Sibos 2026: Volante Technologies' Dan Pilling on Payments Modernisation

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Integration remains the most significant hurdle for banks undergoing digital transformation. Dan Pilling of Volante Technologies explains at Sibos 2026 how the company is addressing this through its Studio product, while simultaneously pushing the boundaries of resilience with multi-cloud infrastructure and Stablecoin partnerships.

What is the primary challenge in payments transformation today?

According to Dan Pilling, the biggest challenge for financial institutions continues to be integration. While Volante Technologies provides a cloud-native, ISO-native, and multi-rail platform, the difficulty often lies in how that technology connects to the existing bank environment. To solve this, the company has introduced a product called Studio. This tool allows both the provider and the banks themselves to configure interfaces into their specific environments, effectively cracking the engineering challenge that typically slows down payments transformation projects.

How does Volante Technologies approach scalability and resilience?

Scalability and resilience are cited as the two most critical factors for modern payment systems. Dan Pilling notes that the Payments as a Service (PaaS) offering is designed to handle peak volumes at both the day and minute levels. To ensure maximum uptime, the company has introduced a multi-cloud strategy:

• The infrastructure is hosted across two different cloud providers.
• This provides resilience not just within a single provider, but across different cloud ecosystems.
• This approach ensures that if one provider faces an outage, the payments infrastructure remains operational.

What role do Stablecoins and AI play in the current strategy?

Innovation at the event has focused heavily on Stablecoins and Artificial Intelligence. Dan Pilling highlights a recent partnership with Circle, announced at Sibos 2026, which allows the company to offer Stablecoin capabilities to banks and their clients. This represents a move toward bringing long-discussed digital asset innovations into practical, functional fruition.

Regarding AI, the focus is on the rapid development of agentic agents within the platform. These agents are being deployed to assist with operations, specifically in areas such as automatic routing and the repair of payment messages. Beyond operational tasks, the strategy includes using AI to develop code more effectively and helping customers implement systems with greater efficiency. Dan Pilling expects a significant acceleration in these opportunities over the next 24 months.

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The move toward multi-cloud resilience marks a significant shift in how fintech providers view infrastructure. By hosting across two cloud providers, Volante Technologies is addressing the growing regulatory and operational demand for high availability in systemic payment rails. Furthermore, the introduction of Studio to empower banks to handle their own integrations suggests a trend toward self-service in complex engineering tasks, which could significantly reduce the time-to-market for new payment products. The partnership with Circle also signals that Stablecoins are moving from the periphery of finance into the core of institutional payment strategies.