mambu’s technology to fuel its expansion into Latin America. In October, ABM Amro’s New10 choose Mambu’s SaaS engine to power its line of SME lending products in the Netherlands, and in September, German challenger bank N26 reported that it too would deploy Mambu’s platform to support current accounts, overdraft, and loan products.

With more than $13 million in funding, Mambu includes Acton Capital Partners and CommerzVentures among its investors. Eugene Danilkis is co-founder and CEO.

Mambu has gone on the record about its core banking software project at N26, a German-based challenger bank, reports Tanya Andreasyan of Banking Technology (Finovate’s sister publication).

N26 is using Mambu’s flagship core system, provided on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) basis. The vendor said it enables the mobile-only bank “to integrate systems and quickly bring services to market in support of its growth strategy”.

N26 migrated to Mambu’s platform once it obtained its own banking licence late last year. Prior to that, it had been relying on a partner bank.

The bank’s customer base has recently reached 500,000 across Europe.

According to Gino Cordt, CTO of N26, the new platform resulted in a “drastic” decrease of the bank’s operating costs and minimising the IT resource requirements.

Cordt also complimented Mambu’s “ease of integration, flexibility and time to market”.

Mambu’s core banking system supports current accounts, overdraft and loan products at N26.

Eugene Danilkis, co-founder and CEO of Mambu, praised N26, saying “By putting customer experience at the centre of their strategy, they have created an app which gives their customers a truly simple banking experience.

“This is a great example of how retail banking can be redesigned in the 21st century.”

Mambu demonstrated its technology at FinovateAsia 2013 in Singapore. Headquartered in Berlin, the company has raised more than $13 million in funding, and includes Action Capital Partners and CommerzVentures GmbH among its investors.