// Industry / 01

Banking that runs on
AI-native engineering.

Trusted by Deutsche Bank and Nationwide. AI-native delivery for retail, commercial, and investment banking – core modernisation, regulatory reporting, real-time risk, and customer 360 shipped to production by senior practitioners who already speak the language of the regulator.


// The Banking Practice

Where bank technology
actually breaks.

Trusted by Deutsche Bank, Nationwide


// Recurring Challenges

The four things
we see most.

// 01

Regulatory pressure that never lets up

BCBS 239, FRTB, Basel III, and a moving target of PRA and FCA expectations. Manual reporting is too slow and too expensive; gaps surface in supervisory reviews, not in your dashboards.

// 02

Core systems older than the team running them

Mainframe-bound cores, batch-only ledgers, and integration patterns from a different decade. Every product launch has to negotiate with infrastructure that wasn’t built for it.

// 03

Real-time risk in a batch-era estate

Risk, fraud, and AML expectations have moved to real time. Most banks’ data plumbing has not. AI controls only work if the underlying data feeds are streaming and trustworthy.

// 04

Customer experience held back by the back office

Digital channels promise minutes; back-office workflows still take days. Customer 360 only delivers when the operational systems behind it move at the same speed as the app.

// What We Deliver

Patterns shipped
at programme scale.

Each of these is an offering we’ve delivered into banks before – not a capability deck. Where there’s a matching sector accelerator with a pre-built package, we’ll cross-link it.

CAP_01

Core Banking Modernisation

Domain-driven decomposition of legacy cores. Event-streamed ledgers, API-first product factories, and AI-assisted code translation to compress the path off the mainframe.

CAP_03

Real-Time Risk & Fraud AI

Streaming risk engines, AI-driven fraud detection, and AML transaction monitoring built on event-driven architecture. Models governed, explained, and audit-ready by default.

CAP_04

Customer 360 & Personalisation

Unified customer profile across retail, wealth, and commercial channels. Personalisation engines that respect data residency, consent, and the privacy regulator at the same time.

CAP_05

Payments & Open Banking

ISO 20022 migration, PSD2 / Open Banking integrations, and instant-payment rails – delivered with the operational resilience that the PRA expects from day one.

CAP_06

Cloud & Data for Regulated Workloads

Sovereign cloud landing zones, encryption-at-rest patterns, and AI-ready data platforms designed for SS1/21 operational resilience and data residency requirements.

// Case Studies

Banking outcomes
we’ve shipped.

A selection of regulated-workload engagements from across our wider portfolio. Full case studies are available under case studies.


// FAQ

Frequently
asked questions.

Common questions we get from senior technology leaders evaluating this work. Direct answers, no hedging. Open one to read in full.

Most banking consultancies still write the delivery plan first and add AI as a workstream later. That’s the wrong way round. AI agents sit inside our engineering pipeline from the start: drafting infrastructure-as-code for the regulated Cloud landing zone, generating tests for the core decomposition, forecasting cost on the data platform before the bill arrives. The bank gets the engineering rigour the PRA expects, on a timeline AI makes possible.

Yes. The reporting stack stays. We layer templated pipelines on top – pre-built report types, automated data quality checks, an audit-defensible lineage trail. Our Financial Services Regulatory Reporting accelerator gets the first report into production in 4 to 6 weeks. Against your existing systems. No greenfield ledger nobody asked for.

That’s the only way it works at scale. Strangler pattern. New event-streamed services run alongside the legacy core; customer journeys move across one product line at a time; the old core retires in stages once traffic has shifted. AI-assisted code translation compresses discovery. The cut-over discipline protects the live service – and that’s the part most modernisation programmes get wrong.

Model governance is part of the architecture, never an annex bolted on before a supervisor visit. Model cards, decision logs, and feature attributions sit inside the inference path. When the regulator asks why a transaction was flagged, the answer is in the system. Explainability is a runtime contract on every production model we ship – including the ones using third-party LLMs.

All three. PRA, FCA, and BCBS standards apply across the board; the workload pressures look very different in each. A retail bank’s pain isn’t a wholesale prime broker’s pain. Senior practitioners on each engagement bring the segment-specific experience. We won’t reuse a retail-banking playbook in a markets engagement and call it sector knowledge.


// Get in touch

Got a regulated banking programme?
Let’s scope it.

Send us a brief and we’ll come back within one working day with a senior banking practitioner – and a clear sense of how to start.