TechQuartier Partners with NayaOne for the Tech & Data Lab’s Sandbox

Pictured: Karan Jain, CEO of NayaOne, and Alice Rettig, TechQuartier Managing Director.

TechQuartier is partnering with NayaOne to power the Digital Sandbox at the heart of the Tech & Data Lab. This platform, which is live this week, will soon be a place where financial institutions, startups and technology providers can test boldly before they build at scale. The platform offers a secure environment to test new technologies, data-driven applications and business models under realistic conditions before moving toward implementation, bringing NayaOne’s proven international sandbox experience to Frankfurt and Germany’s only finance-focused Reallabor. 

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Built on international sandbox experience

NayaOne has previously built and powered sandbox environments for organizations including the UK Financial Conduct Authority, Lloyds Banking Group and the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.

Its technology also supports the Czech Fintech Regulatory Sandbox and has been used in initiatives involving the World Economic Forum and the Central Bank of Ireland.

One of the closest international comparisons is the UK Financial Conduct Authority. NayaOne was selected to build and operate the FCA Digital Sandbox and has since supported the development of environments that allow financial firms to test emerging technologies, including AI, in controlled settings.

That experience is now being brought into the Tech & Data Lab and to Germany.

For TechQuartier, this is particularly relevant because the platform is designed not only to support startups, but also to integrate their technologies into the testing environment itself. Startups and scaleups can contribute solutions, datasets and infrastructure components to the Lab, giving them the opportunity to validate their technology under realistic conditions and demonstrate its value directly to financial institutions. 

At the same time, banks and other regulated organizations can evaluate emerging technologies with less integration effort and lower risk before deciding whether to move toward production.

NayaOne’s platform is designed to make exactly this kind of collaboration easier.

Test Boldly.

The Tech & Data Lab was created to tackle one of the biggest barriers to innovation in financial services: giving promising technologies a place to test boldly, prove what works and move with confidence from concept to real-world implementation. Test. Validate. Decide.

Financial institutions often face high technical, regulatory and operational hurdles when testing new solutions in production environments.

The Tech & Data Lab provides a controlled alternative.

“Too often in Germany, innovation gets stuck between idea and real-world adoption. With NayaOne, we’re building the environment to close that gap. The Tech & Data Lab gives financial institutions and technology providers a secure space to test new solutions under realistic conditions, learn quickly and make better-informed decisions before moving toward implementation. That is exactly what ‘Test Boldly’ means: creating the conditions to experiment with confidence and turn promising technology into practical applications.” - Philip Viertel, TechQuartier Innovation Lead Finance.

TechQuartier serves as the platform owner, ecosystem interface and operational lead, bringing together financial institutions, startups, technology providers and expert partners around concrete industry challenges. Within that ecosystem, NayaOne provides the Digital Sandbox layer.

Deutsche Bank is the first announced industry partner and is working with TechQuartier on an Open Finance Challenge, while Baker McKenzie supports the initiative as its official legal partner.

For more compute-intensive and production-near use cases, the Tech & Data Lab is also being expanded through the Sovereign AI Factory FrankfurtRheinMain, Polarise and NVIDIA.

Together, these elements create a testing environment in which technology, business requirements and regulatory considerations can be explored before organizations commit to full-scale implementation. 

About NayaOne 

NayaOne is the single, secure, and governed platform for technology intake, evaluation, and adoption. Choosing a vendor takes a year. Getting them into production takes another, while AI produces hundreds of new options every quarter. On NayaOne, enterprises evaluate vendors against real-world conditions, with safe data and governance built in. Teams accelerate time to market, de-risk outcomes, and reach decisions in weeks. Global banks, insurers, household names, and regulators, including the FCA, run their technology adoption on NayaOne. ————-

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