Industry
Payments & Fintech
A Global Digital Payments Leader Cuts Compliance Costs 35% with a Unified Governance, Risk, and Compliance Engine
reduction in total cost of compliance operations
reduction in turnaround time for compliance cases
reached within 2 months of production install, all legacy apps decommissioned
Fintech survival depends on innovating quickly inside a complex, highly regulated environment. For this global digital payments leader, siloed compliance applications and fragmented processes across 26 countries were slowing down product launches and adding unnecessary operational cost.
Altimetrik built a scalable, extensible end-to-end governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) system that keeps pace with changing regulations across markets, and implemented a unified workflow process that prevents slowdowns when launching new consumer products. The new system went live across 26 countries within 2 months, with all legacy applications fully decommissioned.
The client needed an extremely rapid agile implementation to replace the most inflexible components of its legacy compliance application, while ensuring the business could continue operating without interruption. The legacy system had become a bottleneck: fragmented compliance processes across countries made it difficult to launch new consumer products quickly without creating inconsistent risk oversight.
Any system replacement at this scale carries significant risk with 26 countries dependent on the compliance platform for daily operations, any disruption to the transition would have direct product launch and regulatory consequences. The replacement had to be simultaneous and seamless.
For a global digital payments company, compliance is not a back-office function it is a direct enabler or blocker of revenue. Every new product launch, every new market entry, every acquisition triggers compliance processes. A fragmented, slow compliance system that spans 26 countries doesn’t just add cost it determines how fast the business can grow.
Altimetrik brought the new GRC system to life through a tightly managed, agile delivery approach. Automated analysis rapidly created a prioritized product backlog, replacing the typical lengthy requirements phase with actionable delivery velocity from the first sprint.
Ambitious time-to-market and quality targets were set and maintained through continuous KPI reviews. Automated data quality checks and DevOps principles with automated pipelines replaced manual compliance verification, reducing both effort and error rate across the SDLC.
Reusable UI and server-side components were built to accelerate deployment and adaptation across all 26 country implementations, enabling the platform to go live globally within 2 months while decommissioning all legacy compliance applications in parallel.
Altimetrik approached compliance not as a defensive cost center but as a product launch accelerator building a GRC engine that makes it faster and cheaper to bring new products to market across 26 countries simultaneously.
The new system went live faster than a traditional compliance platform replacement would typically take to complete requirements a reflection of how Altimetrik combines aggressive agile delivery with quality engineering to de-risk transformations that other delivery approaches treat as high-risk projects.
“Amit Singh is the Chief Strategy Officer and Chief of Staff to the CEO at Altimetrik, where he drives corporate strategy, growth acceleration, and value creation through transformation initiatives. In this dual role, he partners closely with leadership teams, investors, and the board to align business strategy with sustained, technology-driven growth.
With over two decades of experience at the intersection of technology, business, and transformation, Amit brings a unique perspective on how organizations can innovate and adapt in a rapidly evolving digital landscape. His career has been defined by building high-performing teams, scaling innovative platforms, and driving organizational change to deliver lasting impact.
Before joining Altimetrik, Amit held senior leadership roles at Visa, where he led technology strategy, engineering, and product development for Real-Time Payments and the Visa Developer Platform. Earlier, he served as Chief Product Officer at a startup and spent more than a decade at Oracle, leading product and engineering teams across a wide range of enterprise software applications.”
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