Vodeno & Aion Bank partner to offer BLIK services across Europe

By Gloria Methri

BLIK, a modern payment system from Poland, has formed a strategic partnership with Aion Bank and Vodeno, a provider of advanced financial technology. This cooperation will enable Vodeno and Aion Bank to offer FinTech, banks and other financial institutions access to BLIK services. Various entities from financial and non-financial sectors across Europe to be able to use BLIK’s services.

Vodeno and Aion Bank combine an innovative, scalable and flexible cloud-based platform with comprehensive banking services based on Aion’s European Central Bank license.

Their Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) solutions are available to businesses in the financial sector and other non-financial industries across Europe. This allows Vodeno and Aion Bank to integrate various financial solutions—including instant payment solutions in local currencies—directly into the systems of their customers in retail, e-commerce, FinTechs or banks. The two companies were acquired by UniCredit in July in a €370 million deal.

“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,” said Dariusz Mazurkiewicz, President of the Management Board, Polish Payment Standard, BLIK operator.

“The Vodeno Cloud Platform is designed to integrate banking and payment services fully. 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 new opportunities and experiences for our clients and their end customers,” said Noah Sharp, CEO of Vodeno.