Financial Services

AWS architecture held to the regulator's bar.

Financial services workloads on AWS face the strictest compliance posture in the cloud: PCI-DSS, SOC 2, GLBA, regional data residency, immutable audit, and resilience patterns measured by the regulator, not by you. We build environments that pass examination — and stay up when it matters.

The financial-services-on-AWS reality

  • PCI-DSS scope creeps until you actively reduce it — tokenization, network segmentation, and dedicated VPCs
  • SOC 2, ISO 27001, and DORA each demand different evidence — but the controls overlap on AWS
  • Multi-region active-active is non-negotiable for tier-1 systems — the regulator expects RTO/RPO discipline
  • BYOK and HSM-backed keys are increasingly default for cardholder data — KMS + CloudHSM
  • Trade data, transaction logs, and customer records need WORM-style immutable retention
  • Fraud, AML, and KYC pipelines run on stream-processing infrastructure that scales with the business

The examiner is a stakeholder

In financial services, architecture decisions don't only have to work — they have to be defensible during an examination. We build infrastructure where the controls are evidence-generating: the same code that ships the change generates the audit artifact.

CloudTrail Lake, AWS Config Conformance Packs, Security Hub controls, and Audit Manager assessments — pre-mapped to your regulatory frameworks.

Where we plug in

Insurance

Claims, policy admin, and underwriting

Claims processing pipelines, policy administration systems, underwriting data platforms, and direct-to-consumer portals. Modernization off legacy mainframe and Java EE stacks onto AWS event-driven architectures.

Banking

Core banking and digital channels

Core banking modernization (often in flight, never finished), mobile banking platforms, fraud detection pipelines, and open banking APIs. High-throughput, multi-region, with examiner-grade audit and access discipline.

Capital Markets

Trading, analytics, and post-trade

Low-latency trading-adjacent systems, market data ingestion, risk analytics, and post-trade settlement. Where the latency budget is microseconds, the data volume is petabytes, and the audit trail is forensic.

Payments

Card, ACH, and real-time rails

Payment processing platforms, PCI scope reduction strategies, fraud signals pipelines, and tokenization architecture. Designing the system so the cardholder data environment stays small and the rest of the platform stays out of PCI scope.

Fintech

Lending, neobanks, and embedded finance

Lending platforms, neobank back-ends, KYC/AML pipelines, BaaS infrastructure, and embedded finance APIs. Designed for both the regulatory bar and the SaaS-pace velocity that fintechs need to compete.

Data Providers

Market data and reference data

Market data ingestion, reference data distribution, and analytics-ready data products. Where the customer is itself a financial institution, so the security, residency, and entitlement controls live up to that bar.

The financial services stack we build with

Solutions that map to financial services work

Designed to ship, built to pass examination.

Financial services workloads on AWS have to clear two bars: the engineering bar and the regulator's bar. We build for both.

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