Recorded live at Baltic Fintech Days in Riga, this conversation with Nelson Wootton, CEO and co-founder of SAASCADA, cuts straight to the heart of what is broken in core banking and what a genuinely modern alternative looks like.
Nelson built a bank, had to buy the software, and decided there had to be a better way. What came out of that experience is a cloud-native core banking platform that is turning heads across Europe and the Middle East.
In this episode you will hear why separating read and write operations through unstructured data storage is a genuine architectural game changer, how SAASCADA’s composable product blocks eliminate the nightmare of regression testing that haunts every traditional core provider, why the RFP process is broken beyond repair and what Nelson is doing instead, how coexistence with legacy systems like T24 makes progressive modernisation a realistic path rather than a career-ending gamble, and why Nelson believes a bank can go from day one to first value in under a year on a single product.
If you work in banking technology, run a fintech, or are trying to make sense of the thin core and coreless banking debate, this one is worth your full attention.