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Driving Real-time Decisions,
Cloud-native Scale for a Leading
Global Payments Company

Industry: Financial Services | Global Payments

The Impact

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1,000+ payments / second

(sustained peak throughput)

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~400 days to migrate

enterprise warehouse to BigQuery

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Elastic scaling & low

latency for peak
events

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Reduced capacity planning

effort and operational overhead

What Our Client Encountered

A leading global payments company served hundreds of millions of customers across 200+ markets but struggled under on-premises constraints and legacy data platforms. Rapid digital commerce growth and extreme seasonal spikes pushed infrastructure to its limits, leading to latency, capacity risks, and slow analytics.

The client needed a secure, horizontally scalable foundation to guarantee always-on, low-latency payments globally while accelerating AI and fraud-detection initiatives. They required a partner who could design cloud-native architectures, standardise data models and ML features, and operationalise model delivery at a petabyte scale.

How ClairX Delivered

We co-designed a cloud-native
data & AI platform on Google Cloud
and BigQuery.

Our experts migrated the enterprise
data warehouse with automated,
tested ETL and streaming pipelines.

We developed standardised data
models and ML feature stores for
fraud, risk, and analytics.

Adopted managed compute,
storage, and model ops services to
reduce operational overhead.

Implemented monitoring, runbooks
and capacity automation to ensure
reliable, low-latency service during peaks.

Why This Worked

A focused combination of cloud-native engineering, automation, and model standardisation removed key operational friction and made scale predictable. The team delivered repeatable patterns that turned previously brittle processes into reliable, auditable services.

Strategic partnership with Google Cloud enabled horizontal scale and operational simplicity.

Feature standardisation reduced model variance and sped up reuse across teams.

Automation removed manual capacity planning and eliminated seasonal scaling risk.

Engineering-first delivery minimised migration downtime and preserved auditability for compliance.

The Bottom Line

The modern BigQuery-based platform delivered elastic peak throughput, low latency during seasonal surges, and dramatically lower capacity planning effort. In roughly 400 days, ClairX unlocked high-performance analytics on massive datasets, accelerated AI/ML delivery for fraud and risk use cases and enabled the company’s strategic shift from physical data centers to a secure, scalable, AI-ready cloud foundation.

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