BLIK, a cutting-edge payment system from Poland, has partnered with Aion Bank and Vodeno, a provider of advanced financial technology. This collaboration will allow Vodeno and Aion Bank, which is an issuer within the BLIK system, to offer fintechs, banks, and other financial institutions access to BLIK services.
BLIK-as-a-Service
BLIK, which has quickly become a widely used payment solution in Poland, is consistently expanding its services and network of partnerships, thereby increasing its market presence. The partnership with Vodeno and Aion Bank marks BLIK’s first as-a-service agreement, which will enable various entities from financial and non-financial sectors across Europe to be able to use BLIK’s services.
Vodeno and Aion Bank offer a cutting-edge, scalable, and flexible cloud-based platform combined with extensive banking services, leveraging Aion’s European Central Bank license and regulation by the National Bank of Belgium. Their Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) solutions cater to both financial and non-financial sectors across Europe. This enables Vodeno and Aion Bank to seamlessly integrate various financial solutions, including instant local currency payments, directly into the systems of their clients, which range from retail and e-commerce to fintechs and banks.
“Expanding the portfolio of participants in our system within the embedded finance model opens new growth opportunities for us not only in Poland, but also globally. I am convinced that BLIK’s partnership with renowned players such as Vodeno and Aion Bank will significantly support the development of mobile payments in Europe. We will soon see the first results of our cooperation and, thus, the first implementations,” says Dariusz Mazurkiewicz, President of the Management Board, Polish Payment Standard, BLIK operator.
“The Vodeno Cloud Platform is designed to fully integrate banking and payment services. Now, by partnering with BLIK, we can provide another modern and secure payment solution to the European market, meeting the growing needs and expectations of consumers. We believe that the combination of our advanced technologies with the innovation of the BLIK system will create new standards within financial services, opening up new opportunities and experiences for our clients and their end customers,” says Noah Sharp, CEO of Vodeno.