Tailor your modernisation strategy to your business outcomes
Tailor your modernisation strategy to your business outcomes
Financial institutions face increasing pressure to innovate while maintaining stability and compliance. Yet, no single modernisation approach fits every organisation. The right strategy depends on the state of your systems, your business priorities, and how quickly you need to deliver value.
Whether your goal is to cut costs, scale fast, improve performance, enhance user experience, or unlock new capabilities – we will help you choose the path that fits best.
Rehost
We move your applications to cloud infrastructure with minimal changes to the codebase. Ideal when facing rising infrastructure costs, security risks, limited data access or business continuity challenges. Rehosting improves availability, reduces infrastructure overhead, and supports hybrid-cloud strategies without disrupting business operations.
Replatform
We make small but strategic changes to improve how your apps run in the cloud - enhancing scalability, runtime performance, and compatibility with modern platforms. This is the right choice for legacy ecosystems with siloed applications, fragmented infrastructures, outdated data handling, or systems not ready for AI adoption.
Rearchitecture
We redesign your systems to better support agility, speed, scalability and future growth. We introduce modern architectures like microservices or event-driven design to reduce delivery friction and help you respond faster to business needs. It’s ideal when you need to innovate faster, team productivity and stay competitive in changing markets.
Rewrite
We incrementally rebuild your application when it’s too outdated to support growth. Old layers are replaced step by step while modernising architecture, UX, business logic and integrations - without disrupting daily operations. It’s the right choice when retrofitting adds complexity or you want to reinvent your product, operating model or launch something new - including MVPs.
Experience Enhancement
We modernise your application's front-end and customer journey - improving usability, interface design and user experience. It’s a quick and effective way to increase employee efficiency or sales conversion, especially when the back-end is functional but the interface is outdated or misaligned with business goals. From audits to full redesigns, we deliver fast wins with measurable business impact.
Choose the right modernisation path for finance
Build scalable, resilient and future-proof systems
We build systems that grow with your business - secure, scalable, and fast for change.
growth unlocked by a tailored scalability strategy
Scalability & Efficiency
By applying cloud-native techniques such as microservices, serverless, autoscaling and container orchestration, we enable your systems to scale on demand, process high volumes of secure financial transactions, and optimise resource usage.
reduction in deployment time for UK insurance company
Speed & Agility
Our approach to delivery combines the right technology, governance, and domain knowledge to accelerate development and adapt quickly to changing business needs. As a result, the applications we build are flexible, component-based and fast to evolve.
vulnerabilities
reported by clients
Security & Compliance
Security is built into everything we do. We follow Security by Design and DevSecOps practices, and we help ensure compliance with evolving regulations such as NIS2 and GDPR.
monitoring
with real-time alerting
Reliability & Resillience
We implement proven engineering practices like infrastructure-as-code, event-driven architecture, multi-region deployment and automated recovery to maximise system availability and minimise risk.
Customer and employee experience
We put customer and employee value at the centre. We support the full customer journey - from onboarding to retention - and focus on what matters most to your users. We monitor and act on measurable indicators across each stage of the lifecycle, ensuring that tech and business KPIs stay aligned. See examples of metrics we use to prove the real impact of modernisation at every step.
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01 Attract
Metrics and results:
- New subscriptions
- New clients
- New product users
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02 Convert
Metrics and results:
- Online customer purchases
- Performance issues leading to user exits
- Online process completions
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03 Engage
Metrics and results:
- Transaction completion time
- Process completion time
- Client onboarding time
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04 Support
Metrics and results:
- Reduced process completion time
- Increased sales from A/B testing
- Improved system usage satisfaction
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05 Protect
Metrics and results:
- Zero cybersecurity issues
- No data breaches caused by technology
- All “green” results from penetration tests
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06 Retain
Metrics and results:
- Increased usage of system features over time
- Higher client retention
- Increased sales
What makes us different?
In highly regulated environments like finance, there’s no room for guesswork. We measure everything - and we stand behind it.
Our unique approach to application modernisation focuses on three key areas that drive real results:
- Business value first - guided by our Total-Metrics Driven Approach
- Strategic delivery - through Continuous Value Discovery
- Tactical wins - with measurable outcomes from as early as week four
Say goodbye to:
- No metrics on development progress
- Missed release deadlines
- Too many bugs in production
- Unclear impact of engineering work
- No visibility into delivered value
- Lack of ROI from modernisation
Is your financial organisation ready to modernise?
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Value-led modernisation with guaranteed results
We know how to align engineering performance with business goals - and we measure it. Our clients gain full visibility into value delivery across iterative cycles and benefit from a modernisation strategy that adapts to real business needs. We’re confident in our model. That’s why we offer written guarantees on agreed value metrics.
At the start of our Platform Engineering engagement with a UK-based insurance company, we committed to being the key value drivers of their transformation. We agreed on a velocity benchmark for our experts - if it wasn’t met, the customer would not incur the associated cost. Due to a complex onboarding process, part of the team initially fell short of the benchmark.
However, the team ultimately doubled the overall velocity, enabling us to meet critical business deadlines and empowering the company to onboard new customers within 2 weeks instead of 6 months.
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Fast value-to-market and strategic value in the long run
You don’t have to wait months to see results. Our approach delivers measurable value from as early as week four, focusing on the areas with the greatest business impact.
We work in two complementary delivery modes tailored to your goals:
- Tactical quick wins in just 4 weeks - Early improvements delivered within the first weeks. They bring fast results, enable smarter decisions, optimise costs, and accelerate delivery.
- Strategic, continuous value delivery - Ongoing, ROI-driven delivery aligned with your long-term goals. We track value, monitor risks and adapt to changing priorities.
Quick wins: sample 4-week deliverables
- Audits & assessments – Technical, UX and FinOps insights
- System overview – Architecture maps and dashboards
- Early prototypes – Mockups, PoCs and MVPs
- Optimisations – Software, servers, databases
- Market insights – Competitive analysis and improvement areas
- DevOps setup – Faster, more reliable delivery from the start
Continuous value: how we deliver long-term ROI
- Aligning architecture-led delivery with business goals
- Proactively searching for high-impact opportunities
- Monitoring tech and business metrics together
- Reporting regularly to show what’s being delivered and why
- Acting beyond assigned tasks to find added value
- Considering the broader ecosystem, not just the current scope
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Proven in the most complex environments
With over 25 years of experience, we support enterprise and mid-sized clients in some of the world’s most demanding and regulated industries, including finance, insurance, media and transportation.
We understand the challenges of operating in high-compliance environments with sensitive financial data and critical systems. Our consultants know how to bring order to complexity - using proven methods, they analyse and untangle legacy environments, fragmented infrastructures, outdated processes and unstructured data.
From initial assessment to complete transformation, we work alongside our clients’ teams to modernise securely, ensure compliance and deliver results that make a real difference.
How we deliver value in financial services
How we deliver value in financial services
OTI Capital
OTI Capital
21.finance AG
21.finance AG
FIS
FIS
