Case studies in regulated payments infrastructure.
Real systems shipped at $1B+ GTV scale. Filter by industry, by the companies this work is most relevant to, or by compliance theme.
Six flagship builds, in depth.
Simpaisa Payment Infrastructure Platform
A regulated, multi-rail payments platform processing $1B+ annual GTV and 270M+ payments a year across pay-in, payout, wallets (DCB/IBFT), card acquiring (MPGS/MDES), settlement, FX and cross-border...
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,...
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%.
Daraz (Alibaba Group) Payment Operations Across Five Markets
Ran payment operations governance across five South Asian markets during a COVID-driven volume surge, coordinating settlement, disputes, fraud rules, reconciliation and COD-to-digital conversion.
Tapmad OTT: 0→5M Subscribers, Payment Cost 50% → ~1%
Built the billing engine for Pakistan's leading OTT platform — Direct Carrier Billing across all four telcos, wallet-billing migration that pulled payment cost from 50% of revenue to ~1%, 0→5M paid...
Production GenAI at Simpaisa, 3 Systems and 1 Banking Pilot
Identified and value-modeled three production GenAI systems across merchant integration support, incident auto-escalation and partner support automation, plus a fraud/AML AI pilot with a major banking partner.
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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;...
Cross-Border Corridors + FX Infrastructure
Cross-border pay-in and payout corridors with FX, partner routing and corridor-level economics.
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%.
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.
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.
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...