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Data and AI Solutions for Banking and Financial Services
Modernize core data, detect fraud in real time, sharpen credit decisions and meet supervisory expectations with governed data platforms and explainable AI built for regulated finance.
Turn Financial Data into Faster, Safer Decisions
Banks, credit unions, lenders, wealth managers and fintechs sit on some of the richest data in any industry: transactions, payment messages, credit histories, customer interactions and market feeds. Yet much of it is locked in decades-old cores, overnight batch jobs and spreadsheets that feed regulatory returns. Modern data platforms, machine learning and cloud infrastructure let institutions act on that data in seconds rather than days, from blocking a mule payment to pre-approving a small business loan.
Hanoi Technology helps financial institutions build that capability without compromising control. We design lakehouse and warehouse platforms with lineage that satisfies auditors, deploy fraud and credit models with documentation that model risk teams can validate, and build the APIs that open banking and embedded finance depend on. Every engagement is planned around your supervisory obligations, not bolted on afterwards.
The Challenge
The Data Challenges Facing Financial Institutions
Regulators, fraudsters and digital-native competitors are all moving faster, and legacy data estates struggle to keep up.
Fragmented Legacy Cores and Batch Data
Customer, account and transaction data is spread across core banking, card, lending and treasury systems that were never designed to share it. Overnight batch extracts mean risk, finance and marketing work from different versions of yesterday.
Escalating Fraud and Financial Crime
Instant payments, authorized push payment scams and synthetic identities give criminals seconds to move money. Rules-based monitoring generates high false-positive volumes that overwhelm investigators while still missing new typologies.
Heavy and Changing Regulatory Load
Capital and liquidity reporting, BCBS 239 risk data aggregation principles, operational resilience rules such as the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), and AI-specific obligations demand traceable, reconciled data. Manual reporting chains are slow, costly and hard to defend in an examination.
Model Risk and Explainability Requirements
Credit, pricing and fraud models must be documented, validated, monitored and explainable to customers and supervisors under guidance such as the US SR 11-7 model risk framework. Many promising machine learning projects stall because governance was not designed in from day one.
Business Value
What Modern Data and AI Deliver for Financial Services
Real-Time Fraud and AML Detection
Score payments, card transactions and onboarding events in milliseconds using behavioral and network features. Investigators spend their time on genuinely suspicious activity instead of clearing false alerts.
Sharper, Fairer Credit Decisions
Combine bureau, transaction and cash-flow data to approve good borrowers faster and price risk more accurately. Built-in fairness testing and reason codes keep decisions explainable.
Faster, Traceable Regulatory Reporting
Automated pipelines with end-to-end lineage shorten reporting cycles and reduce reconciliation effort. Auditors can trace every reported figure back to its source system.
A Single View of the Customer
Unify accounts, products, interactions and preferences into one governed profile. Relationship managers and digital channels can offer the next relevant product at the right moment.
Lower Operating Costs
Automate document-heavy processes such as KYC refresh, loan servicing and dispute handling with intelligent document processing and workflow. Teams handle higher volumes without proportional headcount growth.
Resilient, Scalable Infrastructure
Cloud and hybrid platforms designed with resilience testing, exit plans and third-party risk controls in mind. You scale for peak volumes while meeting operational resilience expectations.
Trust Is the Product in Financial Services
A bank’s data and AI capability is only as valuable as the confidence that supervisors, auditors and customers place in it. That is why we treat lineage, model documentation, access control and resilience as core features of every solution, delivered alongside the analytics rather than months later.
Our Services
Our Banking and Financial Services Solutions
Six solution areas that cover the full journey from raw transactions to governed, AI-driven decisions.
Core Data Modernization
We move risk, finance and customer data off brittle legacy warehouses onto modern lakehouse or cloud warehouse platforms, with change data capture from core systems and reconciled, versioned data layers.
- Target data architecture and migration plan
- CDC pipelines from core banking and card systems
- Reconciliation and data quality controls
Fraud and Financial Crime Analytics
We build real-time scoring for payments, cards and onboarding, combining supervised models, anomaly detection and graph analytics to expose mule networks and synthetic identities.
