How Solarisbank is reshaping financial services with the structure, speed, and visibility of Atlassian

In an industry full of established players and regulatory roadblocks, it can be difficult for innovators to break in and truly make a difference. Fintech pioneers like Solarisbank are rising to the challenge to make banking simpler for companies and their customers.

As a tech company with a German banking license, Solarisbank offers a completely digital banking-as-a-service platform, which their customers (who they call “partners”) can leverage to spin up custom financial solutions for their own users, without the usual red tape. For example, if a retailer wants to give their customers the option to finance a big purchase or buy a gift card, they would normally need to work with a bank to do so. Most traditional banking institutions move slowly and have predefined offerings that are hard to customize. The process often takes many months or even years and results in a shoehorned solution. Alternatively, the retailer could connect to Solarisbank’s flexible, modern platform and build their own customized, compliant banking products in a fraction of the time.

许多员工已经在以这种或那种方式使用 Confluence，因此 Solarisbank 和 kreuzwerker 从那时起就开始使用 Confluence，并认为这是团队的唯一事实。新员工入职、合作伙伴的信息发生变化，甚至是危机来临时，每个人都转向 Confluence。“它是我们处理与内容相关的所有事物、与文档相关的所有事物的首选工具。我们每天在 [Confluence] 上花费几个小时，”Fabio 说。“如果你想了解这家公司的任何信息，那就去 Confluence。每个人都知道在哪里可以找到什么。”

That includes key players outside the bank, like auditors, whom the team must provide with updated records of every change made to their core product. Thanks to this living body of documentation, employees, partners, and regulators can always quickly and easily find exactly what they need.

With greater visibility and reporting, Solarisbank is more equipped than ever to make fast, smart decisions and continue to grow.

Constantin agrees. “Transparency is one of the biggest advantages [of implementing Atlassian],” he says. “Everyone is aware of the topics coming every day, so we can split the daily business up equally and stay aligned on what needs to be done. We can also measure at the end of the day if we actually achieved what we wanted to do.”

There’s no doubt Solarisbank is achieving everything they wanted to — and more. In less than three years, the team has almost quadrupled in size and far exceeded their goals for partnership growth. And this is only the beginning. Now that they have more formal processes, centralized communication, and a core set of collaboration tools, Solarisbank feels confident they can continue scaling rapidly with purpose and professionalism.

“Our company is getting bigger, and our partners are getting bigger...We were 80 people at the end of 2016. In early 2020, we were 300 and still growing,” Fabio says. “When a company grows fast like that, you have to establish standardized processes and professional systems to serve big financial players. You need to keep everything in one place and help everyone stay up to date. You need transparency so you can be efficient and make decisions faster. You need to grow fast and professionally. That’s what Atlassian is doing for us.”