Engineering for regulated financial services.
We have built and run systems inside tier-one investment banks and UK challenger banks. We know what the regulator asks for, what the auditor accepts, and what production looks like at settlement.
What makes this sector hard
01 Change control built for a slower era
Risk frameworks designed around quarterly releases now govern teams that need to ship daily. The result is usually shadow processes or stalled delivery — both worse than the risk the framework was meant to manage.
02 Evidence on demand, produced by hand
FCA visits, internal audit, S166 reviews — each one triggers weeks of screenshot archaeology because the systems were never built to explain themselves.
03 Core systems nobody dares touch
The ledger works, the people who built it have left, and every new product has to integrate with it. Modernisation by rewrite has failed here often enough to be a cautionary genre.
How we help
→ Controls as code, not committees Policy-as-code and continuous evidence replace manual gates — Security & Compliance Engineering.→ → Regulated cloud, done properly Landing zones and platforms designed for FCA scrutiny from day one — Cloud & Platform Engineering.→ → Unlock the core without rewriting it CDC and event streaming put real-time data around systems you cannot change — Data & Event Streaming.→
Case study
70% faster deployment lead time for a UK retail bank A Kubernetes platform with paved-road pipelines replaced a change board that took 12 days to say yes — with a stronger audit position. Read case study →
Real-time payments data for a UK challenger bank Overnight batch replaced with CDC and Kafka — data freshness from 24 hours to under 60 seconds. Read case study →
Compliance & standards
FCA-regulated delivery experience · Tier-one and challenger banking
UK Software Security Code of Practice (SSCoP) alignment
ISO 27001-aligned practices · Operational resilience awareness (SYSC)
BPSS-vetted associates as standard · Client-device and on-site working supported