European Alternatives to Fiserv
Looking for a European alternative to Fiserv? Fiserv is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and its own bank page says more than 1 in 3 U.S. financial institutions use its account processing solutions, with approximately 10,000 financial institution clients. For a European bank, a US-headquartered core vendor means US-based corporate control, and its pricing is not published.
The European vendors below range from SaaS cores built on modules to long-established universal platforms, with contracting entities in the EU, the UK and Switzerland.
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12 European Alternatives to Fiserv
Thought Machine
Cloud-native core ledger and payments with a configuration layer
Mambu
Composable SaaS core for lending, deposits and payments
Skaleet
Modular SaaS core banking on EU-based private cloud
10x Banking
SaaS core for banks, mutuals and lenders with AI migration tools
Temenos
Core, digital, payments and wealth banking on-premises, cloud or SaaS
Engine by Starling
Core banking platform that runs Starling Bank, sold to other banks
Crosskey
Nordic transactional banking platform for payments, accounts and lending
SBS
Core banking and lending software with 250+ modules
ERI OLYMPIC Banking System
Front-to-back core for private, retail and custody banks
Avaloq
Cloud banking and wealth platform with operations services
SDK.finance
Source-code fintech platform with core banking and a public SaaS price
Vodeno
BaaS and smart-contract core banking with partner bank licence
Key takeaways
- Fiserv is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and states on its bank page that more than 1 in 3 U.S. financial institutions use its account processing solutions.
- Fiserv counts approximately 10,000 financial institution clients, which is a scale none of the European vendors on this page matches on its own claim, with Temenos citing over 950 banks for Core Banking.
- Of the 12 European vendors on this page, only SDK.finance publishes a price: €10,000 flat for three months, then €5,500 per month plus €0.05 per transaction.
- Skaleet, Mambu and Crosskey are the vendors here that describe switching capabilities on one at a time, which suits a bank that wants to replace a Fiserv core in stages.
- Thought Machine, 10x Banking and Engine by Starling are UK companies, and Temenos, ERI and Avaloq are Swiss, so only Mambu, Skaleet, Crosskey, SBS, SDK.finance and Vodeno contract from inside the EU.
Why people leave Fiserv
Fiserv runs from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and its bank page describes the scale of the account-processing business in one sentence: more than one in three U.S. financial institutions use its account processing, and it counts approximately 10,000 financial institution clients. The company's group page adds 6 million merchant locations, 1.6 billion issuing accounts on file and a peak of 25,000 financial transactions per second. For a US community bank, buying a core from Fiserv is the default move, not a gamble.
A European bank reads the same page differently. The core is a long-lived commitment, often ten years or more, and the vendor that holds it also holds corporate control over the roadmap, the support staff and the contract terms.
Fiserv sells to the U.S. market first: its client stories name Western State Bank, Bank of the Lowcountry and Capra Bank, and the product vocabulary is built around US account processing and Zelle processing. Whether a bank in Lyon or Tallinn gets the same attention is a question to put to the vendor in writing.
Pricing and terms are not on the pages we could read. The privacy notice link on fiserv.com returned a not-found page when we checked, and no price list is published, so buyers start with a sales contact. That is normal in core banking, and it is also why a tender with two or three European vendors beside Fiserv is the only way to learn what a comparable contract looks like.
- Corporate control sits in the United States Fiserv, Inc. lists its corporate headquarters at 600 N. Vel R. Phillips Ave. in Milwaukee. For a European supervisor, that means the entity behind the core answers to US law and a US board, whichever local subsidiary signs your contract. A core from a vendor in the EU, the UK or Switzerland puts the owner and the regulator's language in the same reading room, which shortens outsourcing and exit-plan conversations.
- A US account-processing mindset The bank page leads with US market share, Zelle processing and the number of US institutions served. Those are strengths in Milwaukee and say little to a bank that clears SEPA payments, issues IBANs and files reports under European rules. Ask every vendor, Fiserv included, for installations in your own country, since that shows how much local work is left after signing.
- Bundled stack versus separate choices Fiserv sells the core together with digital banking, card services, data and analytics, financial crime tools and an AppMarket of pre-integrated fintech solutions. Buying one stack from one vendor is convenient and also concentrates risk. Several European vendors sell a core without insisting on the surrounding products, and Mambu, Skaleet and Crosskey let you switch capabilities on one by one.
