Case Study: FidorTecS AG achieves rapid, scalable Web 2.0 banking and instant global payments with Oracle MySQL Enterprise Edition

FidorTecS Empowers Companies Across All Industries to Offer Innovative, Web 2.0-Based Banking and Payment Solutions

FidorTecS AG, a Munich‑based software subsidiary of Fidor Bank, develops Web 2.0‑based banking and payment platforms that enable banks and companies to offer mobile, social, and transparent financial services (peer‑to‑peer lending, crowdfunding, payments, etc.). The company faced the challenge of delivering a cost‑effective, high‑performance, and secure platform that could scale to major banks, support startups in its smart‑app ecosystem, accelerate time‑to‑market, and detect and remediate security and performance issues before they impacted customers.

FidorTecS based its platform on MySQL Enterprise Edition 5.5 with Oracle Premier Support and MySQL Enterprise Monitor, leveraging features such as the MySQL Thread Pool for scalability. The solution shortened environment deployment from hours to minutes, cut international transfer times from days to seconds, delivered transaction safety and high availability for millions of daily transactions, enabled white‑label and startup services without full core‑banking deployments, and provided 24/7 monitoring—helping the company accelerate rollouts and reach breakeven ahead of schedule.

FidorTecS AG

Andreas Hellwig

CIO