Banking & Financial Services

The Kafka platform for European banks

Real-time citizen services, cross-agency data exchange, and complete auditability on infrastructure that never leaves your borders. On-premises, hybrid, or cloud.

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500M

Messages/day,
Rabobank

10s→<1s

Payment latency,
PTSB

50+

Teams on self-service, ASN Bank

4 months

To production,
PTSB

Banking on batch

Batch processing slows
real-time banking transactions

TM, POS, mobile, and web generate events every second. Core banking, cards, and payments still move in batches, and every fraud rule, AML check, and customer notification waits on them.

Why European banks Choose Axual

Four problems,
‍one streaming layer

Real-time payments

Sub-second processing across cards, balances, and account overviews. SEPA-compliant flows with schema validation on every event.

Compliance & governance

Every event traceable, every access logged. 2026.1 adds full audit events across the platform.

Fraud, KYC & AML

Onboard third-party providers in parallel without touching core systems. Score transactions in-stream.

Customer experience

App teams publish and consume streams through self-service, so personalised actions fire as events happen.

Controls

Authentication: mTLS, SASL, and OAuth

Authorisation: RBAC and ABAC, with ownership groups and approval workflows

Apicurio schema registry with OAuth, validation enforced on every event

Audit history includes every create, modify, delete, access request, and approval across topics, applications, schemas, groups, environments, clusters, tenants, and users, filterable by resource, actor, action, and time range

Environment separation between development, staging, and production

Kubernetes-native; Terraform-managed

DORA
compliant

ISO 27001 compliant

GDPR
compliant

SOC 2
compliant

ISO 20022
compliant

View our ISO 27001 certification

Topic, application, schema, and connector management in one interface

Apicurio schema registry with OAuth

mTLS, SASL, OAuth; RBAC and ABAC

Multi-cluster sync, multi-AZ resilience

Consumer-offset reset by timestamp

Kubernetes-native; Terraform-managed

Banks in production

Regulated, at scale, for years

Rabobank

9M+ customers 500M messages/day. 600+ production streams. 300+ teams on governed self-service. Zero unplanned downtime. €500k annual maintenance savings.

ASN Bank

Multi-brand Dutch financial services provider Legacy MQ and fragmented clusters replaced by one governed platform. 50+ teams onboarded. 3 DevOps teams freed. Multi-AZ with automatic failover. On-prem events reaching cloud analytics.

PTSB

1M+ customers, no in-house Kafka expertise Latency 10s → under 1s. 100% SEPA-compliant processing. 99.99% availability. Live in 4 months.

Frequently asked questions

Does Axual meet DORA requirements?

Axual records all data flows, access events, and system changes with full audit trails, and enforces governance controls automatically. Compliance is shared: Axual provides the controls and evidence, your organisation defines the policies.

How does Axual handle SEPA and ISO 20022?

Payment events are validated against registered schemas in flight, and ISO 20022 structures are maintained across real-time flows.

Can events flow between on-prem and cloud?

Yes. Multi-cluster synchronisation supports hybrid deployments — on-prem transaction events reaching cloud analytics, as ASN Bank does today.

Can app teams work without direct Kafka access?

Yes. They work through Self-Service APIs and the portal. Ownership groups, environments, and approvals are enforced by the platform, so no Kafka credentials are issued to teams.

We already run Strimzi. Do we have to migrate?

No. Deploy Axual Governance on top of your existing Strimzi environment, or have Axual operate it under an enterprise SLA.

How much does it cost?

Pricing depends on deployment model, support level, and scale. Contact us for a quote.

The Kafka platform for European banks

Batch processing slows
real-time banking transactions