- No published price to benchmark Nothing on the pages we read shows what a Fiserv core costs per account or per year. Among the European vendors, only SDK.finance publishes a number: €10,000 flat for the first three months, then €5,500 per month plus €0.05 per transaction. The others also sell on request, so every quote has to come from a request for proposal, not from a website.
What you have to replace, not just match
Replacing a Fiserv core means replacing a ledger and everything that talks to it. The ledger holds accounts, balances, interest and fees for deposits and loans.
Around it sit the general ledger postings, the card processor, the online and mobile channels, the general reporting and the batch jobs that run at night. Fiserv's own bank page lists these as separate areas: Banking Core, Digital Banking, Card Services, Data and Analytics, Enterprise Content Management and Financial Crime Mitigation. Make a list of which of them you actually bought from Fiserv before you shortlist a European vendor.
The second thing to replace is the operating arrangement. Fiserv offers Secure Managed Services, covering infrastructure, networking and cybersecurity, plus Hardware Advantage for equipment procurement and Fiserv Academy for training.
A bank that leaned on those has outsourced more than software. The nearest European equivalents are the operations offers of Avaloq (banking operations as a service) and Crosskey (which says it implements, operates and develops solutions with customers); the SaaS vendors such as Mambu or Skaleet take over hosting by design.
The third piece is the ecosystem. The AppMarket lists pre-integrated fintech solutions, and a US bank may have wired its lending origination, fraud tools or open banking connections to Fiserv interfaces. On the European side, the integrations that matter are different: payment schemes, local credit bureaus, a KYC provider and the national reporting channel. Ask each vendor for reference installations in your country, because a feature list does not show whether the local integrations already exist.
The alternatives compared
| Position | Tool | Headquarters | Pricing | Jurisdiction |
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| #1 | Thought Machine | London, United Kingdom | Pricing on request | United Kingdom (adequacy decision, outside the EEA) |
| #2 | Mambu | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Pricing on request | EU (Netherlands) |
| #3 | Skaleet | Boulogne-Billancourt, France | Pricing on request | EU (France) |
| #4 | 10x Banking | London, United Kingdom | Pricing on request | United Kingdom (adequacy decision, outside the EEA) |
| #5 | Temenos | Grand-Lancy (Geneva), Switzerland | Pricing on request | Switzerland (adequacy decision, outside the EEA) |
| #6 | Engine by Starling | London, United Kingdom | Pricing on request | United Kingdom (adequacy decision, outside the EEA) |
| #7 | Crosskey | Mariehamn (Åland), Finland | Pricing on request | EU (Finland) |
| #8 | SBS | Courbevoie (registered in Annecy), France | Pricing on request | EU (France) |
| #9 | ERI OLYMPIC Banking System | Meyrin (Geneva), Switzerland | Pricing on request | Switzerland (adequacy decision, outside the EEA) |
| #10 | Avaloq | Zurich, Switzerland | Pricing on request | Switzerland (adequacy decision, outside the EEA) |
| #11 | SDK.finance | Vilnius, Lithuania | SaaS: first 3 months EUR 10,000 flat, then EUR 5,500 per month plus EUR 0.05 per transaction; source-code licence on request | EU (Lithuania) |
| #12 | Vodeno | Warsaw, Poland | Pricing on request | EU (Poland) |
How each alternative compares to Fiserv
Thought Machine
London cloud-native ledger where product rules live in configuration, not vendor code
Best for: Banks ready to fund a multi-year migration away from a legacy core and wanting to own product logic
Against Fiserv's bundled stack, Thought Machine sells a narrow thing: Vault Core, a real-time ledger, and Vault Payments for payment orchestration and card processing. Products are defined in a configuration layer, and the vendor says the same codebase ships to every client with no forks. That model asks your product team to work inside the platform, which is different from asking a vendor for custom changes.
Thought Machine describes Lloyds Banking Group as its first tier 1 client in 2016 and was founded in London in 2014. It publishes no prices and no fixed migration timelines, and it says it avoids big-bang deployments. The contracting entity is Thought Machine Group Limited, a UK company, so the contract sits outside the EU even though the owner is not American.
What Thought Machine does better than Fiserv
- Changing product rules without waiting for a vendor release
- Real-time processing without scheduled maintenance windows, as described
- A separate payments product next to the ledger
Where Thought Machine is a step down from Fiserv
- Delivery inside your own data centre
- Install base among small community institutions
- Pre-packaged digital channels
Standout against Fiserv. Product logic is configuration on a single shared codebase, not a custom build for each bank.
