Vilja Solutions is recognized in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Retail Core Banking Systems, Europe, October 2025

Vilja has been recognized as a Niche Player, once again, in Gartner’s newly published report, Gartner Magic Quadrant for Retail Core Banking Systems, Europe, October 2025, authored by VP analysts Vittorio D’Orazio and Ali Merji.

This year the report evaluates ten vendors, compared to last year’s 15 vendors, and compares the technology providers’ different strengths and cautions. To be included in the report the vendors need at least 15 active installations and three new retail banking customers in Europe. Vilja is the only Nordic vendor mentioned in the report.

The report highlights three major strengths with Vilja being: frequent product releases & customer proximity, strong viability and sales execution.

“Being recognized by Gartner two years in a row shows the strong momentum we have built. We are the market leader in the Nordics and growing fast internationally. Our promise is clear: we deliver on time and on budget, and take full ownership of the delivery to ensure every customer’s success”, says Fredrik Ulvenholm, CEO at Vilja.

In the report Gartner identifies five key trends that are emerging and ongoing in the CBS market:

1) Composable technologies are enabling customization through components
2) Core banking is moving into the cloud
3) Business functionalities are creating differentiation between tenured and new CBS products
4) Banking ecosystems are becoming the norm
5) AI use is expanding beyond analytics and customer profiling.