- Streaming feature store and scoring service
- Graph-based network and mule detection
- Alert triage dashboards for investigators
Credit Risk and Decisioning
We develop application, behavioral and early-warning models, IFRS 9 and CECL expected-loss components, and decision engines that combine models with policy rules.
- Scorecards and machine learning models with reason codes
- Model documentation for validation teams
- Champion and challenger monitoring
Regulatory Reporting and Risk Data
We automate the data supply chain behind regulatory returns and internal risk reports, aligned with BCBS 239 principles for accuracy, completeness and timeliness.
- Lineage from source to reported figure
- Automated data quality rules and attestations
- Reporting data marts and controls evidence
Open Banking and Payments Data
We build secure APIs, consent management and data services for open banking and open finance, and help institutions use rich ISO 20022 payment data for analytics and screening.
- API design aligned with FAPI security profiles
- ISO 20022 message parsing and data models
- Consent and access audit trails
Generative AI for Banking Operations
We deploy assistants grounded in policies, product terms and procedures for contact centers, relationship managers and operations, with guardrails, human review and full logging.
- Policy and procedure knowledge assistant
- Document extraction for KYC and lending
- Evaluation sets and usage monitoring
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Services for Banking and Financial Services
- Credit Risk ManagementScorecards, expected-loss models and decision engines.Learn more
- Data Warehouse ModernizationMove risk and finance data to a modern platform.Learn more
- Data GovernanceLineage, ownership and controls that satisfy auditors.Learn more
- Machine LearningFraud, churn and propensity models in production.Learn more
- Generative AIGrounded assistants for operations and service teams.Learn more
- SecurityProtect customer data and meet resilience expectations.Learn more
Our Approach
How We Engage with Financial Institutions
A delivery model designed to pass risk, compliance and procurement review as smoothly as it ships working software.
- 01
Regulatory and Data Landscape Review
We map the systems, data flows, regulatory obligations and model inventory relevant to the initiative, and agree with risk and compliance stakeholders how evidence will be produced.
Deliverables: Obligations and controls map · Current-state data flow diagram
- 02
Use Case Prioritization and Business Case
Together with business owners we score candidate use cases on value, data readiness and regulatory sensitivity, then select a first release with measurable outcomes.
Deliverables: Prioritized use-case backlog · Success metrics and baseline
- 03
Secure Platform Foundation
We set up environments, access controls, encryption, logging and data classification that align with your security policies and third-party risk requirements before production data is loaded.
Deliverables: Reference architecture · Security and access design
- 04
Build, Validate and Document
Engineers and data scientists deliver in sprints with demos, while models are developed with the documentation, testing and explainability your validation function expects.
Deliverables: Working pipelines and models · Model and data documentation packs
- 05
Production Run and Continuous Monitoring
We hand over runbooks and dashboards, or operate the solution as a managed service, monitoring data quality, model drift and performance with clear escalation paths.
Deliverables: Runbooks and SLAs · Drift and performance monitoring
Use Cases
Banking and Financial Services Use Cases
Concrete scenarios where data and AI change outcomes for institutions and their customers.
Instant Payment Scam Prevention
A bank scores every outgoing instant payment against the customer’s normal behavior, the payee’s history and mule network signals. High-risk payments trigger a real-time warning or hold before money leaves the account.
Cash-Flow-Based SME Lending
A lender uses consented account transaction data to assess small businesses with thin credit files. Underwriters receive a recommended limit with reason codes, cutting decision time from days to hours.
Automated Regulatory Return Preparation
A finance team replaces spreadsheet consolidation with governed pipelines that populate reporting templates. Every figure carries lineage and data quality evidence for auditors.
Next-Best-Action for Retail Customers
Propensity models identify customers likely to need a mortgage, savings product or credit line increase. Digital channels and advisors receive timely, compliant offers instead of broad campaigns.
KYC Refresh with Document AI
Generative and extraction models read identity documents, company registries and ownership statements. Analysts review pre-filled profiles and discrepancies rather than re-keying data.
Collections Prioritization
Early-warning models predict which borrowers are likely to fall behind and which contact strategy works best. Collections teams intervene earlier with more appropriate, customer-friendly options.