Best for: Lenders, neobanks and credit unions that want to add product lines one at a time
Mambu splits what Fiserv sells as an account-processing core into Mambu Core for deposits and lending, Mambu Payments and an AI layer called Agentic. Lending breaks into consumer loans, business loans, purchase finance and mortgages, and deposits into consumer, business and stored value accounts. Islamic funding products are separate modules, which Fiserv's bank page does not mention.
The imprint names Mambu B.V. in Amsterdam, register number 862181227, and the homepage claims hundreds of customers in 65+ countries. The public API reference, release notes and status page let a technical team test before the first sales call. Hosting regions are not published, and it is not stated which Mambu entity signs customer contracts.
What Mambu does better than Fiserv
- Starting with one product line and adding others later
- Public API reference and sandbox before any sales call
- A Dutch registered company with a published register number
Where Mambu is a step down from Fiserv
- On-premise deployment, because it is SaaS only
- A published hosting region
- Heavy changes inside the core, since customisation sits around it
Standout against Fiserv. Its documentation, release notes and status page are public, which lets an engineer judge it before talking to sales.
Best for: Banks and payment firms that want the ledger hosted in EU data centres and switched on module by module
Skaleet makes the jurisdiction argument against Fiserv directly: according to the vendor, it runs private-cloud data centres in the EU that are not subject to the US Cloud Act. That is a vendor statement, but it is specific and checkable in a contract. Its entry points are greenfield, BaaS to SaaS and legacy migration, and the modules cover accounts, cards, payments, loans and savings.
The company is registered in Boulogne-Billancourt under SIREN 484939038, though the website itself shows no legal notice. Releases arrive every two months and implementation is given as 4 to 6 months by use case. The reference list, including Caisse d'Epargne Hauts de France, is shorter than a vendor with 10,000 clients can show, and some documentation is in French first.
What Skaleet does better than Fiserv
- EU-hosted private cloud as a stated design choice
- Modules activated one by one rather than a full-suite purchase
- A published implementation window to test in a proof of concept
Where Skaleet is a step down from Fiserv
- On-premise delivery, which is not offered
- A long reference list across many banks
- English-first documentation
Standout against Fiserv. It is the vendor on this page that builds its pitch on hosting in EU data centres outside the US Cloud Act.
Best for: Building societies, mutuals and banks that want retail and corporate accounts on one SaaS platform
10x Banking targets customer-owned banks and building societies, a segment US cores such as Fiserv's serve mainly through a community-bank lens. The site lists three AI functions: AI Build turns a plain-English description into product configuration, AI Learn answers questions from live data, and AI Migrate maps legacy data to the platform, which is the claim to test when leaving an older core.
Case studies include Chase UK, West Brom Building Society, Westpac (banking as a service), Tungsten Automation and Remara. The homepage quotes more than 100 million accounts and 99.99 percent uptime, with no audit linked. The entity is 10x Banking Technology Limited, company number 10146101, registered in London, so the contract is British and the hosting region is not stated.
What 10x Banking does better than Fiserv
- Tooling aimed at the data-mapping step of a migration
- Retail and corporate banking on a single platform
- A published buying guide for choosing a core
Where 10x Banking is a step down from Fiserv
- On-premise deployment
- Disclosed hosting region
- Independent proof of the scale figures
Standout against Fiserv. Its AI Migrate function is the only tool on this page marketed specifically at mapping legacy banking data.
Best for: Banks of any size that want a full suite and the choice to keep it in their own data centre
Temenos is the European vendor closest to Fiserv in shape: core banking, digital banking, payments and wealth management in one portfolio, with segment versions for credit unions, community banks and Islamic banking. The vendor claims over 950 banks use its Core Banking and that it has 52 offices in 36 countries. Few vendors here match its choice of on-premises, cloud or Temenos SaaS.
The privacy policy names Temenos Headquarters SA in Grand-Lancy, Switzerland, as data controller, with Temenos Systems Ireland Ltd as its EU representative. Switzerland is outside the EU, and with offices in many countries you must check which group entity signs. Implementations normally run with delivery partners, which raises cost and lead time, and prices are not published.
