Case Study: Swedbank achieves faster, lower-risk software releases with Split feature flags

Swedbank Speeds Up Software Releases with Feature Flags

Swedbank, a major European bank serving 7.3 million private and 615,000 corporate customers across online and mobile banking, payments, insurance and loans, needed to speed software delivery while reducing release risk and improving developer experience. Coordinating changes across many front‑end, back‑end and mobile teams — and sustaining fast responses during COVID‑19 restricted change periods — made safer, more automated releases a priority.

Swedbank adopted Split feature flags across dozens of teams (40+ using Split) to decouple deployments from feature releases, enable canary and percentage rollouts, and automate continuous delivery. The change increased developer confidence and velocity, tripled front‑end release cadence, supported safer monthly back‑end releases, and made it easier to test in production and respond quickly to customer needs.

Swedbank

Markus Backman

Head Architect of Digital Banking