Financial Services & Payments. Six workloads, one endpoint.
Aggregators, PSPs, networks & fintech platforms — the workloads below need more than one data model at once, which is exactly why they stall on a stitched stack.
Payment aggregators and gateways, card issuers and networks, UPI/TPAP players, neo-banks and embedded-finance platforms processing 1M+ transactions per day.
The forcing function.
Payments is a real-time business bolted onto batch infrastructure. Risk signals — merchant history, device graph, dispute text, sanctions lists, behavioural embeddings — sit in five stores with five consistency models. The moment a fraud ring adapts faster than the sync job, the stack is structurally behind. An atomic multi-modal write removes the lag by construction.
The payments fraud graph — a ring detected across cards, devices and beneficiaries is blocked in the same store the authorisation reads.
of RAG system failures occur at the retrieval stage, not in the model — industry benchmark
of firms abandoned most AI initiatives in 2025, up from 17% a year earlier — S&P Global
consistency models collapsed into one atomic write across every query shape
Six workloads, five query shapes.
Almost no workload here needs only one data model — which is why single-model databases deliver it only with a second system and a sync problem.
Score a new merchant against every merchant you have ever onboarded — vector similarity over business profile and website content, graph checks on shared directors, accounts and addresses, full-text search over adverse media, in one call.
Onboarding decisions in minutes instead of days, with fewer high-risk merchants slipping through.
Score the transaction against the live entity graph — card, device, IP, beneficiary, merchant — joined with embedding similarity over historic fraud. Every write is instantly visible to every query shape, so a ring detected now is blocked now.
Lower fraud loss ratio and fewer false declines — the two numbers that move payment margin.
Full-text and semantic search over dispute narratives, chargeback reason codes and evidence bundles, joined with the structured transaction record to auto-assemble representment packs.
Higher dispute win rate; sharply reduced manual evidence assembly.
Break analysis across acquirer, network, bank and merchant ledgers modelled as a graph of related entries — ask “which settlements are unmatched and why” in plain language rather than waiting on a BI ticket.
Faster settlement close; unreconciled float reduced and visible daily.
Fuzzy full-text plus multilingual vector matching against watchlists, with graph expansion to beneficial owners and related parties — replacing brittle exact-match screening that misses transliterations.
Fewer false hits per screened name; defensible evidence for every clear decision.
Per-partner cohort, funnel and risk analytics on live data, queryable conversationally by commercial teams without a data-engineering dependency.
Partner economics visible in-quarter, not one quarter late.
Impact statements are directional targets referenced to published industry research — calibrate against your own baseline.
The stack this replaces in Financial Services & Payments.
Five licences, five sync jobs, five security perimeters — collapsed into one atomic store.
Risk, growth and reconciliation reading the same row at the same instant — the only way real-time payments AI holds up under an adaptive adversary.