What Temenos does better than Fiserv
- Choice between on-premises, cloud and SaaS
- A named EU representative in Ireland
- Wealth, payments and core in the same portfolio
Where Temenos is a step down from Fiserv
- Lightweight starts for small lenders
- Cost transparency
- A single clear contracting entity
Standout against Fiserv. It is the only European universal suite here that can be installed on a bank's own servers or bought as SaaS.
Best for: Banks launching a digital bank or a sidecar brand on a stack another bank already operates
Engine bundles what a Fiserv buyer often sources from several suppliers: core banking products, a management portal for operations staff and mobile SDKs for the customer app. The vendor says its platform has powered Starling since 2016 and quotes Starling's 2025 annual report figures of 6.2 million group accounts and 79 percent active customers, which are not checked here.
The company is Engine by Starling Limited, registered in England and Wales under number 13925405, with more than 400 staff by its own count. Its case study, Salt Bank, says Engine helped meet a 12-month project timeline. The weak point is independence: much of the proof is the vendor's own sister bank, hosting and pricing are not stated, and no self-hosting appears on the site.
What Engine by Starling does better than Fiserv
- Pre-integrated portal and app SDKs in the box
- Proof from an operating bank rather than a lab
- A short, documented launch case in Salt Bank
Where Engine by Starling is a step down from Fiserv
- Independence from a bank in the same group
- Number of outside references
- Self-hosted deployment
Standout against Fiserv. The platform has been in production since 2016 at the vendor's own bank, Starling.
Best for: Nordic and wider European banks wanting payments, accounts and lending delivered with a hands-on partner
Crosskey's Transactional Banking Platform joins onboarding, customer data, account management, payments, credit origination and loan servicing, with AML and KYC inside the customer module. Capabilities can be deployed independently, so a bank replacing Fiserv could move lending first and payments later. The group also lists a Cards Platform, a Wealth Management Platform and a Swift Service Bureau, which Fiserv would sell as separate products.
The company is Crosskey Banking Solutions Ab Ltd in Mariehamn, Åland, with EU ID FI 19066720, and the vendor cites over 20 years of experience. Its wording is about long-term partnership and regulated Nordic banking, which helps a Nordic buyer and asks a Southern European one to check references. The site has no technical documentation, pricing or stated deployment model.
What Crosskey does better than Fiserv
- Cards, wealth and Swift services in the same corporate group
- Implementing and operating alongside the customer
- Personal data processing inside the EU/EEA as a rule
Where Crosskey is a step down from Fiserv
- Published technical documentation
- Reference depth outside the Nordics
- Disclosed deployment options
Standout against Fiserv. Payments, accounts and lending share one system but can be bought and deployed one at a time.
Best for: Banks and building societies that want to retire an old core piece by piece, not in one weekend
SBS pitches a staged exit from a legacy core: keep the existing system for stability, move one domain at a time to a modular, API-first, cloud-native core, and run both in parallel. That is the sequence a bank on an older Fiserv installation is likely to need. The core offers more than 250 modules across deposits, lending, savings, payments, cards and regulatory reporting.
The terms of use give SBS share capital of €161,866,820, registration in Annecy under number 450 792 999 and headquarters in Courbevoie, and the footer says it belongs to 74Software. The product differs by region (Core Amplitude, Core SAB in France, the Core Mortgage and Savings Suite in the UK), and client figures differ between pages, so we leave them out.
What SBS does better than Fiserv
- A stated parallel-run route from legacy to modular
- Lending and asset finance products in the same range
- Complete registration data in the terms
Where SBS is a step down from Fiserv
- A single product definition across markets
- Consistent client figures
- A cloud-native-only greenfield story
Standout against Fiserv. Its migration pitch is built on running the old and new core side by side by domain.
ERI OLYMPIC Banking System
Front-to-back platform from Geneva, strongest in private banking and custody
Best for: Private banks, custodians and fund administrators that value investment functions inside the core
OLYMPIC is where a Fiserv buyer with a wealth business finds more depth than a retail core offers. The expertise list pairs core banking, savings and loans with portfolio management, advisory, custody, fund administration and order management. ERI says about 400 institutions in over 60 countries have used it over 30 years, and it describes the platform as fully integrated from front to back.
ERI Bancaire S.A. sits in Meyrin near Geneva, with separate legal entities in Luxembourg, Paris, Madrid, London and Singapore. That structure means the signing company varies by country, so ask which one issues your contract. SaaS and cloud delivery are available, hosting regions and prices are not published, and the heritage is private banking rather than consumer neobanking.
