Tuum, the core banking platform, has been selected by Bondora, a European consumer finance provider, to support its ambition to become a fully licensed digital bank and modernize its lending operations across multiple EU markets.
The collaboration will see Tuum provide its cloud-native core banking platform “to power both Bondora’s planned greenfield digital banking initiative and the migration of its existing consumer credit business—bringing both operations onto a single, modular platform.”
With more than 16 years in the market, Bondora is a “digitally mature, tech-led fintech active in five EU countries.”
As part of its exploration into becoming a fully licensed bank, Bondora plans to launch deposit and consumer lending products “on Tuum once licensed, leveraging the platform’s lending and savings modules and real-time architecture to scale efficiently across Europe.”
The project began as a greenfield initiative to lay the foundation for Bondora’s prospective banking operations and “has expanded to include the company’s incumbent lending business – creating a platform for growth.”
Tuum will be deployed in the public cloud (AWS), allowing Bondora to meet regulatory expectations “around business continuity, security, and operational resilience while benefiting from the speed and flexibility of SaaS delivery”.
Andrus Raudsalu, Chief Strategy Officer at Bondora said:
“Choosing Tuum means we can focus on customer experience and innovation while building on a modern, scalable foundation. With Tuum, we can serve our customers better while reducing the burden of infrastructure build and maintenance.”
Tuum was selected for its “modular design, cloud-native architecture, and ability to meet stringent EU regulatory expectations.”
The decision was also supported by Tuum’s track record “with other Eurozone institutions, including LHV and OP Financial Group.”
Tuum is the core banking platform “for a world of banking without limits.”
Built for institutions ready to modernize, scale, and lead, Tuum helps banks, lenders and fintechs “escape the constraints of legacy technology and accelerate into a new era of agility, innovation, and growth.”
Cloud-native and modular by design, Tuum supports “all key financial business models — from lending and payments to BaaS and Islamic banking — on a single, extensible platform.”
Clients can modernize progressively, “launch products in weeks, and expand into new markets without sacrificing control, compliance, or performance.”
With enterprise-grade scalability, real-time processing, and an open API architecture, Tuum notes that it delivers the flexibility “to adapt fast — while significantly lowering total cost of ownership and shifting budgets toward innovation.”
Tuum is said to be “trusted” by financial institutions “across the globe to build the future of banking — one without limits.”
