# Digital Bank Expert

> IT consulting and custom software development for regulated financial
> institutions — banks, payment processors, EMIs, AISPs, PISPs, PIs, and
> fintech scale-ups. We partner with clients across the United Kingdom
> and the European Economic Area, with active partnerships being built
> in the United Arab Emirates and the wider Gulf Cooperation Council.
> Resident at Level39, Canary Wharf, London.

## About

**Trading name:** Digital Bank Expert
**Headquarters:** Level39, One Canada Square, London E14 5AB, United Kingdom
**Founded:** 2016 (London); expanded into Europe 2021; building UAE and wider GCC partnerships from 2024
**Website:** https://digitalbankexpert.com
**Contact:** https://digitalbankexpert.com/contact
**LinkedIn:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/digitalbankexpert/

## Services

- **[Custom Rust Development](https://digitalbankexpert.com/services/custom-rust-development)** — Rust development for the integration layer of banks and fintechs — ISO 8583 and ISO 20022 message processing, payment routing, and the components where memory safety and predictable performance map directly to operational concerns. A focused capability for the parts of the banking stack where Rust earns its place.
- **[IT Audit](https://digitalbankexpert.com/services/it-audit)** — Technical due diligence and audit work for regulated financial institutions — architecture review, database health, cloud readiness, application and integration audits, and pre-procurement vendor due diligence. Led by senior banking specialists with deep platform certifications, including an Oracle Certified Master and an AWS-certified Solution Architect.
- **[IT Strategy](https://digitalbankexpert.com/services/it-strategy)** — Multi-year technology roadmaps for regulated financial institutions — current-state assessment, target architecture, vendor and sourcing strategy, business case modelling, and regulatory-driven platform decisions. Led by senior partners with hands-on banking implementation experience, vendor-independent across the cloud and platform stack, with MBAs from London Business School and Columbia.
- **[M&A Technology Integration](https://digitalbankexpert.com/services/ma-technology-integration)** — Technology integration leadership for financial institutions following mergers, acquisitions, and portfolio transfers — from target architecture and day-one readiness through platform consolidation, scheme re-certification, and regulatory continuity. Senior architects with production experience on the systems that need to be joined together.
- **[Solution Design](https://digitalbankexpert.com/services/solution-design)** — Technical architecture for regulated financial institutions — the bridge between strategy and implementation. Integration architecture, data design, security and compliance built in, and non-functional requirements specified to the level engineering can actually build from. Vendor-neutral across the platform stack; senior architects with hands-on production experience.
- **[Team Extension](https://digitalbankexpert.com/services/team-extension)** — Senior banking specialists embedded into your delivery team — card payments, core banking, credit risk, database engineering, and Rust development. Engagements structured as business-to-business Statements of Work; production experience on the platforms you actually run. Typical engagements six to eighteen months.

## Industries Served

- **[A2A Payments](https://digitalbankexpert.com/industries/a2a-payments)** — Building the infrastructure for account-to-account payments — open banking, instant payment rails, PSD2 compliance, and fraud-resilient APIs.
- **[Business Banking](https://digitalbankexpert.com/industries/business-banking)** — Delivering scalable, compliant business banking platforms for banks, EMIs, and BaaS providers — KYB, commercial lending, payments, and ERP integration.
- **[Card Payments](https://digitalbankexpert.com/industries/card-payments)** — Delivering end-to-end card payment solutions for issuers, acquirers, and processors across Visa, Mastercard, and UnionPay networks.
- **[Personal Banking](https://digitalbankexpert.com/industries/personal-banking)** — Empowering banks with modern, customer-centric personal banking platforms — from digital account opening to financial wellness tools.