What ERI OLYMPIC Banking System does better than Fiserv
- Custody and fund administration inside the same platform
- A SaaS option from a Swiss vendor
- Offices in several European countries
Where ERI OLYMPIC Banking System is a step down from Fiserv
- Consumer-bank and neobank focus
- A single legal counterpart
- Disclosed hosting regions
Standout against Fiserv. Custody, fund administration and order management sit in the same system as the core.
Best for: Private banks and wealth managers that want to hand operations to the vendor as well as the software
Avaloq is a wealth-first alternative to a retail core such as Fiserv's. Its range runs from digital channels and investment management to trading, lending, payments, treasury and risk, with Banking Operations offered as business process as a service. A bank can therefore outsource operations, not only licence software, and the site lists a partnership with Aladdin by BlackRock.
The terms identify Avaloq Group Ltd., Allmendstrasse 140, Zurich, under Swiss law with Zurich courts. The site claims 170+ clients in 35 countries and USD 5.1 trillion of assets on the software, both vendor figures. It does not state the owner, founding year or hosting regions, and the site blocks automated reading, so further detail was not checked.
What Avaloq does better than Fiserv
- Banking operations as a service next to the software
- Wealth and private banking depth
- Swiss law and Zurich courts spelled out in the terms
Where Avaloq is a step down from Fiserv
- Retail-only lending
- Stated ownership
- Public technical documentation
Standout against Fiserv. A bank can buy banking operations as a service from the same vendor that supplies the platform.
SDK.finance
Lithuanian fintech platform with a published SaaS price and an optional source-code licence
Best for: Fintechs, e-money institutions and payment firms, and banks that want to hold the source code
SDK.finance sits at the other end of the scale from Fiserv's 10,000 institutions. It sells a transaction platform and a standalone general ledger that turns business events into double-entry journal entries, with accounts, cards, IBANs and KYC/KYB integration. The SaaS tariff is public: €10,000 flat for three months, then €5,500 monthly plus €0.05 per transaction, including back-office and apps.
An enterprise route offers a source-code licence installed on the client's own infrastructure, priced on request. The vendor lists PCI DSS Level 1 and ISO 27001:2022, and says clients are spread over 25+ countries. TechFin UAB, registered in Lithuania under 305153451, says it is not a bank or payment institution, so the client must bring the licence, and it is not a universal bank core.
What SDK.finance does better than Fiserv
- A price you can read before talking to anyone
- Source-code ownership on your own servers
- 650+ REST APIs, back office and apps included
Where SDK.finance is a step down from Fiserv
- Universal-bank breadth and install base
- Holding the regulatory licence itself
- Vendor size
Standout against Fiserv. It is the only vendor here that publishes a price and also sells a source-code licence.
Best for: Companies launching accounts, cards and lending products without applying for a banking licence themselves
Vodeno answers a different question from Fiserv's. Instead of a core for an existing bank, it offers a cloud platform plus access to a full banking licence through its partnership with Aion Bank. Its HiLo core uses smart contracts, which the vendor describes as self-executing code on blockchain technology, with a no-code product designer and accounts carrying European IBANs.
Services around it include onboarding, lending and BNPL, payments with live FX, Mastercard card issuing and outsourced transaction monitoring. The company is Vodeno sp. z o.o., KRS 0000728418, Warsaw. Treat the vendor's claims, such as 500+ controls, as claims. The website looked partly stale when checked, with a 2024 footer and placeholder text, and the licence belongs to a partner, not to Vodeno.
What Vodeno does better than Fiserv
- Launching without your own banking licence
- Cards, FX and onboarding in one stack
- A Polish registry entry with share capital published
Where Vodeno is a step down from Fiserv
- Running a bank on its own licence
- A conventional ledger approach
- An up-to-date website and published pricing
Standout against Fiserv. It is the one option here that comes with access to a partner bank's licence.
What actually breaks when you switch
The hard part of leaving Fiserv is the data, not the contract.
Account histories, interest and fee tables, standing orders and loan schedules have to be extracted from a core that was configured for US conventions, then mapped to a European product model with IBANs, SEPA mandates and local reporting. Ask each vendor whether it has migrated from a US core before, and who owns the mapping work. 10x Banking markets AI Migrate for this step, and SBS proposes moving one domain at a time with both cores running.
