Lithuania – April 20, 2025 – Xpert Digital, a global leader in digital banking transformation, is proud to announce its momentous collaboration with Artea Bank (formerly Šiaulių Bankas), Lithuania’s largest domestically-owned financial institution. This strategic alliance marks Xpert Digital’s official entry into the European financial ecosystem and signifies a major step forward in redefining digital banking for customers and businesses across the continent.
Artea Bank, recognized for its consistent focus on customer experience and innovation, has set an ambitious path to advance its digital footprint. The bank is already well regarded for its reliability and local expertise, and is now gearing up to match that legacy with a future-ready digital offering. With this strategic collaboration, Artea will leverage Xpert Digital’s deep structural and proven capabilities to deliver a transformative digital experience across Retail Banking, SME Banking, and Wealth Management on the world’s most modern, agile, and scalable Temenos Digital banking platform.
Customers of Artea Bank will benefit from sleek and secure mobile and web platforms, designed to provide intuitive self-service banking. For retail users, this means seamless access to banking services such as customer onboarding, accessing accounts and card management, transfer money, manage cash deposits, applying for loans and e-signing, personalized insights with faster user interactions. For SME customers, the digital channel will enable enhanced customer onboarding, swift login, accounts and cards, transfers and deposits, loan origination and e-signing, real-time approvals, and remote business banking operations. Wealth Management clients, meanwhile, will enjoy smarter investment dashboards, guided advisory, and consolidated portfolio views, right at their fingertips.
This engagement with Artea is not just about implementing technology; it’s about transforming a banking experience into a seamless, customer-centric journey that adapts to the evolving needs of European customers. Xpert Digital brings its decade-long experience in executing digital strategies for leading banks across Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and now Europe.
Working with Xpert Digital gives us the edge we need to accelerate innovation while staying true to our commitment to customer-centricity. Together, we are introducing transformative capabilities that will redefine digital banking across Europe. We look forward to building a robust digital banking ecosystem that brings lasting value to our clients in retail, SME, and wealth sectors.
Andrius Kamarauskas
Director of Strategic Technologies Development Department at Artea Bank
Our entry into Europe begins with a bank that is already ahead of the curve when it comes to embracing digital banking. Artea is not just another client for Xpert Digital; it’s a symbol of what’s possible when trust, vision, and excellence come together. We are honored to power their digital transformation journey and excited to spearhead their end-to-end digital customer experiences across Lithuania and beyond.
Shazia Hammad
CEO at Xpert Digital
This collaboration is a major milestone for Xpert Digital, opening the doors to new partnerships in the European Union. Artea’s decision to work with Xpert Digital reflects a growing market trust in the company’s ability to deliver at scale, with speed, security, and customer empathy at its core. This expansion aligns perfectly with Xpert Digital’s long-term vision of becoming the most trusted digital transformation partner for the banks globally.
About Xpert Digital (XD)
Xpert Digital (XD) is the most successful Temenos Digital partner with expertise in Loans, Corporate, Business and Retail Banking. XD has created world’s 1st and only Temenos Digital Accelerator Factory that has a strong track record of turbocharging implementation efforts to get to market in the fastest time possible. Our leadership team has over 100 years banking, technology and payments experience so we can deliver the depth and breadth of expertise to drive success out of the box (OOTB).
With XD’s global presence, our structural expertise, 200+ trained practitioners with proven track record of 49+ projects and 13 model banks created, XD has enabled over 200 million digital customers globally. XD offers on-site and offshore solutions to its global clientele through a 220+ team, operating from its headquarters in Dubai, UAE with regional offices in Oman, Pakistan, Lithuania, and Singapore.
XD’s portfolio includes transformative projects in Africa, Middle East, Asia and we now have teams on the ground scaling in Europe, LATAM and North America. Enhancing the banks’ digital banking capabilities through innovative solutions, Xpert Digital has received more Awards and Recognitions than we can keep track of.
Driven by customer-first, innovation and state-of-the-art digital banking solutions, XD is the catalyst you want and need as your partner.
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About Artea Bank
Established in 1992, Artea Bank is the fourth largest bank in Lithuania, a stable and consistently growing financial partner. Artea’s strategy is based on the strong relationship between the bank and its clients, openness and flexibility by striving to emphasize their uniqueness. With the largest network of customer service units in the country, they put a lot of emphasis on human connection. Focusing on innovation and growth, Artea Bank is dedicated to delivering value and excellent customer experiences.
For more information https://www.artea.lt/en/