## Technical Expertise

- **[Artificial Intelligence](https://digitalbankexpert.com/expertise/artificial-intelligence)** — Production-grade AI for regulated financial institutions — fraud detection, credit risk scoring, conversational banking, and compliance automation. Built for the constraints supervisors actually care about: explainability, auditability, and data residency.
- **[Banking CRM](https://digitalbankexpert.com/expertise/banking-crm)** — Empowering financial institutions with custom CRM platforms — including Salesforce and nCino — built for compliance, integration depth, and the realities of operating customer relationships inside a regulated perimeter.
- **[Branchless Banking](https://digitalbankexpert.com/expertise/branchless-banking)** — End-to-end branchless banking platforms for banks, neobanks, and financial institutions reaching customers wherever they are — mobile banking, digital onboarding, agent networks, and payment integration, built for the regulatory perimeter.
- **[Business Intelligence in Banking](https://digitalbankexpert.com/expertise/business-intelligence-in-banking)** — Data platforms, regulatory reporting automation, and real-time analytics for regulated financial institutions. Built around banking-specific data models, with the lineage and governance supervisors expect.
- **[Card Payment Processing](https://digitalbankexpert.com/expertise/card-payment-processing)** — Card payments specialists for banks and processors. End-to-end coverage of issuing, acquiring, tokenisation, authorisation, clearing, settlement, and disputes.
- **[Core Banking Systems](https://digitalbankexpert.com/expertise/core-banking-systems)** — Core banking implementation, modernisation, and migration for regulated financial institutions. From legacy mainframe estates to modern cloud-native platforms — delivered with the operational discipline that core migrations actually require.
- **[Credit Risk Scoring](https://digitalbankexpert.com/expertise/credit-risk-scoring)** — Credit risk scoring for regulated lenders — application and behavioural models, IFRS 9 ECL, decisioning, and bureau integration.
- **[Database Administration (DBA)](https://digitalbankexpert.com/expertise/database-administration-dba)** — Database engineering and administration for regulated financial institutions — led by an Oracle Certified Master with years of production experience in performance tuning, high availability, security, and migration. Covering Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL and the cloud-native equivalents.
- **[Security and Compliance](https://digitalbankexpert.com/expertise/security-and-compliance)** — Pre-audit readiness, operational resilience, evidence packaging, and post-finding remediation for regulated financial institutions. From DORA programmes to PCI DSS v4.0 preparation and supervisory response — focused on the work that gets you ready for the assessment, and ready for what comes after it.

## Banking Platform Expertise

Production experience across the major card and core banking platforms:

- **OpenWay Way4**
- **ACI Base24**
- **TSYS Prime**
- **BPC SmartVista**
- **TietoEvry Card Suite**
- **Compass Plus TranzWare**

Database platforms: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL

Credit risk and decisioning platforms: Experian PowerCurve, Equifax InterConnect, SAS, FICO

## Regulatory and Standards Expertise

Deep working knowledge of the standards and regulatory frameworks that define
regulated finance in the UK and EEA:

- **ISO 8583** — card payments messaging
- **ISO 20022** — modern payments messaging across SEPA Instant, CHAPS, TARGET2, and instant-payment rails
- **PCI DSS v4.0** — payment card data security
- **PSD2 / PSD3** — Strong Customer Authentication, Open Banking
- **Open Banking** — UK OBIE and EU Berlin Group standards
- **DORA** — EU Digital Operational Resilience Act
- **FCA Operational Resilience** — important business services, impact tolerances, supervisory expectations
- **GDPR and UK GDPR** — data protection and breach reporting
- **AML and KYC** — anti-money laundering, transaction monitoring, customer due diligence
- **Basel III** — capital adequacy and stress testing
- **MiCA** — EU Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation

## Credentials and Certifications

- **MBA** — London Business School
- **MBA** — Columbia Business School
- **Oracle Certified Master** — Oracle
- **Project Manager Professional** — Project Management Institute
- **AWS Certified Solution Architect** — AWS
- **OpenWay Way4 Certified** — OpenWay

## Partner Programmes and Memberships

- **Visa Developer Center** — VISA
- **Mastercard Developers** — Mastercard
- **NVIDIA Developer** — NVIDIA
- **AWS Partner Network** — AWS
- **Tech Nation UK**

Registered profiles on Clutch and GoodFirms.

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- [Homepage](https://digitalbankexpert.com/) — Overview of services, client trust signals, and contact
- [About Us](https://digitalbankexpert.com/about-us) — Company history, mission, values, credentials, residency at Level39
- [Insights](https://digitalbankexpert.com/insights) — Thought leadership on banking technology, payments, AI, and regulation
- [Contact](https://digitalbankexpert.com/contact) — Schedule a discovery conversation
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## Recent Insights