Then comes everything around the ledger. Fiserv's bank page lists digital banking, card services, content management, financial crime tools and managed services as separate products, and each one that you drop needs a replacement or a new interface.
Expect retraining for operations staff, a fresh integration test with your card processor and a period in which two systems hold parts of your book. Check termination clauses and data-return terms in the existing contract early, because the pages we could read publish no terms to rely on.
Is a European core banking vendor realistic for a bank that today runs on Fiserv?
Yes, but the answer depends on size and on how much of the Fiserv stack you use. Temenos says Core Banking is used by over 950 banks and offers on-premises, cloud and SaaS deployment, which is the closest match to a bank that currently runs software in its own data centre. Thought Machine and 10x Banking describe cloud-native cores, and both name bank clients in their reference lists.
Small and mid-size banks will find the SaaS route lighter. Mambu, Skaleet and SDK.finance let a team start with one product line, while the larger suites require a systems integrator. Ask every vendor how many installations replaced a legacy core, not only how many greenfield banks it counts.
What does a core replacement away from Fiserv really cost and take?
Only SDK.finance publishes a price, and its SaaS tariff describes a platform for fintech products, not a universal bank core. For the rest, cost is a quote. Skaleet states an implementation time of 4 to 6 months for its use cases; Thought Machine publishes no fixed timelines and says it avoids big-bang deployments. Treat both as vendor statements to test in a proof of concept.
Budget for the work around the core as well: data migration, interface rewrites, testing with your card processor and staff retraining. Temenos delivery runs mostly through partners, which adds a second contract. A plan that moves one product line first, such as savings accounts, limits the risk and lets you measure the vendor before the whole book follows.
Which one to pick
If the bank wants a full suite and the freedom to keep it in its own data centre, Temenos is the nearest European match to Fiserv, with Avaloq and ERI as the private-banking specialists and Crosskey as a Nordic partner-style supplier. If the plan is a staged exit from an old core, SBS and Thought Machine both describe incremental or non-big-bang routes, and 10x Banking brings AI tooling for the data mapping.
If the bank is a lender or neobank starting lean, Mambu and Skaleet offer modules to add one at a time, and Skaleet is the one that puts EU-hosted data centres at the centre.
SDK.finance is the choice when a published price and a source-code licence matter more than universal-bank depth, and Vodeno fits a company that has no licence of its own. Engine by Starling suits a bank that wants a ready digital stack proven at an operating bank. Whatever the shortlist, request the same written answers from every vendor, including Fiserv: contracting entity, hosting region, migration references and exit terms.
Frequently Asked Questions
There is no single answer, because Fiserv covers several jobs. Temenos is the closest match for a bank that wants on-premises, cloud or SaaS options. Mambu and Skaleet suit lenders and neobanks that prefer a modular SaaS core, Thought Machine and 10x Banking target banks replacing a legacy core with a cloud-native one, and Avaloq and ERI fit private banks and custodians.
Yes. Fiserv's contact page lists its corporate headquarters at 600 N. Vel R. Phillips Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and its bank page addresses U.S. financial institutions first. For a European bank this means control of the vendor rests in the United States, which supervisors weigh in outsourcing and exit planning. A contract with a European subsidiary does not change where the parent sits.
Mambu (Amsterdam), Skaleet (Boulogne-Billancourt), Crosskey (Mariehamn), SBS (Courbevoie), SDK.finance (Vilnius) and Vodeno (Warsaw) are registered in EU member states. Thought Machine, 10x Banking and Engine by Starling are UK companies, and Temenos, ERI and Avaloq are Swiss. Mambu does not say which group entity signs customer contracts, so confirm the signing entity for each vendor.
One does. SDK.finance lists a SaaS price of €10,000 flat for the first three months and then €5,500 per month plus €0.05 per transaction, and offers a source-code licence on request. Thought Machine, Mambu, Skaleet, 10x Banking, Temenos, Engine by Starling, Crosskey, SBS, ERI, Avaloq and Vodeno all sell on request, as Fiserv does on the pages we read.
Partly. Crosskey lists a cards platform, a wealth management platform and a Swift service bureau next to its core, and Vodeno bundles cards with Mastercard, accounts and FX. Engine by Starling includes a management portal and mobile SDKs. Others sell the core alone and expect you to keep or choose a separate card processor and digital channel.
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