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Knowit and Bottomline Partner up to Bring Innovative Solutions to the Nordic Market
Stockholm, Sweden - Knowit, a leading provider of digital services to banks and businesses in the Nordic region, announced a strategic partnership today with Bottomline, a global provider of fintech solutions for business payments and financial messaging.
The partnership combines Knowit's strong local presence and system integration expertise in the Nordic market with Bottomline's wide range of capabilities and international experience in payments, messaging and connectivity.
As a consultancy organization with a unique combination of IT, software, design, and management competence, Knowit’s heart is in digital transformation projects. All fields of expertise converge in helping to source, develop and implement innovative solutions for its clients. Complementing this capability, Bottomline offers a SaaS-based API-enabled platform to help banks and non-banking financial institutions process payments, securities, and financial messaging.
"We are excited to partner with Bottomline to bring innovative connectivity to banks, non-banking financial institutions (NBFIs), and Payment Service Providers (PSPs) in the Nordic market,"
says Rune Ivarsflaten, Head of Dploy, a Fintech solution from Knowit.
"Our role as Bottomline's integration partner in the Nordics will allow us to provide our customers with seamless integration of Bottomline's solutions and services. This combination provides our customers with the best of both worlds - global capabilities and local understanding,"
says Espen Vindegg, Partner Integration Manager at Dploy.
"We are pleased to partner with Knowit – being a Nordic powerhouse for digital solutions as they say. By integrating with our software, Knowit will play a vital role in giving financial institutions a single point of access to multiple payment networks. This partnership helps us extend our footprint into the Nordics, offering organizations the local knowledge and support they need to be successful."
says Vitus Rotzer, CRO of Financial Messaging for Bottomline.
Building on each other’s strengths, this partnership creates the perfect solution for Nordic banks looking to leverage multiple domestic and cross-border payment networks and schemes with success.
About Knowit
We are digitalization consultants and a Nordic powerhouse for the digital business models of the future. Our vision is to create a sustainable and humane society through digitalization and innovation. Knowit supports its clients in the digital transformation and stands out among other consultancy firms through its decentralized organization and agile work methods in client assignments. The operations are divided into four business areas – Solutions, Experience, Connectivity, and Insight – which offer services in bespoke system development, digital customer experiences, the internet of things, cloud, cybersecurity, and management consultancy. Competences from several business areas are often combined in client projects.
Knowit was founded in 1990 and has more than 4,000 employees, mainly in the Nordic countries, but also in operations in Germany and Poland. Knowit AB (publ) has been listed on the stock market since 1997 and is currently listed on Nasdaq OMX Stockholm Mid Cap. For more information about Knowit, please visit knowit.eu.
About Bottomline
Bottomline makes business payments simple, smart and secure for businesses and financial institutions, of all sizes, all over the world. More than 10,000 corporate customers, 1,400 commercial and business banks, including 15 of the top 25 global banks, rely on our industry-recognized payment and software platforms to accelerate digital transformation in a complex world of business payments and financial management.
Bottomline solutions touch customers and payments in 92 countries across six continents. Our teams serve the world from primary locations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Israel, India, Australia and Singapore. Bottomline is a portfolio company of Thoma Bravo, a highly respected software-centric private equity firm with $122 billion in assets under management. For more information visit www.bottomline.com.
Bottomline is a registered trademark of Bottomline Technologies, Inc.
For more information about the partnership, please contact:
Knowit: Rune Ivarsflaten at rune.ivarsflaten@knowit.no
Bottomline: John Stevens or Jacqueline Powell at pr@bottomline.com