Company: SaaScada
Co-Founders: Nelson Wootton (CEO) and Steve Round (President)
Website: https://saascada.com/
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About SaaScada
SaaScada is a data-driven core banking engine built from the ground up for the demands of modern financial services. The company was born out of a conviction that legacy core banking infrastructure was fundamentally broken, too rigid, too slow, and wholly unfit for the data-driven, customer-centric products that the next generation of financial institutions needed to deliver.
SaaScada brought together an engineering team from a range of industries who brought deep cloud-native expertise to banking software without the preconceived ideas about how things have always been done. Free from the assumptions that have constrained legacy vendors for decades, the team was able to reimagine core banking from first principles.
Where legacy platforms force institutions to work around their limitations, SaaScada inverts that model entirely. Its highly configurable, event-sourced architecture gives banks, lenders, fintechs, and financial infrastructure providers the freedom to define and launch complex financial products on their own terms, without costly customisation projects or years of integration work. Every transaction, event and state change is stored in real time, creating a rich, granular data layer that makes SaaScada inherently AI-ready. When AI models need clean, structured, real-time data to power decisioning, personalisation and risk, SaaScada already has it.
But the value of that real-time data goes beyond AI readiness. It gives institutions the ability to truly learn from their operations, spotting what’s working, identifying friction, and making informed decisions faster than legacy systems ever allowed. Paired with SaaScada’s deep product configurability, that insight becomes action: clients can adapt their product propositions, pricing, and processes without lengthy development cycles or expensive change requests. The result is an institution that doesn’t just launch once and stand still, but continuously evolves, growing its capabilities and its customer base in step with a rapidly changing market.
SaaScada works with a diverse and growing range of clients: established banks, neobanks, fintechs, specialist lenders, and payment institutions. What connects them is a shared need for a core that can keep pace with ambition, whether that means launching a multi-wallet, multi-currency current account, managing cross-border payments at scale, delivering hyper-personalised lending products or entering a new market quickly with a suite of new products.
In the last 12 months alone, the company has signed new clients across the UK, the Nordics, the Baltics, Africa, and the Middle East. And with that expansion, SaaScada has delivered 100% year-on-year growth, a trajectory that reflects both the quality of the platform and the widening recognition that the core banking market is overdue for genuine disruption. Institutions that once accepted decades-old infrastructure as an unavoidable constraint are increasingly choosing a different path.
In a market where ‘next-generation’ is often a marketing label applied to modernised legacy systems, SaaScada is the real thing, configurable by design, built for real-time, and ready for whatever financial services looks like next.
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