Technology
Platforms and Standards We Work With in Financial Services
We build on proven cloud data platforms and the industry standards your ecosystem already speaks.
- ISO 20022
- Open Banking APIs
- FAPI 2.0
- SWIFT MT and MX
- Databricks
- Snowflake
- Azure
- AWS
- Google Cloud
- Apache Kafka
- dbt
- Neo4j
- MLflow
- Power BI
- Collibra
- Temenos and core banking integrations
Platforms
Deliver Banking and Financial Services on Your Preferred Platform
- Microsoft AzureModernize data, analytics and AI within your Azure tenant.Explore
- AWSBuild, migrate and run data and AI workloads on Amazon Web Services.Explore
- Google CloudBigQuery, Looker and Vertex AI for data-driven organizations.Explore
- DatabricksUnified lakehouse for data engineering, analytics and AI.Explore
- SnowflakeElastic cloud data platform for analytics and data sharing.Explore
Why Hanoi Technology
Why Organizations Choose Hanoi Technology
Senior, Cross-Functional Teams
Strategy, data, AI, cloud and engineering specialists work as one team, so nothing is lost between hand-offs.
Proven Delivery
More than 50 projects delivered for clients in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
Radical Transparency
A written update every week and a demo of working software every sprint, so you always know where things stand.
Cost-Effective Global Delivery
Experienced engineers from our Hanoi delivery hub, with working-hour overlap for every major time zone.
Success Story · Fintech
All-in-one digital banking app for a traditional bank
A traditional financial institution wanted to compete with neobanks for mobile-first customers. We replaced a set of separate banking, investing and payment apps with one product that people use every day.
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Build a Safer, Smarter Data Foundation for Your Institution
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Banking and Financial Services FAQ
Can you work within our regulatory and security requirements?
Yes. Every engagement starts by mapping the obligations that apply to the initiative, such as data residency, outsourcing and third-party risk rules, operational resilience requirements and model risk guidance. We then design access controls, encryption, logging and documentation to match. Our engineers can work inside your environments with your identity controls, so production customer data does not need to leave your infrastructure. We also provide the evidence your security, procurement and compliance teams typically request during onboarding.
How do you make machine learning models acceptable to model risk and validation teams?
We develop models with validation in mind from the first sprint. That means documented data sources and assumptions, reproducible training pipelines, benchmark comparisons against simpler models, stability and sensitivity testing, fairness analysis where relevant and reason codes for individual decisions. We produce a documentation pack structured around your model risk policy and set up post-deployment monitoring for drift and performance, so validators can review a complete, traceable package rather than reverse-engineering notebooks.
What does a typical fraud detection project involve and how long does it take?
A first release usually focuses on one channel, such as card-not-present payments or instant transfers. We profile historical labeled data, engineer behavioral and network features, train and back-test models and integrate scoring with your payment flow or case management tool. A pilot running in shadow mode alongside existing rules can typically be ready in about three to four months, depending on data access and integration complexity. Shadow mode lets you compare results before switching decisions over.
Can you help with ISO 20022 payment data?
Yes. The migration to ISO 20022 gives institutions structured, richer remittance and party information than legacy formats. We build parsers and data models that capture this structure, feed it into analytics and screening, and improve sanctions and fraud detection accuracy. We can also help reconcile legacy and ISO 20022 data during coexistence periods so reporting and analytics remain consistent while different payment systems migrate on different timelines.
Do you work with our core banking platform?
We integrate with core, card, lending and payment platforms through their APIs, database replicas, event streams or file interfaces, depending on what the vendor and your architecture allow. We prefer change data capture or event streaming where possible to move from overnight batch to near real-time data. We do not replace your core system; instead we make its data accessible and trustworthy for analytics, AI and digital channels while respecting change-management controls.
What engagement models do you offer to banks and fintechs?
You can engage us for a fixed-scope project, such as a reporting data mart or fraud model, a dedicated team that works as an extension of your data and engineering organization, or managed services where we operate pipelines and models in production. All models include weekly written progress updates and sprint demos. Many institutions start with a short discovery or proof of value and then scale to a dedicated team once the first use case is in production.