Banking & Financial ServicesPayments

Exception handling and reconciliation: the part of the payments lifecycle that still burns people.

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Grey: client onboarding today. Lime: the step we take the wait out of. Proportions illustrative.
< 2 minto reconcile and book a full monthHigh-Volume E-Commerce Reconciliation and Accounting Automation

What is changing in Banking & Financial Services

The pressures we hear from leadership teams in this sector, and the ones the work below answers.

  • Regulators ask how, not only what

    Every automated decision has to be explainable to an examiner, so the audit trail is designed in from the first day.

  • Cost-to-income under pressure

    Back-office volumes grow faster than headcount budgets. Reconciliation and onboarding are where the cost sits.

  • Onboarding is measured in minutes

    Digital challengers set the bar. KYC and document checks are the queue customers notice first.

  • Legacy cores behind new channels

    Modern front ends still meet decades-old systems, and the gap is filled by people re-keying data.

How we help in Payments

The capabilities behind our work here. Open one to see what you get, how to start and the result it moved.

Attended and unattended robots for the systems that will never expose an API worth using. Built with source control, environments and exception handling, because a bot without those is a liability with a schedule.

Ways to start in Payments

Fixed-scope first steps we have run against exactly this kind of problem.

  • Start here

    Automation Discovery Sprint

    Four weeks. We measure what your process costs today and hand back a ranked backlog, including the candidates we tell you not to automate.

    Duration
    4 weeks
    What you keep
    The backlog and the maps are yours whether or not you continue with us.
  • Start here

    AI Readiness Assessment

    Three weeks to separate the processes where AI changes the economics from the ones where it is an expensive way to run a rule.

    Duration
    3 weeks
    What you keep
    You leave with a defensible position for the board, built or not.
  • Retainer

    Managed Automation Care

    Monthly retainer covering monitoring, incident response and the change work that keeps automations alive as the systems underneath them drift.

    Duration
    Rolling, 3-month minimum
    What you keep
    Thirty days' notice, and the runbooks leave with you.

Bars drawn to scale: one block is one week.

Our view

Exception handling and reconciliation: the part of the payments lifecycle that still burns people.

Bring us one process in Payments. We will tell you what it would take.

Not a proposal: a straight read on whether it is worth changing, what it costs and where it usually goes wrong in this sector.

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