How Finslack helped build KogoPay
How Finslack helped build an award-winning online bank, KogoPay
KogoPay is a socially conscious fintech start-up that provides virtual IBANs in GBP and EUR and wallet in different currencies and facilitates cross-border payments for individuals, businesses and charities.
KogoPay is an electronic money platform and online bank with offices in London, Bangkok and Vilnius (Lithuania). KogoPay aims to create an ecosystem that makes it easy for individuals, businesses and charities to send and receive money globally with minimal costs. The company was founded by Dr Narisa Chauvidul-Aw as a way to make payments easier and friendlier.
Equipped with an EMI license from Lithuania, KogoPAY began working with LHV, an Estonian bank, to interact with their banking services. However, they needed banking technology stacks from a technology provider to build out their banking solution, which is an application that allows KogoPAY to onboard customers, issue virtual IBAN, manage customers/investors’ account balances and offer multi-currency wallet services.
After a research period, KogoPay chose Finslack as its banking technology provider and dived head-first into developing its e-money platform on top of Finslack. As an agile team, KogoPay relied on Finslack’s technical expertise to build both web and mobile apps, underlying payment systems, account issuing functionality, virtual wallets, and safely navigate compliance hurdles.
KogoPAY - Finslack Partnership
KogoPay partnered with Finslack to build and launch a banking product that offers bank accounts and internal accounts to customers, virtual wallets, payment disbursement and other banking services while covering the legal requirements of running an online bank. Finslack provided a ready-to-use technology platform that easily integrates with any bank allowing KogoPay to hold customers’ money with multiple host banks at the same time.
With Finslack, KogoPay was able to:
- Issue virtual account numbers: By resting on Finslack technology, KogoPay issues IBAN virtual account numbers, bank and internal accounts to customers. KogoPAY banking partners home customers’ deposits within the Finslack ecosystem.
- Avoid vendor locking: Finslack Bank-in-a-Box model allows KogoPay to choose and switch banking partners within Finslack at any time and mirror clients’ money with multiple host banks simultaneously. KogoPay can equally onboard new host banks within the Finslack ecosystem if they are unsatisfied with current host banks.
- Manage payment disbursement from customer accounts: Customers send money from their accounts to beneficiaries anywhere they are in the world. KogoPay facilitates this cross-border payment system.
- Manage payment reception into customer accounts: KogoPay customers can receive payment from anyone in the world (within or outside the Finslack ecosystem) into their accounts. Finslack automatically updates the customer account once a payment notification is received.
- Offer virtual wallets: KogoPay assigns virtual wallets to customers for fiat-to-fiat transactions. Since Finslack supports digital currencies, the wallets will also include cryptocurrency-to-fiat and fiat-to-crypto payments and later, when possible, Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs).
- Comply with local financial regulations: KogoPay easily meets the compliance requirements of any country they operate in or intend to enter given Finslack’s extensive country-specific expertise and advanced AML/KYC/CFT technologies.
Aside from providing KogoPay with the technology to build a banking solution, Finslack’s business advisory or consulting services to KogoPay was critical in helping them build their business from the ground up.
Creating long-term relationships one success at a time
Finslack’s success in helping SternBank launch new remittance and banking services to market influenced KogoPay decision to choose us. Among the outstanding feature of Finslack liked by KogoPay is how overly simple it is to assign account numbers directly from host banks just by clicking a few buttons.
“Finslack was able to bring up to market not only quickly, but cost-effectively and gave us a competitive edge”, said a KogoPay spokesperson, “Finslack compliance and business expertise saved us the time, energy, and money we would otherwise have to spend learning on our own. As we continue to build our solution and add new products — such as loans — we see Finslack as a critical long-term partner for that success.”
You’re next!
Ready to build the financial product your customers would love?
Contact us to help create the next financial powerhouse — your business.