Financial Services

AI & Data Solutions for Modern Financial Institutions

We help banks, fintechs, insurance companies, and financial services firms detect fraud faster, automate compliance, and modernise core systems — enabling speed and trust in equal measure.

99.2%
Fraud detection accuracy
AI detects fraud patterns rule engines miss
6→2wk
Release cycle improvement
After modernization to cloud-native
40%
Compliance effort reduction
Through automated regulatory reporting

Why Financial Services Leaders Struggle

The operational and strategic barriers holding financial services organisations back.

Sophisticated Fraud

Fraud patterns evolve faster than rule-based detection can keep up — resulting in financial losses, regulatory fines, reputational damage.

Regulatory Burden

AML, KYC, GDPR, PSD2, Basel III regulations require enormous reporting effort, diverting skilled staff from value-generating work.

Legacy System Constraints

Monolithic core systems limit product speed, prevent open banking readiness, create integration complexity with fintech partners.

Where We Create Value

Specific use cases delivering measurable results in financial services.

Real-Time Fraud Detection
99.2%
detection accuracy

Real-Time Fraud Detection

Adaptive ML models learn new fraud patterns continuously, significantly outperforming rule-based systems with 99%+ accuracy.

Regulatory Compliance Automation
40%
effort reduction

Regulatory Compliance Automation

Automate AML, KYC, GDPR, PSD2 data collection, transformation, validation, and reporting — reducing analyst hours and errors.

Core Banking Modernization
faster releases

Core Banking Modernization

Cloud-native microservices enable open banking API readiness, faster product delivery, and seamless fintech integration.

What Clients Achieve

Real-time fraud detection reducing financial losses by up to 60%
Automated regulatory reporting saving hundreds of analyst hours monthly
Faster product launches on modernised cloud-native infrastructure
Open banking API readiness for fintech partnership and embedded finance
Intelligent credit scoring using alternative data sources
Blockchain-powered smart contracts for automated settlements
Process
4–6 months to impact
Proven delivery

How We Work

1

Fraud Detection Assessment

Analyse existing fraud rules, false positive rates, transaction data quality; identify highest-value detection gaps.

2

ML Model Development

Build and train adaptive fraud detection models on historical transaction and fraud data; validate against held-out test set.

3

Regulatory Data Mapping

Map source systems to regulatory reporting requirements (AML, KYC, GDPR, Basel III); design ETL pipelines with validation rules.

4

Core System Modernization

Decompose monolithic core systems into microservices; migrate to cloud-native architecture with API gateway and CI/CD.

5

Compliance & Governance

Deploy fraud detection and regulatory reporting systems; establish model monitoring, audit logging, and regulatory sign-off.

Mid-Sized Bank: 99.2% Fraud Detection, 60% Cost Reduction
Financial Services Case Study
Financial Services · Real Results

Mid-Sized Bank: 99.2% Fraud Detection, 60% Cost Reduction

A regional bank was losing $3M annually to fraud and spending 400 analyst hours monthly on manual AML reporting. We deployed AI fraud detection to catch evolving patterns rule engines missed, and built regulatory reporting automation for GDPR, AML, KYC. Within 4 months: fraud detection improved from 85% to 99.2%, false positives dropped 70%, and compliance reporting effort fell 60%.

99.2%
Fraud detection accuracy
60%
Compliance cost reduction
$2.8M
Annual savings
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Common Questions

Industry-specific insights for financial services leaders.

Our AI fraud detection models consistently achieve 99%+ accuracy on client production data — compared to 85–90% for well-maintained rule-based systems. More importantly, AI dramatically reduces false positive rates (legitimate transactions incorrectly flagged as fraud), which is a major cost driver in financial services. Rule-based systems typically generate 50–200× more false positives than well-tuned ML models. AI also detects novel fraud patterns that rule engines miss entirely, since rules can only catch fraud that has been seen before.

Our regulatory data platforms are designed for extensibility across frameworks. We have built reporting automation for AML/CTF (FinCEN, FATF), KYC/CDD, GDPR (Article 30 records of processing, breach notification), PSD2 (transaction monitoring, strong customer authentication), Basel III/IV (capital adequacy, LCR, NSFR), IFRS 9 (expected credit loss provisioning), and various jurisdiction-specific reporting requirements. The platform is built on a flexible data model that allows new reporting requirements to be added as frameworks evolve.

We use the Strangler Fig migration pattern — building cloud-native services in parallel with the legacy core, redirecting individual business capabilities one at a time as they are validated in production. This approach has zero forced downtime and allows rollback at any granular step. For core banking specifically, we typically start with peripheral services (notifications, document management, reporting) before migrating core transactional capabilities, giving teams time to build confidence in the new architecture before migrating the highest-risk components.

A focused fraud detection model deployment typically takes 8–12 weeks from data assessment to production. A regulatory reporting automation platform for 2–3 frameworks runs 10–16 weeks. Full core banking modernisation is an 8–18 month programme depending on system complexity, number of products, and regulatory dependencies. We provide a bounded estimate after a two-week discovery sprint — so you have full scope clarity before committing to the full programme.

Financial data requires the highest security standards, which we deliver without exception. We implement PCI-DSS compliance for payment card data, SOC 2 Type II controls for operational security, end-to-end encryption for all data in transit and at rest, tokenisation for sensitive financial identifiers, and immutable audit logs for all data access events. All work is performed within your regulated cloud environment (on-premises, or on AWS/Azure/GCP regions matching your data residency requirements). Team members undergo background checks and sign comprehensive NDAs before any data access.

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