Building a Bank in 12 Months

Banking transformation is essential, yet it is also challenging, risky and expensive. GFT and Engine by Starling have joined forces to derisk and accelerate banking transformation with a unique approach that is firmly rooted in practical reality.

They are the power behind Salt Bank, Romania’s first cloud-native digital bank, which was designed, built and launched in under a year. From the outset, customers of Salt Bank enjoyed a world-class digital banking experience, including rapid onboarding, multicurrency transactions and full integration with local payments and card schemes.

The success of Salt Bank is a triumph of collaboration in the digital age.

Built on proven methods and world-class technology.

• A complete, working solution: because it was built to power Starling Bank in the UK, the Engine's platform provides a fully functional bank that can be stood up on Day 1. It has been proven and stress-tested at scale over the last 7 years.
• A pre-integrated approach: unlike existing composable models, where multiple solutions need to be stitched together, Engines' capabilities are modular, pre-integrated, and designed to work in harmony.
• Flexible and configurable: while being a comprehensive solution, Engine is also flexible and configurable with the ability to adjust, remove or replace modules and capabilities as needed.
• Engine’s Management Portal: a single pane of glass that gives employees a 360° customer view and provides them with all the tools they need to work effectively and better serve customers.
• A managed service and SaaS-based offering: Engine is a managed service with modern architecture deployed on public clouds. A continuous delivery model takes away the burden of managing expensive updates, patching and support, lowering risk and IT operational costs.