Accelerating Financial Services Growth Through Cloud Transformation & AI-Ready Infrastructure

About Finansfabriken

Founded in 2025, Finansfabriken is Sweden's human-centered financial services company focused on helping small and medium enterprises (SMEs) succeed and grow. Unlike traditional banks that often reject SME loan applications, Finansfabriken opens doors where others close them.

The company provides business loans (100,000 – 5,000,000 SEK), invoice purchasing, factoring, and debt collection services specifically designed for Swedish SMEs. With headquarters in Lund and a distributed development team, Finansfabriken combines modern technology with personal service, ensuring human credit specialists handle each application rather than automated systems.

The Challenge

Finansfabriken was looking to implement a modern SME lending platform, going from manual infrastructure processes to a modern AWS managed infrastructure to gain operational efficiency without compromising their ability to serve their B2B customers in Sweden. The company realized that their existing manual deployment processes were time-consuming and constraining their development team's ability to deliver new features rapidly to Swedish SMEs.

To align with their strategic focus on scaling their human-centered lending approach, Finansfabriken was looking for a partner to help them design and deploy cloud-native infrastructure leveraging native AWS managed services. The new infrastructure needed to be secure, scalable, highly available, and compliant with Swedish/EU financial regulations while supporting their development team.

Solution

Speed and operational efficiency were critical considerations for Finansfabriken, motivating their migration from manual infrastructure processes to AWS services. Awiant built a cloud-native infrastructure on AWS to optimize Finansfabriken's environment with automated, reliable infrastructure that could scale efficiently without affecting the functionality their development team relied on.

Key Components

• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform for reusable, multi-account modules
• Secure network architecture with Amazon VPCs, AWS Transit Gateway, and defense-in-depth security controls
• Scalable compute with AWS ECS Fargate clusters, auto-scaling, and Application Load Balancers

Governance & Compliance Controls

Awiant developed preventive and detective controls using a custom Landing Zone. Service control policies and detective controls using AWS Config rules continuously monitor configurations with automated remediation. Terraform modules embed mandatory security policies during provisioning, while logging through AWS CloudTrail, Security Hub, and GuardDuty provide audit capabilities for regulatory requirements.

Security & AI-Ready Infrastructure

Awiant implemented encrypted Amazon Aurora databases for high-performance transaction processing. Finansfabriken also wanted to establish a foundation for future AI/ML capabilities to enhance their lending decision processes. This was enabled by creating a scalable, modern infrastructure foundation and establishing the multi-account architecture that would support advanced analytics and GenAI implementations for B2B banking applications.

Outcome

Adopting AWS native services with CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code, Finansfabriken can now focus on building innovative B2B lending features rather than managing infrastructure across multiple manual processes.