AAZZUR partners with financial services data platform Sikoia

By Gloria Methri

Innovative embedded finance integrator AAZZUR has partnered with Unified Data Platform and aggregator Sikoia to broaden its portfolio and accelerate speed to market for its clients.

The partnership will see Sikoia’s customer onboarding and risk assessment capabilities integrated into AAZZUR’s embedded finance ecosystem. Among many other things, Sikoia’s data and decisioning solutions will broaden AAZZUR’s credit and lending offerings, while its data insights will help AAZZUR clients to better understand, manage and mitigate their risk.

As an aggregator of financial services providers into a coherent data platform, Sikoia offers AAZZUR an opportunity to accelerate the onboarding of key capabilities for its clients.

Philipp Buschmann, CEO of AAZZUR, said, “Ever since Sikoia first appeared on my radar, it was clear to me we shared a similar vision about the future of financial services. As such, I’m thrilled we’re able to combine our ecosystems and that AAZZUR’s clients will soon be able to benefit from the instant customer insights gifted to them by Sikoia’s enrichment and verification solutions.”

Alexis Rog, CEO of Sikoia added, “We are delighted to join forces with AAZZUR and combine our very complementary offerings. This partnership will enable us to offer end-to-end solutions to our customers, combining AAZZUR’s best-in-class UX and front-end capabilities together with our decisioning and orchestration layer that streamlines customer onboarding and risk assessment.”

Berlin-based AAZZUR enables companies to create a new mobile banking app from scratch or enhance their existing offering within just weeks, using its modular smart banking platform. Its embeddable Smart Finance Blocks help clients improve their customers’ financial lives via embedded wealth management services, budgeting tools, insurance, carbon offset programmes and more.