Financial Services

Keep financial data current.
Keep core systems out of the path.

Maintain current customer, account, transaction, and entitlement data across legacy and modern systems—then make it available to applications, APIs, analytics, and AI without repeatedly querying production cores.

CoreLedger
  • AccountActive
  • TransactionPosted
  • LimitAvailable
  • EntitlementApproved
Mainframe
DB2
Oracle
SQL Server

The Financial Data Gap

Critical financial state lives in the core.
More decisions need it everywhere else.

Customer, account, transaction, entitlement, and reference data often remains anchored in systems of record, while digital services, operations, APIs, analytics, and AI need that state with less delay and less direct dependency on production cores.

01 · Authoritative Core

The source of truth stays in systems built to run the business.

Core banking, payment, account, and ledger systems remain authoritative for critical financial state.

Core Systems

ACCOUNT
TRANSACTION
ENTITLEMENT

02 · Demand Multiplies

More consumers need the same current state.

Digital banking, services, operations, analytics, APIs, and AI increasingly depend on overlapping financial context.

CURRENT STATEAPPAPIOPSANALYTICSAI

03 · Direct Access Couples Everything

Direct access turns every new consumer into another core dependency.

Point-to-point reads, custom extracts, and source-specific integrations multiply operational pressure and make change harder to absorb.

Core
APP
API
ANALYTICS
AI

What Financial Data Infrastructure Should Enable

Keep the core authoritative.
Make current financial state reusable.

Modern financial infrastructure should reduce direct dependency on systems of record while keeping customer, account, transaction, and entitlement data current for the applications and decisions that depend on it.

  1. 01 · MODERNIZE WITHOUT DISRUPTING THE CORE

    Move downstream demand away from systems built to run the business.

    Maintain operational data outside core banking and legacy systems so new services, analytical workloads, and downstream applications do not have to rely on repeated direct access.

  2. 02 · KEEP CUSTOMER & ACCOUNT STATE CURRENT

    Maintain the financial state that changes between interactions.

    Keep customer, account, transaction, relationship, limit, and entitlement context advancing as operational systems change.

  3. 03 · SERVE CURRENT DATA WHERE DECISIONS HAPPEN

    Make maintained financial context reusable across consumers.

    Give digital services, APIs, operations, analytics, and AI access to current operational state through stable downstream interfaces instead of source-specific dependencies.

Financial Use Cases

Put current financial state
to work across the institution.

Use maintained customer, account, transaction, and entitlement data to modernize core-dependent workloads, support digital services, and provide fresher operational context for analytics and AI.

Core Banking Modernization & Offload

Move downstream workloads away from the core without replacing it first.

Maintain current operational data outside core banking and legacy systems so applications, services, and analytical workloads can evolve with less direct production dependency.

COREMAINTAINED COPY

CORE BANKING · ACCOUNT · TRANSACTION

Customer & Account 360

Keep customer and account context aligned as relationships change.

Continuously maintain customer, account, product, relationship, and entitlement context so channels and operations can work from the same current financial state.

ACCOUNTCUSTOMERPRODUCTENTITLEMENT

CUSTOMER · ACCOUNT · RELATIONSHIP

Operational Data APIs

Serve current financial data without turning the core into an API backend.

Expose maintained account, transaction, entitlement, and reference context through stable downstream interfaces while keeping source-specific schemas behind the boundary.

ACCOUNTTRANSACTIONENTITLEMENTSTABLE INTERFACEAPPSERVICE

ACCOUNT · TRANSACTION · ENTITLEMENT

Analytics & AI Context

Give analytics and AI fresher operational context without querying production cores.

Continuously deliver current financial state into analytical and AI workloads that depend on recent customer, account, transaction, and operational conditions.

ANALYTICS · AI · OPERATIONAL CONTEXT

Financial Operational Data Pattern

Keep systems of record authoritative.
Maintain current state for everything downstream.

Capture operational changes across core banking, payments, CRM, and account systems, maintain reusable financial state outside those production cores, and serve it to digital services, APIs, operations, analytics, and AI.

Systems of Record

CORE BANKING
PAYMENTS
CRM
ACCOUNT SYSTEMS

Mainframe · DB2 · Oracle · SQL Server

Maintained Financial State

CUSTOMERmaintained
ACCOUNTmaintained
TRANSACTIONmaintained
ENTITLEMENTmaintained
REFERENCE / POLICYmaintained

Operational Consumers

DIGITAL BANKINGSERVICES & APIsRISK / OPERATIONSANALYTICSAI

01 · CORE REMAINS AUTHORITATIVE

Systems of record continue to own transactional truth.

02 · STATE ADVANCES CONTINUOUSLY

Customer, account, transaction, and entitlement context stays current as sources change.

03 · CONSUMERS REUSE THE SAME CONTEXT

Applications, APIs, analytics, and AI do not rebuild the same operational state independently.

Built for Financial Operating Environments

Modernize around the core
without destabilizing it.

Financial data infrastructure has to evolve without increasing pressure on systems of record, breaking downstream dependencies, or turning every source change into another custom integration project.

01

Protect Production Systems

Keep downstream demand from becoming production-core load.

Maintain operational data outside systems of record so applications, APIs, and analytical workloads do not repeatedly depend on direct production reads.

COREDOWNSTREAM DEMAND
02

Bridge Legacy & Modern Estates

Modernize across the systems you actually have.

Maintain current state across mainframe, relational, and modern operational systems without waiting for a wholesale core replacement.

LEGACYRELATIONALMODERN
03

Keep Downstream Interfaces Stable

Let consumers depend on maintained state—not source-specific schemas.

Absorb source-side change behind stable downstream interfaces so applications and services do not have to follow every underlying system change.

SOURCESTABLE INTERFACECONTRACT
04

Operate Continuously

Treat delivery as a production lifecycle, not a one-time migration.

Support initial load, ongoing change, monitoring, recovery, and resume as part of continuous financial data operations.

Proven in Production · Leading Bank

Move operational data beyond the core, and keep downstream services moving with it.

In a production banking environment, operational changes from core financial systems are continuously distributed into downstream Kafka and MongoDB environments for services, APIs, and other operational consumers.

Core Financial Systems

Core Systems

ACCOUNTTRANSACTION

Legacy · Relational

Continuous Distribution

Initial StateOngoing ChangesCurrent

Downstream Operational Layer

Data Layer

Kafka
MongoDB

Consumed by

SERVICESAPIsDOWNSTREAM APPLICATIONS

01 · Core Decoupling Pattern

Operational changes distributed beyond production systems

02 · Downstream Data Layer

Kafka · MongoDB

03 · Operational Consumption

Services · APIs · downstream applications

Financial Services

Modernize around the core.
Put current financial data to work.

Maintain current customer, account, transaction, and entitlement data for digital services, APIs, operations, analytics, and AI—while systems of record remain authoritative.

Authoritative Core
Current Financial State
Reusable Everywhere

APIs · Services · Analytics · AI