U.K.-based, cloud native, core banking technology provider Thought Machine has just secured Series B funding that will help the U.K.-based company expand into the Asia-Pacific. The $83 million raised this week, courtesy of a round featuring all of the company’s existing investors, takes the firm’s total capital to more than $106 million.

Valued at $143 million at the time of its Series A round in 2014, Thought Machine is currently believed to be worth between $220 million and $320 million.

Thought Machine founder and CEO Paul Taylor said that the funding had arrived at a “pivotal stage” in the company’s development, citing both “healthy” revenues and “huge” customer demand. “As well as international expansion we will put further investment into our core technology,” Taylor said, “ensuring that banks will always have the best possible cloud native platform, and allow them to keep up with technology breakthroughs in the future which bring agility, security, resilience, and good economics.”

An alum of European fintech conference, the company demonstrated its core banking solution, Vault, at FinovateEurope 2018 . With this technology, Thought Machine enables both incumbent and challenger banks to operate and compete with a cloud-based offering of their own. Vault offers institutions checking and savings accounts, well as credit cards, loans, and mortgage financing.

Last fall Thought Machine announced a partnership with Standard Chartered’s new digital bank in Hong Kong, and unveiled a new collaboration with Swedish financial group, SEB. Both deals will feature deployment of Thought Machine’s Vault platform.

After expansion to Australia and Japan, Thought Machine plans to go live in the United States later this year.

Lloyds Banking Group has taken a 10% stake in core banking technology provider Thought Machine. The investment of $14.4 million (£11 million) represents the lion’s share of the company’s $23.6 million Series A round (£18 million) and is part of a strategic partnership that will help Lloyds reach its digital transformation goals.

Lloyds will leverage Thought Machine’s Vault solution, a cloud-based, next generation core banking platform to provide its customers with more personalized solutions, as well as accelerating the development cycles for additional digital banking additions. Lloyds noted in a press release that not only has it “completed extensive testing and proofs of concept” with Thought Machine, but also that the firm plans to continue helping develop Vault’s capabilities.

Thought Machine CEO and founder Paul Taylor and Chief of Sales & Marketing Travers Clarke-Walker demonstrating Vault at FinovateEurope 2018.

“A key part of our recently launched three-year strategic plan is applying technology innovation to meet our customers’ evolving needs,” Lloyds Group Director for Transformation Zak Mian explained. “I’m really excited to work with the Thought Machine team to explore ways to simplify and enhance our IT architecture and (help) on our journey to make banking easy and simple for customers.”

Founded in 2014 and headquartered in London, U.K., Thought Machine demonstrated Vault at FinovateEurope earlier this year. The flexible, end-to-end, cloud-based platform comes with a full suite of banking solutions including current accounts, loans, savings, mortgages, and credit cards – all delivered via Vault’s system of smart contracts. Driven by what Thought Machine founder and CEO Paul Taylor called a reaction to “the horror of the legacy IT systems” used by banks, Thought Machine and its team of 60 are dedicated to helping banks provide their customers with the “quality and richness of service they deserve.”

“We are delighted to announce this partnership with Lloyds,” Taylor said. “Lloyds has shown a deep commitment to embrace the opportunities that new technologies can bring in improving customers’ banking experience and it is a pleasure to take this partnership forward.”