Tag: FINTECH

Compliance as a Code: The End of Audit Panic

It’s 9:00 AM on a Monday. The notification lands: “External Audit starts in 10 days.” 

For most engineering teams, this triggers a predictable chaos: 

  • Feature Freeze: All innovation stops. 
  • The Scavenger Hunt: Your best engineers stop coding and start digging through logs to find evidence that Incident #402 was patched correctly. 
  • The Screenshot Factory: Senior Architects spend hours taking screenshots of AWS configurations to prove encryption is “On.” 

It is expensive, demoralizing, and ironically – it doesn’t actually make you secure.  Continue reading “Compliance as a Code: The End of Audit Panic”

Fintech Shadow Failure | Your App is Up, But is Your Business?

Do you remember the viral Twitter storm that hit a leading investment platform recently? 

A user claimed they invested in a Mutual Fund. Their bank account was debited. The app dashboard showed a green tick and even generated a Folio Number. To the user (and the app’s frontend), the transaction was a success. 

But days later, when they tried to redeem, the fund house said the money never arrived.  Continue reading “Fintech Shadow Failure | Your App is Up, But is Your Business?”

How Fintech Teams Automate PCI-DSS Compliance with CI/CD Policy Gates

Fintech organizations are built for speed. New features, payment flows, partner integrations and regulatory updates often move from idea to production in weeks or even days. While this velocity drives growth, it also puts traditional PCI-DSS compliance models under strain.  

Manual audits, checklist-driven controls and post-release reviews simply cannot keep up with modern release cycles. 

As transaction volumes scale and payment ecosystems become more complex, compliance risk quietly increases. A small configuration change, an overlooked dependency or delayed visibility into payment performance can quickly turn into audit findings, customer-impacting incidents and regulatory scrutiny. For leadership teams, the challenge is no longer whether to comply, but how to maintain continuous PCI-DSS assurance without slowing down the business.  Continue reading “How Fintech Teams Automate PCI-DSS Compliance with CI/CD Policy Gates”

Navigating Compliance Landscape in Fintech

Introduction

From card swipes to contactless cards, digital wallets, and instant peer-to-peer transfers, fintech’s really upscaled from secure payment gateways to established digital-only banks. 24/7 Global accessibility, transparent fee structures, and AI-driven advisory services have heightened the appeal of banking-at-your-convenience. Elevating fintechs to an ‘equal and better’ alternative to traditional brick-and-mortar banks.

With all these neat upgrades, consumers and regulators are looking at fintechs for responsible innovation. RBI has been redrawing the regulatory perimeter to be more inclusive toward the evolving fintech solutions, potentially blurring boundaries between traditional financial services and fintech solutions. Continue reading “Navigating Compliance Landscape in Fintech”