- [Agentic Banking Is an Authorisation Problem, Not an Automation One](https://digitalbankexpert.com/2026/07/agentic-banking-authorisation-not-automation) — Fiserv, FIS and Anthropic, and Google's AP2 have made agentic banking live infrastructure in under a year — but PSD2, SCA and UK consumer law were all built around a human clicking "confirm." The FCA and CMA are now asking the same question from opposite directions: when an autonomous agent moves money, who is accountable? This piece argues that's the problem worth solving first — not the model.
- [The CBPR+ Structured Address Deadline Is a Data-Quality Problem, Not a Messaging One](https://digitalbankexpert.com/2026/06/iso-20022-structured-address-deadline) — On 14 November 2026, SWIFT CBPR+ retires fully unstructured postal addresses, with SEPA and CHAPS aligned to the same window. Most institutions are treating this as a messaging change. It is not — the deadline is a forcing function for a data-quality problem that lives upstream, in onboarding, master data and corporate files. The institutions that treat it that way come through with cleaner data, not just a cleared checkpoint.
- [The Payment Stack: How a Single Transaction Is Encapsulated, Cleared and Settled Across Four Layers](https://digitalbankexpert.com/2026/06/payment-infrastructure-layers-explained) — Every card tap, instant transfer and cross-border wire travels through a stack of infrastructure that most of its participants never see. A retail payment is wrapped inside a national settlement, which may in turn be wrapped inside a regional or cross-currency arrangement — much as a data packet is encapsulated as it descends a network stack. Understanding these layers, how they nest, and where risk concentrates at each tier is what separates operating a payment product from understanding it. This piece maps the four layers, walks the lifecycle of a transaction from tokenisation to dispute, and explains the two institutions — CLS and the Bank for International Settlements — that quietly hold the top of the stack together.
- [AI Reskilling in Banking: Why Workforce Transformation Programmes Miss the Real Question](https://digitalbankexpert.com/2026/05/ai-reskilling-banking-workforce-transformation) — Many banks now have a reskilling programme. Very few have a strategy. The gap between training the existing workforce and redesigning what work humans do is where most AI workforce transformation programmes are failing — and the 2026 academic evidence is starting to confirm it.
- [Competition in the AI Era: What Will Make or Break Businesses in the Age of AI Agents](https://digitalbankexpert.com/2026/03/competition-in-the-ai-era-what-will-make-or-break-businesses-in-the-age-of-ai-agents) — Most businesses are asking the wrong question about AI. They’re asking: how fast can we deploy AI agents across our operations? That’s a useful question. It is not a strategic one.
- [Why are LLMs so persuasive and confident in tone, yet sometimes wrong in statements?](https://digitalbankexpert.com/2026/01/why-llm-sometimes-wrong) — The gap between an LLM’s confidence and its correctness isn’t a bug in the code; it’s a fundamental part of how they are built and trained.
- [How to choose retail core banking system](https://digitalbankexpert.com/2025/12/retail-core-banking-system-selection-guide) — Selecting the right retail core banking system is a crucial decision for financial institutions. It affects everything from daily operations to customer satisfaction. In this guide, we will explore essential factors to consider when choosing a core banking solution, the role of industry reports like Gartner Magic Quadrant and Forrester Wave, and a step-by-step IT procurement process. By understanding these elements, financial institutions can make informed decisions that align with their strategic goals and operational needs, ensuring long-term success and customer satisfaction.
- [Bank as a Service (BaaS): A New Business Model Transforming Financial Services](https://digitalbankexpert.com/2025/12/bank-as-a-service-baas-a-new-business-model-transforming-financial-services) — The financial services landscape is undergoing a profound shift. At the heart of this transformation is Bank as a Service (BaaS), a model that is democratising access to banking infrastructure and enabling a new generation of financial products to reach market faster than ever before.
- [Preparing for AI-Driven Workforce Transformation in Financial Services](https://digitalbankexpert.com/2025/11/ai-job-displacement-banking-2025-guide) — AI job displacement in financial services presents both challenge and opportunity. Whilst 85 million jobs will be displaced globally by AI automation, 97 million new roles will simultaneously emerge, creating a net gain of 12 million positions. However, this aggregate optimism about AI job displacement financial services masks significant disruption.
- [Eliminating Bias and Ensuring Fairness in AI-Driven Banking Systems](https://digitalbankexpert.com/2025/11/eliminating-bias-and-ensuring-fairness-in-ai-driven-banking-systems) — As artificial intelligence assumes greater responsibility for critical financial decisions, algorithmic bias has emerged as one of the most pressing ethical challenges facing the banking sector. Recent research reveals that 85% of financial services organisations currently use AI, yet concerns about bias and fairness remain inadequately addressed. AI systems can perpetuate and amplify existing inequalities in credit scoring, loan approvals, and fraud detection, threatening both regulatory compliance and customer trust. From racial and gender discrimination to age-based bias, these algorithmic failures have devastating real-world consequences for customers, particularly marginalised communities. This article examines the scale of AI bias in banking, explores transparency and explainability requirements under new regulations like the EU AI Act, and provides actionable strategies for financial institutions to build fair, accountable AI systems that serve all customers equitably.
- … and 18 more at https://digitalbankexpert.com/insights

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