Athens, Greece 30 March — Paymentology, the leading global issuer-processor, is supporting Snappi as the Greek digital bank moves beyond launch into a new phase focused on product depth, operational scale and regulatory-ready platform maturity.
Snappi has emerged as one of Europe’s newest fully regulated digital banking entrants. The company secured a universal banking licence from the European Central Bank in 2024, enabling it to offer a full range of banking services including deposits and lending.
It then launched publicly in 2025 as Greece’s first ECB-licensed neobank, offering mobile onboarding, IBAN accounts, virtual and physical cards, SEPA transfers and everyday banking services through a fully digital experience.
As the bank moves beyond go-live, its focus has shifted to scaling product capabilities, localisation and customer engagement, including new partnerships, ecosystem initiatives and the opening of physical engagement spaces such as Snappi Hub alongside its digital offering. The Athens-based hub acts as a community space dedicated to financial literacy, events and conversations around financial wellbeing.
Snappi has also continued its product offering and ecosystem partnerships. The bank recently launched its first Snappi Savings Account. At the same time, Snappi has announced its Fintech & AI Lab, a new platform designed to bridge academia and entrepreneurship and place Greece at the forefront of AI-powered and conversational banking.
Gabriella Kindert, CEO of Snappi said: “Our ambition with Snappi is to build a digital bank that is simple, transparent and built around real life. As we expand our product offering, from everyday banking to savings and ecosystem partnerships, having scalable, modern infrastructure is essential to delivering the experience customers expect while meeting the highest regulatory standards.”
Snappi’s Chief Operating Officer, Efi Chatziantoniou, also echoed this philosophy during a recent episode of Pamentology’s Issuer Academy podcast, highlighting that trust has been a non-negotiable principle since the bank’s earliest development: the team’s priority has been “listening to what customers need and building around that” ensuring simplicity and reliability remain central to the platform.
Paymentology’s cloud-first issuer-processing infrastructure is supporting Snappi’s growth by enabling faster rollout of card and payment products, delivering real-time processing capabilities, strengthening operational resilience as adoption grows, and ensuring readiness for evolving EU and national regulatory requirements.
Julie Sutton, Head of Growth Europe at Paymentology: “Launching a digital bank is one milestone. Scaling it into a mature, regulated platform is another entirely. Snappi represents a new generation of European digital banks, built licensing-first, infrastructure-first, and designed to evolve quickly once live.”
Snappi reflects a wider industry pattern: digital banks launching with full regulatory permissions from day one and investing early in scalable infrastructure to support growth beyond initial customer acquisition. The bank was designed as a mobile-first institution combining fintech usability with the security of an EU-regulated entity — signalling a structural shift in how new banks are being built across Europe.