Infrastructure built for zero-tolerance uptime.
IT services for financial services and fintech software development — banks, NBFCs, insurers and fintech platforms run under regulation, adversarial threat and real-time expectations. Archonova engineers the platforms and controls that keep those systems trusted.
The landscape
Where finance teams get stuck.
Four recurring pressure points we design around when building for this sector.
Regulatory Compliance
RBI, SEBI, PCI-DSS and cross-border data rules dictate architecture as much as they dictate policy. Compliance has to be embedded, not audited in after the fact.
Fraud & Security Risk
Financial platforms are targeted continuously. Identity, transaction monitoring and defensive engineering have to be designed to catch tomorrow's attack pattern, not yesterday's.
Legacy Core Systems
Core banking, ledger and policy-admin systems are decades deep. Modernization means strangler patterns, API layers and disciplined migration — not rip-and-replace.
Real-Time Data Processing
Payments, trading and risk engines demand low-latency pipelines and consistent throughput. Streaming, observability and capacity planning become product requirements.
Solutions for finance
How the practice maps to your work.
Five capability layers — Advisory, Operate, Build, Infrastructure, Security — applied to the way finance actually runs.
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Advisory
We review architecture the way an RBI or SEBI inspector would, then train internal engineering and risk teams on secure-by-default patterns so compliance stops being a quarterly scramble and starts being the default posture.
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Operate
Every deployment moves through audit-grade change management, licensing is consolidated across regulated and shared seats, and 24/7 operations run tight enough to satisfy the resiliency clauses regulators actually enforce.
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Build
We build the API and strangler layers that let core banking modernize without a rip-and-replace, engineer real-time risk and fraud services on streaming data, and wire CRM into KYC, AML and onboarding so the front office and compliance see the same customer.
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Infrastructure
Latency-sensitive workloads sit on tuned cloud and colocation footprints close to payment rails, DR is designed for regulator-mandated RPO/RTO, and dedicated capacity is reserved for the workloads that can't share a noisy neighbour.
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Security
Defensive engineering is treated as product: hardened identity, continuous transaction monitoring, adversarial testing against the actual attack patterns targeting Indian and cross-border financial platforms today.
How we'd approach this
For a growing NBFC or digital bank.
For a fast-growing NBFC or digital-native bank, this typically starts by mapping every data flow that touches a regulator's scope — payments, KYC, credit decisioning, customer records — and pressure-testing the boundary controls around each one. From there we'd design a strangler API layer over the legacy core so new products can ship in weeks instead of quarters, stand up a real-time fraud pipeline that scores transactions in-flight, and put an audit-grade DevOps and change-management pipeline over the whole stack. The goal is a platform that can pass an unannounced audit on a Tuesday morning without a war room.
Building in finance?
Bring us the constraints — regulation, uptime, legacy, scale — and we'll architect the system around them. Start with a scoping call.