Services for financial institutions

Technology that moves finance forward

For ten years Finlabs has helped wealth managers, distributors, insurers and financial institutions design, secure and scale the technology their clients depend on. Seasoned experts, solutions tailored to your stack, and results you can measure.

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  • 10+years in fintech
  • 5specialist services
  • End-to-endconsult · implement · manage

Our services

Five practices. One accountable team

Each practice can run on its own or as part of a wider programme. Pick where you need help — we'll bring the specialists and own the outcome with you.

01/ 05

UI / UX Consulting

Interfaces your clients actually enjoy using.

User-centred design, intuitive interface development and seamless experiences that drive engagement and satisfaction. We start with the people who use your product, then turn what we learn into a design system your engineers can build from.

What we do

  • User interviews, journey mapping and analytics review
  • Information architecture and task flows
  • Wireframes, high-fidelity design and clickable prototypes
  • Usability testing with real advisors and investors

You walk away with

  • A tokenised design system and component library
  • Developer-ready specs and Storybook documentation
  • An accessibility audit against WCAG 2.2 AA
  • A prioritised UX improvement backlog
  1. Discover
  2. Define
  3. Design
  4. Validate
  5. Handoff
  • Figma
  • Design tokens
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Storybook
  • WCAG 2.2
Talk to us about UI / UX
02/ 05

Application & Infra Audits

Find the weak points before anyone else does.

A thorough analysis and evaluation of your applications and infrastructure to identify vulnerabilities, optimise performance and enhance security — delivered as findings ranked by severity and a remediation plan sequenced by risk against effort.

What we do

  • Static and dynamic application security testing
  • Dependency, SBOM and open-source licence review
  • Infrastructure-as-code and CIS benchmark checks
  • Load and performance profiling under peak traffic

You walk away with

  • Findings scored by CVSS severity with evidence
  • A remediation roadmap your team can execute
  • Performance baselines and latency budgets
  • An executive summary for your board or regulator
  1. Scope
  2. Scan
  3. Analyse
  4. Report
  5. Retest
  • OWASP ASVS
  • SAST / DAST
  • SonarQube
  • Trivy
  • k6
  • CIS Benchmarks
Book an audit conversation
03/ 05

Cybersecurity

Security your regulator and your clients can rely on.

Comprehensive threat assessment, advanced defence strategies and proactive risk mitigation to safeguard your digital assets. We map your real attack surface, harden it around zero-trust principles, and wire in detection your team can actually run.

What we do

  • Threat modelling and attack-surface mapping
  • Identity redesign: zero trust, IAM roles and MFA
  • Encryption at rest and in transit with managed keys
  • Penetration testing and incident-response drills

You walk away with

  • A risk register with owners and treatment plans
  • Controls mapped to ISO 27001 and SOC 2
  • SIEM detections and SOAR response playbooks
  • Evidence packs ready for audit
  1. Assess
  2. Harden
  3. Detect
  4. Respond
  5. Assure
  • Zero Trust
  • ISO 27001
  • SOC 2
  • SIEM / SOAR
  • IAM · MFA
  • KMS / HSM
Talk to a security lead
04/ 05

Cloud Architecture Review

Pay for the cloud you need — and nothing you don't.

A meticulous examination of your cloud infrastructure to optimise efficiency, security and scalability. We review against each provider's own framework, find the optimisation opportunities, and quantify the savings before you commit to anything.

What we do

  • AWS Well-Architected, Azure CAF and Google Cloud reviews
  • Landing zone, network and IAM assessment
  • Terraform drift and infrastructure-as-code coverage
  • Resilience modelling across zones and regions

You walk away with

  • A right-sizing and FinOps plan with costs modelled
  • Security, scalability and cost-efficiency scorecard
  • A target architecture and migration sequence
  • Guardrails as code for every new workload
  1. Inventory
  2. Assess
  3. Model
  4. Recommend
  5. Optimise
  • AWS
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Google Cloud
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • FinOps
Get a cloud review AWS, Azure & Google Cloud
05/ 05

Digital Transformation Strategy

A roadmap you can actually ship, one wave at a time.

Crafted roadmaps that leverage cutting-edge technologies, data-driven insights and agile methodologies. We inventory the legacy estate, agree a target architecture, and sequence the change so the business keeps running while it moves.

What we do

  • Legacy inventory and capability-gap analysis
  • Target architecture: microservices, events, APIs
  • Technology stack optimisation
  • Agile adoption and delivery-team enablement

You walk away with

  • A phased roadmap with clear migration waves
  • CI/CD pipelines and release automation
  • A data platform plan: lakehouse and MLOps
  • Delivery metrics tracked against DORA
  1. Assess
  2. Design
  3. Pilot
  4. Scale
  5. Enable
  • Microservices
  • Event-driven
  • API-first
  • CI / CD
  • Data lakehouse
  • MLOps
Plan your roadmap with us

How we work

From first conversation to systems that run themselves

Consulting is where most engagements begin. When you want us to build it and look after it too, the same team carries on.

01

Consult

Advice grounded in your stack and your regulators: the five practices above, run by specialists who know financial services.

  • UI / UX and audits
  • Security and cloud reviews
  • Transformation roadmaps
See the practices →

02

Implement

We translate the plan into practical, efficient solutions — with minimal disruption, and built to scale securely.

  • Websites, apps and digital assets
  • Process automation and workflows
  • Analytics and QA automation
See Digital Transformation Strategy →

03

Manage

Cloud-focused managed services: deploying, running and optimising your infrastructure for security and performance.

  • Cloud deployment and management
  • Security and performance tuning
  • Proactive infrastructure support
See Cloud Architecture Review →
  1. Intro callA short call on Microsoft Teams about what you need.
  2. ScopingWe look at your stack, constraints and goals.
  3. ProposalClear scope, team and deliverables — no surprises.
  4. Kick-offYour specialists start, with a single point of contact.

Why Finlabs

A decade inside financial technology

Seasoned experts

Specialists who pair industry knowledge with a working understanding of current technology.

Tailored, not templated

Every recommendation is shaped around your stack, your team and your constraints.

Transparent communication

You always know what we're doing, why, and what it will cost.

Quality standards

Work reviewed against recognised frameworks, not just opinion.

Measurable results

We agree what success looks like up front, then report against it.

Ethical practice

Your data, your clients and your reputation are treated as ours.

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