Segmenting the Savings Market and Building Long-Term Roadmap Visibility

At The Fintech Show, the dialogue around modern banking infrastructure highlighted the critical importance of a core engine that evolves in lockstep with shifting industry trends. Karishma Jaycee, Customer Success Manager at Mambu, explained that the company brings together deep knowledge of its customers, the market, and its core proposition to deliver the exact support required to launch new financial products. Whether an institution is executing a brownfield transformation by slowly migrating away from legacy frameworks, or launching a greenfield initiative to spin up a brand-new digital offering, a flexible infrastructure is essential. Mambu itself continues to expand its own capabilities, moving from an initial focus on savings and lending into supporting payments, thereby allowing financial institutions to manage the full business lifecycle in core banking end to end.

This technical adaptability enables banks to look beneath the surface of massive sectors, such as the UK household savings market, and effectively recognize distinctive customer cohorts. Derek Sprawling, Savings Director at Paragon Bank, noted that consumer behaviors in this space can be highly polarized, requiring targeted propositions rather than a single, one-size-fits-all approach. To cover all bases, Paragon has strategically positioned three distinct franchises: a deposit aggregators partnership hosted on Mambu, a traditional brand for proactive savers, and the digital-first “Spring” brand tailored for a younger audience.

For the newly launched Spring brand, the focus over the coming year is to capture a massive market opportunity by driving awareness and capitalizing on growing customer advocacy. Sprawling outlined a strategic product development roadmap centered on three steps: building market awareness, increasing user engagement with current features—such as real-time current account linking for personal cash flow optimization—and gradually extending the functionality and product range. As consumers take their first step away from stagnant current accounts and realize how easy digital savings can be, the bank intends to expand its offering to support them through every future stage of their financial journey.

Executing this long-term strategy requires an immense amount of institutional trust and collaborative planning. Imogen Gurney, Group Transformation Director at Paragon Bank, highlighted that as an early adopter of Mambu, the mutual trust and growth shared between both organizations has been a cornerstone of their digital journey. Having direct line of sight into Mambu’s technology roadmap and learning from the feedback of peer financial institutions has been highly confidence-inspiring for the bank’s leadership team. This transparency provides the firm validation needed to secure internal investment and board funding for major projects. With a reliable and proven partner in place, stakeholders are far more ready to back the technology route, giving Paragon the organizational confidence to prepare a pipeline of future transformative changes alongside Mambu.

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Key Highlights from the Fintech Show:

• Flexible Transformation Support: Jaycee emphasizes Mambu’s capacity to support both complex brownfield legacy migrations and rapid greenfield product launches.

• An Expanding Technical Roadmap: How core banking infrastructure is evolving from traditional savings and lending into payments to cover the end-to-end financial lifecycle.

• Segmenting the Savings Market: Sprawling breaks down Paragon’s three-pronged franchise approach to address polarized behaviors across aggregators, proactive savers, and digital-first audiences.

• Frictionless Cash Flow Optimization: A look at Spring’s real-time link to traditional current accounts, allowing users to effortlessly optimize their personal capital.

• A Staged Expansion Plan: The strategic roadmap for Spring focused on increasing brand awareness, driving current feature usage, and steadily broadening the product ecosystem.

• Securing Investment Through Trust: Gurney explains how visibility into a vendor’s product roadmap builds the organizational confidence required to win funding for enterprise-wide changes.