Banking & Fintech Solutions

Digital banking and payment systems built to a regulator standard — Open Banking and PSD2, core banking integration, payment rails, limits and balances, and multi-factor authentication.

What this covers

Most software can be corrected after launch. Payment and banking software cannot: a limit applied twice, a balance read from the wrong source, or a consent flow that misses a step is a regulatory finding and a customer complaint at the same time. So the effort is front-loaded into specification and assurance — agreeing what each rule means, who owns it and how it will be evidenced before anything is coded. We build the services and interfaces behind retail and corporate banking, integrate the core banking system and payment rails beneath them, and deliberately keep one implementation of each business rule so that a change to a limit or a fee applies everywhere at once. Where a bank or an auditor will ask a question in two years, we write the answer down now.

  • One implementation of each business rule, so limits and fees cannot drift apart
  • Consent, SCA and audit evidence designed in, not reconstructed afterwards
  • Built and integrated on the core banking and payment interfaces you are already committed to

Capabilities

The specifics, rather than the adjectives.

Open Banking and PSD2

PSD2 standard APIs, Strong Customer Authentication, consent handling, and the JWT and middleware layer in front of them — implemented to the Berlin Group specification, where the consent and SCA flows are the difference between a compliant interface and a failed assessment.

Core banking integration

Temenos, Oracle Flexcube and comparable cores, over the SOAP and REST interfaces they actually expose rather than an idealised version of them. Including what decides reliability in production: session and connection handling, idempotency, retry behaviour, and reconciling what your system believes against what the core recorded.

Payments, wallets and transfers

Domestic and international transfers, wallet top-ups, biller payments and remittance partners such as Western Union. Every rail carries its own failure modes, cut-off times and reversal rules, and those are designed for explicitly rather than discovered during a settlement window.

Cheque truncation and clearing

Image-based cheque clearing — capture and validation, the clearing file, and the reconciliation that proves what was presented against what was actually settled. The kind of flow where a silent mismatch is discovered by an auditor rather than an alert, so the checks are built in from the start.

Limits and balances frameworks

System, user, product, service and daily or monthly limits, with the balance and available-balance logic underneath them. Deceptively hard: most defects in this area come from two components calculating the same limit differently, so each rule gets a single owner and tests that prove it.

Multi-factor authentication and identity

OTP, hardware and soft tokens, and vendor-specific schemes, wired into the transaction path rather than only the login screen. Step-up authentication on the operations that genuinely need it — a transfer, a limit change, adding a payee — so friction lands where the risk is instead of on every page.

Conversational and WhatsApp banking

Balances, mini-statements, card block and unblock through WhatsApp and chat, built on the official Business Platform rather than an unofficial library that risks the number being blocked. With an explicit escalation path to a human and a written statement of what the channel will not do.

Omnichannel delivery

Retail and corporate internet banking, mobile apps and the internal administration console, sharing one set of services rather than three implementations of the same rule. That is what makes a change to a limit, a fee or an approval step take effect everywhere at once.

What you get

A concrete list of outputs. If something here is not relevant to your project, it comes out of the scope and the price — we would rather agree that in writing now.

  • Domain and integration analysis against the banking interfaces you must use
  • PSD2 and Open Banking API implementation, with SCA and consent flows
  • Core banking integration with reconciliation and defined failure behaviour
  • Payment rail integration: transfers, wallets, billers and remittance partners
  • Limits, balances and product-rule configuration with a single owner per rule
  • MFA integration and step-up authentication on sensitive operations
  • Retail, corporate and administration front ends sharing one service layer
  • Test evidence for the flows an auditor or regulator will ask about
  • Deployment and environment setup to your security requirements
  • Handover documentation covering integration contracts and their limits

How it runs

Five steps. You always know which one you are in.

  1. 01

    Regulation and domain

    What the regulation actually requires, what the core banking system will and will not do, and who owns each business rule. The document that comes out of this is the one that survives the audit.

  2. 02

    Integration design

    Interfaces, contracts, error and reversal behaviour, and the reconciliation strategy — agreed before code, because the cost of changing a payment flow after it is live is measured in customer impact.

  3. 03

    Vertical slices

    One flow end to end through every layer — UI, service, core banking, back again — before the pattern is repeated. Proves the hard integration works before it is replicated across twenty screens.

  4. 04

    Assurance

    Test evidence for the paths a regulator will ask about: limits, reversals, SCA, consent, duplicate submission and reconciliation. Written to be handed to an auditor, not just to a developer.

  5. 05

    Rollout and handover

    Staged release with production monitoring on the transaction paths, documentation of every integration contract, and knowledge transfer to the team who will operate it.

Stack

The platforms and frameworks we build, integrate and maintain on. We would rather work in a stack your team can hire for and hand over than pick whatever is interesting this year — and where an existing platform does the job better than custom code, we will say so.

  • .NET 8
  • .NET Framework
  • C#
  • ASP.NET Core
  • Blazor
  • Angular
  • TypeScript
  • EF Core
  • Oracle Database
  • SQL Server
  • Temenos and Flexcube (SOAP, REST)
  • JWT and OAuth 2.0
  • PSD2 and Berlin Group
  • AWS (EC2, S3)

FAQs

Banking & Fintech Solutions — frequently asked questions

Have you actually delivered PSD2 and Open Banking work?

Yes. That work sits in the background of this practice: implementing PSD2 standard APIs, Strong Customer Authentication and the JWT and middleware filters that sit in front of them, as part of an Open Banking implementation team on an omnichannel banking platform adopted by banks across Southeast Asia. If you need references for a procurement process, say so early and we will be straight with you about what can and cannot be shared under the confidentiality terms that apply to that work.

Which core banking systems do you integrate with?

Temenos and Oracle Flexcube are the two we know in depth, over both SOAP and REST interfaces depending on the version and the licence in place. For anything else, the honest answer is that the work is transferable but not free: we would want a paid discovery against your actual interface documentation before quoting the build, because the same product name at two banks can behave quite differently.

How do you keep up with regulatory change?

By designing for it rather than promising to predict it. Business rules live in configuration with one owner each, consent and SCA flows follow the specification rather than a convenient reading of it, and the audit evidence is produced by the system as it runs. When a rule changes, the work is a configuration and test change rather than an archaeology exercise through three layers of code.

Can you work alongside our existing banking team and vendors?

That is the normal arrangement. Typical splits are us owning a specific module or integration against your existing stack, or delivering a channel while the bank or the core banking vendor owns the back end. We document the interfaces carefully because that boundary — more than anywhere else in software — is where these projects fail.

What kind of security and audit evidence do you produce?

Test evidence and documentation for the paths an auditor will ask about: authentication and step-up authentication, limits and their precedence, reversals and duplicate submission, consent handling, and reconciliation against the core. We also keep secrets out of the repository and give every integration an explicit failure behaviour, because "the upstream was unavailable" is an audit question, not an incident report.

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