Most banks still depend on legacy core banking systems designed for on-prem infrastructure. But modern fintech workloads, real-time payments, AI systems, and evolving regulations like DPDP are forcing a very different architecture.
At Slice small finance bank, we took a different path - building and operating a deeply cloud-native banking platform on Kubernetes while handling strict uptime, security, and compliance requirements from day one.
In this short keynote, I’ll share some real engineering problems we faced while running regulated banking systems on cloud-native infrastructure:
- handling PII safely inside observability pipelines
- enforcing security and compliance at platform level
- rethinking legacy CBS assumptions for Kubernetes environments
- balancing reliability, developer velocity, and regulation together
This is not a tooling talk. It is about how regulation is starting to reshape cloud-native architecture itself.
As India’s fintech ecosystem grows, the patterns emerging here may influence how modern regulated systems are built globally.
