IndustriesFinancial Services

Engineering trust at transaction speed

From core banking modernization to real-time payments and AI-powered risk intelligence, we build the critical systems financial institutions rely on to operate, innovate and scale.

150+Financial services projects delivered
40+Banking, payments & insurance clients
99.9%Uptime on mission-critical platforms
15+Years of sector expertise
// OUR DIFFERENTIATOR

Financial-grade engineering, earned in production.

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Automated BACEN reporting
LGPD data architecture
Open Finance FAPI compliance
Immutable audit logging

Compliance by architecture, not checklist

Financial services technology operates under a constraint no other sector faces: every architecture decision is also a compliance decision. Institutions that embed compliance into the architecture from the start capture 3× more value than those that treat it as a post-hoc audit, in a market where fintech revenue is projected to reach $2 trillion by 2030. (McKinsey (2025))

0%Regulatory compliance across all financial deployments
industry.approach
Event-driven payment rails
Sub-50ms fraud scoring
Real-time ledger updates
Instant credit decisions

Real-time is the minimum expectation

Real-time is not a feature in financial services, it is the baseline expectation. Sciensa's financial services stack is built for sub-50ms latency, PIX-level throughput and 99.9% uptime SLOs. (Accenture (2025))

0K+Transactions per second on financial platforms
// WHAT WE DELIVER

End-to-end capabilities for financial institutions

Deep domain knowledge meets engineering precision, from strategy to production.

Core Banking Modernization

Decompose monolithic core systems into event-driven, API-first architectures, without disrupting daily operations or regulatory compliance.

  • Strangler-fig migration
  • Dual-run validation
  • Legacy screen modernization
  • Zero-downtime data migration

Digital Banking Platform

End-to-end digital banking experiences: account opening, KYC/KYB, card management, self-service channels and onboarding journeys at scale.

  • Digital account opening
  • KYC/AML orchestration
  • Card & PIX management
  • Self-service & notification engine

Real-Time Payments & Settlement

High-throughput, low-latency payment rails for PIX, instant transfers and cross-border settlements, multi-rail, compliant and fault-tolerant.

  • Sub-second transaction processing
  • ISO 20022 orchestration
  • Multi-rail routing & fallback
  • Real-time fraud scoring

AI Risk Intelligence

ML models for credit risk, fraud detection, AML compliance and operational risk, integrated into real-time decision pipelines with full auditability.

  • Explainable AI for regulators
  • Real-time scoring (<50ms)
  • Graph-based AML detection
  • Continuous model monitoring

Open Finance & Ecosystem APIs

Secure, scalable API platforms for Open Banking, consent management and third-party ecosystem orchestration, FAPI-compliant by design.

  • FAPI-compliant APIs
  • Consent lifecycle management
  • API gateway & rate limiting
  • Partner developer portals

Tokenization & Digital Assets

Platforms for asset tokenization, custody systems and programmable finance in distributed ledger architectures.

  • Security token issuance
  • Custody & key management (HSM)
  • Smart contract audit pipelines
  • Regulatory reporting integration

Compliance & Regulatory Engineering

Automate regulatory reporting for BACEN, build immutable audit trails and embed compliance checks directly into the engineering pipeline.

  • Automated regulatory reports
  • Immutable audit logging
  • Policy-as-code enforcement
  • KYC/KYB orchestration
// CASE STUDIES

Results in production.

Top-1 Brazilian Bank

Core Banking Decomposition

70% reduction in deployment cycles while maintaining 99.9% uptime during migration of 12M+ accounts.

Core ModernizationAI Engineering
Digital Payments Provider

PIX Infrastructure at Scale

Processed 2.5M+ daily transactions with p99 latency <200ms and real-time fraud scoring across all payment flows.

PaymentsCloud & DevOps
Digital Bank

Digital Banking Platform

Full-stack digital banking go-live in 8 weeks with Amplify, account opening, PIX, cards, KYC and self-service channel for 500K+ users.

Digital BankingAmplify
Amplify

Digital banking in 8 weeks, not 18 months.

Amplify is Sciensa's digital banking acceleration platform, pre-built, pre-compliant modules for every layer of digital financial operations.

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Módulos & capacidades

Automated onboarding & KYC
Digital accounts (individuals & companies)
PIX 100% BACEN-compliant
Real-time risk & anti-fraud
White-label web portal & mobile app
Open Banking & virtual/physical cards
FAPI-compliant Open Finance
Limits & credit management
Lumia AI

AI intelligence embedded in every financial decision.

Lumia AI is Sciensa's LLM orchestration layer for financial institutions, risk models, fraud detection, AML, document AI and intelligent service, all with full auditability and regulatory compliance.

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Módulos & capacidades

Real-time credit scoring (<50ms)
Graph AI fraud detection
AML & compliance monitoring
Document AI for contracts and KYC
AI service with banking context
Explainable AI for BACEN regulators
Model observability in production
Multi-model routing & banking RAG
// TECHNOLOGY STACK

Battle-tested tooling

Cloud
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
Data & AI
  • Spark
  • Kafka
  • MLflow
  • TensorFlow
  • LangChain
Integration
  • Kong
  • Apigee
  • MuleSoft
  • GraphQL
  • gRPC
Security
  • Vault
  • OPA
  • SonarQube
  • Snyk
  • SIEM

// FAQ

Frequently asked questions.

Open Banking allows third parties to access a customer's bank account data and initiate payments via APIs. Open Finance extends this to a broader set of financial data, investments, insurance, pension and credit, across all financial institutions, not just banks.

BACEN (Banco Central do Brasil) is Brazil's central bank and primary financial regulator. It sets requirements for capital adequacy, transaction reporting, PIX participation, Open Finance API standards, cybersecurity policy (Resolution 4658) and data governance.

FAPI is a security profile built on OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect, designed for the high-security requirements of financial data access. It adds mutual TLS, JWT-protected authorization requests and specific token binding mechanisms.

Tokenization creates a digital representation of an asset on a ledger, enabling fractional ownership, faster settlement and 24/7 trading. Assets being tokenized include real estate, receivables, securities and commodities.

Compliance by architecture means designing the system so that regulatory requirements are structurally impossible to violate, audit trails are automatic, data residency is enforced by infrastructure, consent is verified by middleware before any data access.

Fintechs are built cloud-native from day one. Traditional banks have decades of accumulated systems, core banking platforms from the 1980s, integration layers built on top of them. The strategic challenge is modernizing without disrupting the operations that currently generate revenue.

Ready to modernize your financial infrastructure?

Schedule a briefing with our financial services engineering team.