When Pay.UK needed to enhance fraud reimbursement tracking and meet strict APPR regulatory requirements, they partnered with Advania to modernise their data platform using Microsoft Fabric and Azure and improving data quality, reporting speed, and regulatory confidence.
šAt a glance
- Leading UK financial services infrastructure provider
- Needed improved fraud reimbursement tracking
- Required APPR compliance reporting
- 600+ workforce supporting UK payments ecosystem
šØThe challenge
Pay.UK needed to improve data handling and reporting processes to meet the Payment Systems Regulatorās APPR requirements.
Tracking reimbursements between Payment Service Providers required improved governance, data quality, and analytics.
š”The approach
Advania implemented a Microsoft Fabric-based data platform including:
- Secure data landing zone with SFTP-enabled lake
- ETL pipelines into Fabric Lakehouse
- Semantic data modelling for fraud reporting
- DevOps integration and governance controls
- Managed Azure services for ongoing support
āļøThe outcome
- Improved data accuracy and consistency
- Faster access to regulatory reporting
- Upskilled Pay.UK teams on Microsoft Fabric
- Reduced risk in adopting new data platforms
- Ongoing managed Azure support
ā”ļøWhy this matters
APPR compliance isnāt just a regulatory box-tick, it depends on having trusted, timely data and the governance to prove it.
This work shows how teams can use Microsoft Fabric + strong data foundations to improve data quality, speed up reporting, and reduce operational risk, while building a platform thatās scalable for future requirements.
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