◆ Product work

Case studies in regulated payments infrastructure.

Real systems shipped at $1B+ GTV scale. Filter by the companies this work is most relevant to, or by compliance theme.

Showing 11 of 11 case studies
Simpaisa Payment Infrastructure Platform — abstract editorial illustration
Payment Infrastructure/01

Simpaisa Payment Infrastructure Platform

A regulated, multi-rail payments platform processing $1B+ annual GTV and 25M+ monthly transactions across pay-in, payout, wallets (DCB/IBFT), card acquiring (MPGS/MDES), settlement, FX and cross-border corridors, PCI DSS and ISO/IEC 27001 certified.

payment infrastructurecross-border paymentswallet platformsettlement engine
$1B+
Annual GTV
25M+
Monthly transactions
Merchant Onboarding + KYC/KYB Automation — abstract editorial illustration
Merchant Onboarding/02

Merchant Onboarding + KYC/KYB Automation

Automated merchant onboarding pipeline, KYC/KYB, UBO discovery, sanctions and PEP screening, risk-tiered decisioning with full audit trail. Activation cut from weeks to hours; manual review load down 70%.

KYC KYB automationmerchant onboardingAML CFTfintech compliance
Weeks → hours
Activation
−70%
Manual review load
Settlement + Reconciliation Engine: 99.95% Accuracy at $1B+ GTV — abstract editorial illustration
Settlement & Reconciliation/03

Settlement + Reconciliation Engine: 99.95% Accuracy at $1B+ GTV

A multi-rail settlement and reconciliation engine, canonical double-entry ledger, three-way auto-reconciliation, exception management and corridor-aware payout windows. Closed the gap between treasury, finance and product at $1B+ GTV.

settlement reconciliationpayments ledgertreasuryfintech operations
99.95%
Reconciliation accuracy
T+0 / T+1
Settlement cycle
Fraud, Risk and AML/CFT Controls: Layered Decisioning at $1B+ GTV — abstract editorial illustration
Fraud & Risk/04

Fraud, Risk and AML/CFT Controls: Layered Decisioning at $1B+ GTV

Layered fraud, AML/CFT and sanctions decisioning built natively into the payments stack, vendor signals, device intelligence, internal velocity rules, SAR-ready audit trails. Fraud loss held <0.1% of GTV; fraud incidents down ~65%.

payment fraud riskAML CFT paymentstransaction monitoringchargebacks
<0.1% GTV
Fraud loss
−65%
Fraud incidents
Cross-Border Corridors + FX Infrastructure — abstract editorial illustration
Cross-Border Payments/05

Cross-Border Corridors + FX Infrastructure

Cross-border pay-in and payout corridors with FX, partner routing and corridor-level economics.

cross-border paymentsFX infrastructureremittanceMENA fintech
6 (AE · PK · BD · NP · IQ · EG)
Corridors live
DLocal · Thunes · Boku · Coda · MoneyGram
Partner stack
Tapmad Wallet/Billing Migration: 50% to 1% — abstract editorial illustration
Product Strategy/06

Tapmad Wallet/Billing Migration: 50% to 1%

Migrated subscription billing off high-cost rails and rebuilt wallet/DCB flows, payment cost from 50% to 1%.

subscription billingDCBwallet paymentsfintech product strategy
50% → 1%
Payment cost
5M+
Paid subscribers
Daraz (Alibaba Group) Payment Operations + COD-to-Digital Conversion — abstract editorial illustration
Payment Operations/07

Daraz (Alibaba Group) Payment Operations + COD-to-Digital Conversion

Ran payment operations for South Asia's largest marketplace across 5 markets during a COVID volume surge. Designed and shipped the COD-to-digital migration as an incentives + trust program — lifted digital share ~40% and cut dispute cycles ~50%.

marketplace payment operationsCOD to digital conversionAlibaba paymentsAlipay localisation
5 (PK · BD · LK · NP · MM)
Markets
COVID 2020 (~3× baseline)
Volume surge handled
TapmadTV $3M Digital Transformation Programme — abstract editorial illustration
Program Management/08

TapmadTV $3M Digital Transformation Programme

Led a $3M programme launching Pakistan's first licensed OTT platform, 5 tech workstreams (iOS, Android, web, CMS, CDN), 25-person team, 8 international vendors, PMBOK + Agile hybrid governance.

programme managementPMOdigital transformationPMBOK
$3M
Programme value
5 (iOS · Android · Web · CMS · CDN)
Workstreams
Production GenAI Suite at Simpaisa, 4 Deployments in Regulated Payments — abstract editorial illustration
AI in Fintech/09

Production GenAI Suite at Simpaisa, 4 Deployments in Regulated Payments

Identified, value-modeled and deployed 4 production GenAI solutions across merchant integration support, incident auto-escalation, partner support automation, and a fraud/AML AI pilot with a major banking partner.

AI in paymentsGenAI fintechRAG architectureAI fraud detection
4
AI solutions in production
−65%
Merchant support time
BNPL Launch at Simpaisa: 0 → 100K Users in 8 Months — abstract editorial illustration
Product Strategy/010

BNPL Launch at Simpaisa: 0 → 100K Users in 8 Months

Launched Simpaisa's BNPL product from scratch, full underwriting, repayment flows, collections, regulator briefings, to 100K users in 8 months through iterative agile discovery.

BNPL launchbuy now pay laterconsumer credit fintechunderwriting
0 → 100K
Active users
8 months
Launch time
SWIFT MT/MX Implementation: ISO 20022 Migration + gpi at Simpaisa — abstract editorial illustration
Cross-Border Payments/011

SWIFT MT/MX Implementation: ISO 20022 Migration + gpi at Simpaisa

Wired SWIFT MT and MX (ISO 20022) messaging into the Simpaisa cross-border stack with gpi tracking, CSP attestation and dual-rail parsing — sustained 99.9%+ message-acceptance rate through the ISO 20022 migration window.

SWIFT MT MX implementationISO 20022 migrationSWIFT gpi UETRCSP attestation
MT103 · MT202 · MT940 · MT950 · pacs.008 · camt.053
Message types handled
99.9%+
Message acceptance rate