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We are excited to share some fantastic news – one of our software delivery teams has been recognised as the Dev Team of the Year at the 2023 Build Stuff Tech Awards! The Winning Team The decorated team consists of Donatas Zubavičius, Jevgenij Teodorovič, Mindaugas Urbontaitis, Edvinas Zabita, Edvardas Skulskis, and is led by Team Lead Sandra Giedraitiene. This group… read more →

2022 marked a period of substantial growth and increasing influence in the financial services sector for Metasite. Financially, Metasite attained 33% revenue growth compared to 2021. The company owes 78% of 2022 revenues to serving prominent financial industry clients across the UK and Switzerland markets. The combined market capitalization of these financial institutions we worked with totalled $87 billion last… read more →

Metasite, a boutique technology firm providing digital product development, legacy modernisation and technology consulting services to global financial industry clients, grew its turnover by 42 percent during H1 2022 compared to the same period last year. With the company’s mid-market and enterprise client base showing no signs of scaling down their tech and digitalisation investments despite the current economic headwinds,… read more →

Due to the current European security situation, the necessity for energy security is evident more than ever. Urgent efforts are needed to effectively replace Europe’s reliance on imported fossil fuels. Energy optimisation and transition to sustainable energy sources will help make Europe self-sufficient and energy independent. This is accomplished through increasing the use of sustainable energy sources, electric transportation, sustainable… read more →

Challenges of the transition in the industrial sector Sustainability and the transition to a low-carbon, more resource-efficient, and circular economy are key in ensuring the long-term competitiveness of the EU economy. The industry represents the most energy-intensive sector: steel, cement, and manufacturing productions account for 21% of human emission – one and a half times as much as all the… read more →

The recently launched PEDAL coordinated Sustainable Energy Investing and Financing Activation (SEIFA) EU-funded project will create incentives for private investors to finance a deep renovation of industrial plants, energy supply facilities and energy service companies. Industrial Focus Project’s main objective in this respect is to establish a Fund that will invest with a focus on industrial companies. Among them there… read more →

In March 2020, the European Commission laid the foundations for “A new Industrial Strategy for Europe” underpinning the role of Industry in the transformation towards a carbon-neutral economy. The industry accounts for 51% of the total Green House Gas emissions. It has to reduce its carbon footprint and at the same time accelerate the sustainable transition by providing affordable and… read more →

Spain-based Verse, a mobile P2P payments provider, wanted to seize an opportunity to move quickly on the P2P payments scene to allow its users to instantly send money to any eurozone country – without the need for Verse to rely on an intermediary to execute payments. Metasite SEPA Payments Plug-In Application allowed Verse to access SEPA payments by connecting their… read more →

We’re happy to announce that our SEPA Payments Plug-In Application page is now live!  If you are a challenger bank, e-money institution (EMI) or payment service provider (PSP) looking to access SEPA payments by connecting your core system to the Bank of Lithuania’s CENTROlink payment system, see our SEPA Payments Plug-In Application. The application is a fully customisable middleware engineered… read more →

Webinar organised as part of Amsterdam Fintech Week 2020 Date: 24 September 2020 Time: 10 – 11 AM BST (London) / 11 AM – 12 PM GMT+2 (Amsterdam) RSVP: Registration on Eventbrite Whether you are a fintech startup founder looking to build your first MVP, or a bank CTO tasked with updating a complex ecosystem of corporate platforms and applications, you want your software developers… read more →

“Though the élite that gets sneered at, by Trumpites and neo-Marxists alike, is composed of philosophers and professors and journalists, the actual élite of modern societies is composed of engineers, mechanics, and artisans—masters of reality, not big thinkers.” – Adam Gopnik, New Yorker

Metasite-sponsored AI Camp, the inaugural Artificial Intelligence micro conference and hackathon will be taking place at the Vilnius Tech Park on April 7–9, bringing together well over a hundred AI researchers, ML algorithm developers, data scientists, software engineers, product designers and entrepreneurs to listen to inspiring speakers, attend AI workshops and hack machine learning models over the weekend.

On February 16, 2017 at Digital Integration in Wealth Management 2017 conference and exhibition in London Metasite announced advance availability of Metasite Drupal for Financial Institutions, a distribution of the world’s most popular enterprise grade open source web content management platform tailored for the financial services industry. The announcement was made at the end of Mr. Kirvaitis’ talk ‘The Big… read more →

Metasite chairman Aldas Kirvaitis will be delivering a talk on the pros and cons of using open source-based digital experience management platforms in the financial services industry at Digital Integration in Wealth Management 2017 conference and exhibition taking place in London, 15th-16th February 2017. Metasite will also have a stand in the exhibitor area for the entire duration of the… read more →

Metasite will be exhibiting at the upcoming OpsTech FS 2016, a conference on operations and technology in financial services hosted by Marketforce on 16 June 2016 in London. Event Date: 16/06/16 / Event Location: Marriott Grosvenor Square, London Visit us at our stand where we will be showcasing our innovative service offerings and client case studies. Our colleagues will be… read more →

