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Data platforms for financial services and insurance
Banks, insurers, payment firms and fintechs need data platforms that stay up, scale on demand and stand up to regulatory scrutiny. Digitalis designs, migrates and runs those platforms on Apache Kafka, Apache Cassandra and PostgreSQL, with 24×7 support. Our ICT risk and resilience controls are aligned with DORA.
Financial data platforms are judged on uptime, latency and evidence
Four pressures shape every data platform decision in financial services:
- Always-on transactions. Payments, trading and policy systems cannot pause for maintenance windows or failovers that customers notice.
- Real-time decisions. Fraud detection, risk and FX pricing depend on events arriving within milliseconds rather than in overnight batches.
- Regulatory scrutiny of ICT suppliers. Under the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), firms must show how they manage the ICT risk of the third parties that run their critical systems.
- Audit and data protection. Every change, access and incident has to be traceable, and personal data handled under GDPR.
Solutions for financial services
Real-time data streaming
Move payment, FX and transaction data into the systems that act on it, including risk and fraud checks. See real-time data streaming
Data foundation for analytics and AI
Capture policy and transaction data reliably for reporting, insight and AI. See data foundation for analytics and AI
Always-on customer platforms
Keep customer-facing services fast and online through every peak. See always-on customer platforms
Enterprise-ready SaaS platforms
Get fintech and insurtech platforms through enterprise security and compliance reviews. See enterprise-ready SaaS platforms
A typical architecture with event streaming and resilient storage
- Apache Kafka carries payment, trade and policy events in real time, with topic and access control managed as code.
- Apache Cassandra stores high-volume transactional data across multiple data centres or clouds, with no single point of failure.
- PostgreSQL runs relational workloads with high availability and tested recovery.
- Kubernetes gives a consistent, portable way to run it all on any cloud or on-premises.
Built to pass supplier due diligence
- FSQS registered. Digitalis is registered with the Financial Services Qualification System (FSQS), enabling streamlined supplier onboarding for banks, insurers and other regulated financial institutions.
- ISO 27001 certified. Our information security management system is independently audited on an annual basis.
- DORA-aligned. Our ICT risk management framework and operational resilience controls are fully aligned with the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA).
- Tested continuity. We maintain documented Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans that are regularly rehearsed and tested.
Read more on why regulated firms choose Digitalis. Need security monitoring as well? See Managed SIEM.
Frequently asked questions
What does DORA mean for our database and streaming providers?
DORA requires EU financial entities to manage the ICT risk of third parties that support critical or important functions. That includes due diligence, contractual terms, incident reporting and exit planning. A provider that runs your data platforms should be able to evidence its own risk management, resilience testing and continuity plans. Ours are aligned with DORA and set out on our Why Digitalis page.
Can you run platforms in our own cloud or data centres?
We are cloud-agnostic. Our managed service covers any cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments, including hyperscalers such as AWS, Azure and Google Cloud and European sovereign clouds such as Scaleway and IONOS.
Do you support open-source Kafka and Cassandra, or only vendor distributions?
We specialise in the open-source Apache projects and run them in production 24×7. If you use a commercial distribution today, we can support it or help you move off it.
How do you take over support of an existing platform?
We learn your platforms, runbooks and processes, then take them under management with zero disruption. See our 24×7 Managed Service.
Are you on the FSQS register?
Digitalis is registered with the Financial Services Qualification System, which streamlines supplier onboarding for banks, insurers and other regulated institutions.