Festina Finance

Festina Finance builds a modular, cloud-native platform for life and pension policy administration, capital management and money flows. It is configurable with low-code tooling and can support defined contribution, collective defined contribution and defined benefit products, as well as individual policies and employer pension schemes. The company also offers Festina Advisor, a suite for financial advice that calculates household budgets, uses mathematical optimisation and AI, and provides mobile apps for end customers and web screens for advisers.

Its customers are large financial institutions, including pension providers, banks and building societies. Referenced clients include APG, which took two Dutch pension funds with more than 200,000 participants onto the Festina Life and Pension platform in January 2025; PensionDanmark; SDC, a Nordic IT services provider serving more than 120 banks; and Hinckley & Rugby Building Society. Clients license the platform, and AZL has signed a long-term license agreement with the company.

Festina Finance was founded in 2016 and is registered in London, where it is headquartered. The company reports ISAE 3000A and ISO 27001 compliance for its standard platform and implementation projects, and an evaluation by Deloitte against ISO 25010 with a score of 4.8 out of 5. It has announced a growth investment of €25+ million from Birchway Capital to accelerate European expansion, a 20% stake acquired by Netcompany, and the appointment of Liam McGrath as UK CEO.

Product: Festina Life and Pension Platform for policy administration and pensions, and Festina Advisor for financial advice.