Software is eating the world, as Marc Andreessen has famously proclaimed – and so the future belongs to hackers, entrepreneurs and hacker-entrepreneurs! Hence at Metasite we are proud to be supporting and sponsoring the next Hacker Games, a great weekend event that will pool eager designers, software developers, hardware engineers, UX masters, aspiring marketers and business developers into a confined… read more →

Full video of Metasite founder Aldas Kirvaitis’ talk “What keeps me up at night: Half-baked strategies for corporate and individual survival / winning in an unevenly accelerating world” …Grab the popcorn, turn up the volume, turn on HD and enjoy the blazing fast 95-slide ride! Includes Q&A with Alex Gibb and 2 minute interviews with lawyer Laimonas Markauskas, architect Sigita… read more →

Being a team of engineers, analysts, designers and project managers serving superdemanding clients across Europe and beyond, we practice creative problem solving on a daily basis and always strive to develop solutions that, aside from helping our clients achieve their objectives, improve the quality of life for every one of us through technology and design. So it shouldn’t come as… read more →

The world faced many challenges in 2015. But in so many ways it was a great year too, even if CNN headlines did make one feel differently at times. We wish all of our clients, partners and acquaintances Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year – and invite each of you to spend a few minutes taking a look back… read more →

Even though I knew about value objects for a long time, it was only recently that I decided to get my hands dirty and test their full potential. Interestingly, none of the big projects I have worked on before utilized this simple but incredibly useful concept. Moreover, most of the developers I happened to work with never used value objects in their practice too.

In 2003 Metasite research team released the first Baltic E-Banking report – an analytical research study aimed at analyzing, evaluating and benchmarking the e-service offerings of every retail bank present in the Baltic region. The 280 pages thick, 9000+ datapoints strong annual report quickly turned into a de-facto regional yardstick used by Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian banks to benchmark themselves… read more →

Metasite has completed the launch of RIMI Baltic shopper self-service kiosk terminals in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. The terminals are available in more than one hundred major RIMI stores across the Baltics. The self-service terminals greatly expand the benefits available to My RIMI loyalty card holders: by swiping their loyalty cards at an in-store terminal they get personalized offers with… read more →

This step-by-step tutorial will teach you how to test paper prototypes (wireframes) of mobile websites with an Iphone made of paper. It’s simple, quick, relatively realistic and adds a lot of fun to testing sessions. Things, files and devices needed For your convenience please download: iPhone template (.doc) Template for making paper wireframes (.doc) You can make these files yourself,… read more →

Metasite developed and launched a Direct Delivery platform for Bite Group’s mobile telecommunications operators in Lithuania and Latvia. The Direct Delivery platform fully automates the MNOs’ sales processes starting from sales offer generation to mobile number migration from another mobile operator to subscriber activation. The new platform makes the sales process transparent and fully controllable as all the sales process… read more →

VILNIUS, September 23, 2010 – Findings of the 2010 Baltic E-Banking Report, a annual study examining and benchmarking the e-banking services offered to residential customers by all Baltic retail banks were presented to the public today by Metasite. As usual, the full version of the 300+ pages report is offered to banks, academic institutions, research organizations and other interested parties… read more →

VILNIUS, 1 June 2010 – Metasite started implementation of the E-banking services development in selected foreign markets research project, No. S-VP2-2.1-ŪM-04-K-01-488. The project is partly funded by the European Regional Development Fund under the EU Structural Funds programme Economic Growth, 2nd Priority ‘Increasing Business Productivity and Improving Environment for Business’, Measure No. VP2-2.1-ŪM-04-K ‘New Opportunities’.

VILNIUS, 7 June 2010 – Metasite designed, developed and launched a fully-featured car parts e-commerce solution for Krasta Auto, the official representative of BMW AG in Lithuania. Key features of the solution include: Extremely usable search tools, making it possible to find suitable replacement parts using automotive parts nomenclature (folders) (suspension, body work, engine etc.) Integration with replacement parts visual… read more →

RIGA, Latvia, 12 October 2009 – Findings of the Baltic E-Banking Report 2009, an annual study examining e-banking services offered by Baltic banks to residential customers, were presented by Metasite during the 15th Baltic Financial Forum in Riga. Evaluation of smartphone-enabled mobile banking experience was introduced into the long-running study this year. A summary of the report’s findings is available… read more →

VILNIUS, October 7, 2009 – Metasite developed and launched a new online customer portal AB Rytų skirstomieji tinklai (RST), one of the two largest electricity distributors in the country. The new customer portal is accessible at www.rst.lt. The scope of the project included development and implementation of a next generation content management system that was also integrated with RST’s internal… read more →

VILNIUS, September 9, 2009 – Metasite developed and launched a online subscriber self-care platform for a Brussels-based MVNE/MVNO. The self-care platform enables prepaid customers to top-up their accounts, view account balances and detailed usage and payments statistics, manage tariff plans and services, view promotions and perform other mobile account managements tasks online. The scope of Metasite-supplied solution covers design, development,… read more →