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Fintech webinars and resources

Recorded sessions and free downloads on the questions our clients actually wrestle with - delivery model, mobile cost, embedded-finance economics, plus a mini-app platform scorecard, a product-ideas deck and a partner-evaluation checklist. Register once to watch or download.

Build or buyYour bank is unique. Your software doesn't have to be.
With Viacheslav Kostin, Dimitry Oosthoek

Where should a bank configure a platform, and where should it build its own software? Recorded live with Dimitry Oosthoek, Head of Strategic Client Solutions at Akkuro, and hosted by Hanna Yadlouskaya, COO of WislaCode.

  • The four places a requirement can live: the product, configuration, product evolution or an extension
  • Who owns the seam between the platform and the bank's own code
  • The exit cost, and the signals that the line needs to move
Chapters20
  1. 00:00Introduction: why this topic
  2. 02:30Dimitry Oosthoek: does a unique bank need unique software?
  3. 06:12Business difference vs software difference
  4. 07:39Use it, configure it, evolve it, extend around it
  5. 12:18Client examples: ASN Bank and Semmie
  6. 14:06Where do you draw the line?
  7. 15:33Slava Kostin: nobody prices the seam
  8. 17:36Who owns "around"?
  9. 20:36Gartner pace layers and Wardley evolution
  10. 23:29The exit cost
  11. 24:51I was wrong about the mobile bank
  12. 26:27Revolut: bought first, then built
  13. 29:01Q: what signals tell you the line needs to move?
  14. 31:06Q: what changed your mind on mobile banking?
  15. 32:44Q: who owns the integration layer?
  16. 36:31Q: how does a platform decide what belongs in it?
  17. 40:12Audience: digital currencies and core banking
  18. 44:28Audience: when does a configured platform become legacy?
  19. 47:37Audience: why not buy what our competitor bought?
  20. 50:41Wrap-up
Watch on YouTube17 September 2026 · All clips
Delivery modelIn-house vs outsourcing in fintech
With Viacheslav Kostin, Thekla Paschali

The better path for fintech delivery - in-house or outsourcing? Recorded live with Thekla Paschali, CTO of payabl.: the real trade-offs, concrete cases, and how to make the call for innovation and efficiency.

  • The real trade-offs, beyond headline cost
  • When in-house wins - and when it does not
  • How to structure an outsourced unit you can actually trust
Mobile deliveryCutting mobile build costs with Progressive Web Apps
With Viacheslav Kostin, Vasil Pahomov

How shifting from native to Progressive Web Apps lowers the cost of fintech, banking and business mobile apps - with practical strategies for savings of 30% or more.

  • Where native app budgets actually go
  • What a PWA replaces - and what it does not
  • A practical path to 30%-plus savings
Embedded financeEmbedded finance: infrastructure and business models
With Viacheslav Kostin, Ivan Istomin

A walk through embedded-finance infrastructure and the business models behind it - what to build, what to buy, and how the economics actually work.

  • The embedded-finance stack, layer by layer
  • Build versus buy for each layer
  • How the business models make money
Guides and downloadsTake the playbook with you

Three free PDFs to keep - a scorecard for choosing a mini-app platform, a deck of product ideas we have shipped, and a checklist for choosing a development partner. Register once to download any of them.

Free white paper (PDF)The Mini-App Platform Scorecard

A vendor-neutral scorecard for banks choosing a mini-app or super app platform: seven criteria, the FINMA, DORA and PSD2 rules behind each, and the exact question to put to a vendor - with real products named and rated on openness.

Get the guideFree guide (PDF)40+ fintech app ideas that make users love your app

A field guide of 40+ features we have actually shipped in fintech and banking apps - from instant onboarding and QR payments to savings mechanics and tools for sole traders. Borrow the ones that fit your roadmap.

Get the guideFree checklist (PDF)Choosing a software development partner? Here is how to stay out of trouble

A practical checklist for founders, investors and IT directors evaluating fintech development proposals beyond price - the questions to ask in an RFP, three warning signs a vendor may not deliver, and a scoring matrix to compare contractors objectively.

Get the guideFree practitioner guide (PDF)The orchestration-layer pattern for core banking integration

The engineering build behind our seams article: one middle-tier orchestration layer, one wrapper per legacy system, and collect-then-distribute for long flows - with two anonymised field examples, a build checklist, and each failure mapped to the DORA, RTGS and ISO 20022 record.

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Service decksOur capabilities as PDFs

Four presentation decks covering how we build for banking and fintech - software and mobile development, super apps, AI and XR, and progressive web apps. Download directly, no form required.

Banking and fintechSoftware and mobile app development for banking and fintech

Our software and mobile app development services for banks and fintechs, in one overview deck.

Download PDFPDF, 2.1 MB
Super appsSuper app development

Our approach to building modular banking and fintech super apps.

Download PDFPDF, 1.7 MB
AI and XRWislaCode products: AI and XR

A tour of our AI and extended reality (XR) product work.

Download PDFPDF, 1.4 MB
PWAProgressive web apps for fintech

Our progressive web app (PWA) development work for fintech and banking.

Download PDFPDF, 0.9 MB
Podcast appearancesSlava on other people's shows

Two conversations recorded as a guest, on fintech delivery and on where AI has actually reached payments. Both play right here, no form required.

The Curiosity CodeHow to Boost Fintech Software Development with the FinTech Blueprint? Experts share

Hosted by Alex Khomyakov, Productera, with the Productera team

A four-person panel on how a software partner earns its place in fintech, and where the trade-off really sits between security, scalability and the experience the customer sees.

  • Where security and user experience actually pull against each other
  • Facial recognition and geolocation for in-store payments
  • What separates one development partner from the next
Watch on YouTube7 February 2025 · Episode page
Agents of AI, by CaptoEpisode 10 - The Payments Robot

Hosted by Peter Steube, Capto

A short interview on a route from programmer to bank strategy and on to running a company, and on where AI has genuinely landed in payments as opposed to where it is talked about.

  • Where AI arrived first in payments: fraud, authentication and scoring
  • Pioneering NFC payments inside a bank
  • Define, then optimise, then adopt
Watch on YouTube28 October 2025 · Episode page