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BinaryScaler

Financial Services

Move money at speed, prove it afterwards.

We build payment, lending and wealth systems where correctness is not negotiable and the audit trail is a first-class feature.

  • PCI DSS experience
  • Idempotent by design
  • Reconciled to the cent

The sector

Correctness is the product

In most software, an inconsistent state is a bug. In financial software it is a reconciliation break, a regulatory report and a phone call from a customer whose rent did not clear.

We build for that reality: idempotent operations, event-sourced ledgers where the history matters, and reconciliation running continuously rather than in a nightly batch that someone checks on Monday.

  • Ledger-first architecture
  • Idempotency across every money path
  • Continuous reconciliation
  • Evidence generated, not assembled

Sub-sectors we serve

  • Payments
  • Lending
  • Wealth management
  • Insurance
  • Embedded finance

Regulation we build to

  • PCI DSS
  • SOC 2 Type II
  • PSD2 / SCA
  • GDPR
  • ISO 27001

Payment path availability

Sustained across peak retail periods

Unreconciled breaks

On platforms we have taken to production

Where we help

What we build in financial services

Payment platforms

Authorisation, capture, settlement and refunds with idempotency and reconciliation designed in from the first commit.

  • Card + account-to-account
  • Ledger design
  • Settlement reconciliation

Lending systems

Origination and servicing workflows where decisions are explainable and every state change is recorded.

  • Decision audit trails
  • Servicing workflows
  • Collections

Risk and fraud

Real-time scoring that meets latency budgets without becoming a black box the dispute team cannot explain.

  • Real-time scoring
  • Case management
  • Explainable decisions

Regulatory reporting

Reports generated from the same modelled data the business runs on, so figures reconcile by construction.

  • Reporting pipelines
  • Data lineage
  • Submission workflows

Core modernisation

Incremental migration off systems that cannot be switched off, with dual-running and reconciliation throughout.

  • Strangler migration
  • Dual-run reconciliation
  • Phased decommissioning

What the sector is dealing with

01 · The challenge

A nightly reconciliation batch that surfaces breaks twelve hours after they happen.

How we answer it

Continuous reconciliation against the ledger, alerting within minutes of a mismatch, with the position always queryable.

02 · The challenge

Regulatory reports assembled by hand each quarter from three sources that disagree.

How we answer it

Reports generated from the modelled warehouse with column-level lineage, so a challenged figure is traceable to source in one click.

03 · The challenge

A core system that no vendor will extend and no team wants to touch.

How we answer it

A strangler facade lets new capability ship immediately while the legacy footprint shrinks release by release.

04 · The challenge

Fraud models that block good customers and cannot explain why.

How we answer it

Explainability and segment-level performance testing built into the model pipeline, with a review path for contested decisions.

FAQ

Questions we are asked

Yes. Our delivery model adapts to change advisory boards and release windows — the trunk-based approach still works, the flags simply gate on approval rather than on our judgement.

Talk to someone who has shipped a ledger

Bring the problem your last vendor called impossible.