Sector engineering
Finance
High-availability transactional systems and operational intelligence engineered for regulated finance, payments, and capital-market operations.
- PCI DSS
- UK GDPR
- High-availability
02 — Engineering practice
How we engineer for this sector.
Financial systems are judged on three axes simultaneously: availability, integrity, and auditability. We engineer the platforms behind payments, treasury, capital markets, and operational risk against measurable reliability targets — not aspirational ones.
Our practice spans ledger architectures, integrations with UK payment rails — Faster Payments, Bacs, CHAPS, Open Banking — and SWIFT, reconciliation engines, and the operational analytics that treasury and finance functions actually plan against. Every component is engineered for idempotency, replayability, and the audit trail regulators expect to inspect.
Compliance is engineered into the deployment pipeline, not bolted onto the platform. Data residency, encryption posture, access governance, and change control are continuous-compliance concerns — instrumented, observed, and reported on the cadence your regulator and auditor demand.
03 — Engineering surface
The technologies behind this sector practice.
A selection of the platforms, standards, and tools our principals engineer with in this sector.
Regulatory Standards
- PCI DSS
- FCA
- ISO 20022
- UK GDPR
Payment Rails
- Faster Payments
- Bacs
- CHAPS
- Open Banking
- SWIFT gpi
Platform Backbone
- PostgreSQL
- Kafka
- Event sourcing
- Temporal
- OpenTelemetry
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