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News from the networks we build in.

A selection of external coverage, interviews and ecosystem updates that feature Bugni Labs — from credit platforms and economic crime prevention to AI-native risk intelligence and regulatory TechSprints.

Industry event2023

TechPros / FintelligenX

Combating APP fraud in financial services: industry roundtable

A roundtable discussion bringing together industry experts to examine the growing challenge of authorised push payment fraud, exploring multi-agent detection architectures, explainable AI, and the regulatory landscape shaping fraud prevention in UK financial services.

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Engineering delivery2020

Bugni Labs

Bugni Labs delivers cloud-native digital banking platform on Google Cloud

Bugni Labs delivered a greenfield digital banking platform on Google Cloud — engineering ISO 20022 payment services, BIAN-aligned data services and open banking adapters that set the engineering standards for the programme.

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Engineering delivery2021

Bugni Labs

Bugni Labs delivers hybrid cloud strategy for core banking transformation

Bugni Labs delivered a hybrid cloud strategy and migration roadmap for core banking workloads — introducing elastic burst capacity, domain-aligned service decomposition and platform-level observability without a disruptive big-bang migration.

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Regulator & ecosystem2023

FCA/PSR

Fastest solution at the FCA Authorised Push Payment Fraud TechSprint

The Bugni Labs team participated in the FCA and Payment Systems Regulator APP Fraud TechSprint, collaborating with industry peers to design practical solutions for scam detection and consumer protection — and received the "Fastest" award for a solution with near-term impact potential.

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Leadership spotlight2023

TechPros / FintelligenX

CEO Spotlight: Abhay Chrungoo on AI-Native Engineering and the future of financial services

An in-depth interview with Abhay Chrungoo, CEO of Bugni Labs and FintelligenX, exploring the vision behind AI-Native Engineering, the role of domain-driven design in regulated industries, and the future of engineering organisations in financial services.

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Leadership spotlight2023

TechPros / FintelligenX

CTO Spotlight: Kamal Shah on engineering excellence in regulated financial services

An interview with Kamal Shah, CTO of Bugni Labs and FintelligenX, on building high-performing engineering teams, platform architecture for regulated institutions, and the principles behind delivering complex systems at pace.

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Award & recognition2024

ICA (International Compliance Association)

Economic crime prevention platform shortlisted at the ICA Awards

The economic crime prevention platform built by Bugni Labs for Lloyds Banking Group was shortlisted at the International Compliance Association Awards — recognising the platform's impact on screening modernisation, orchestration and compliance outcomes.

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Client partnership2021

FinTech Futures

UK neobank partners with Bugni Labs for cloud-native credit engine

Coverage of how a UK digital bank selected Bugni Labs to design and build its cloud-native, microservices-based credit engine — a core platform capability underpinning future lending products and data-driven decisioning.

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Client partnership2021

Finextra

Building a bespoke credit decisioning platform with Bugni Labs

Announcement article outlining Kroo's strategy to co-create a bespoke credit decision engine with Bugni Labs, combining proprietary, open banking and bureau data to deliver more accurate, transparent lending decisions.

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Client partnership2021

FinTech Futures

Kroo moves from fintech to fully licensed bank

News of Kroo securing its UK banking licence, noting the earlier collaboration with Bugni Labs to build its credit engine as part of the mobilisation to become a full-stack social bank.

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Economic crime prevention2023

TechPros / FintelligenX

Modernising economic crime prevention for a digital-native bank

Interview with the Engineering Lead for Economic Crime Prevention, detailing how Bugni Labs helped architect and deliver an e-crime prevention as a service platform, including code generation and modern runtime design that dramatically reduced engineering effort and delivery timelines.

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Economic crime prevention2023

TechPros / FintelligenX

Delivering economic crime prevention innovation with Lloyds Banking Group

An in-depth interview with the Product Owner for List Screening at a major UK bank, describing how a four-month collaboration with Bugni Labs delivered a next-generation screening engine with advanced matching, explainability and dynamic configuration — "groundbreaking and a path to the future."

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AI & risk intelligence2023

FintelligenX

Risk assessment in financial services: toward proactive risk intelligence

Article on the shift from reactive to proactive risk management, highlighting how Bugni Labs is co-developing an AI-powered risk intelligence product for financial institutions to detect threats earlier and respond with more precision.

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Why we surface external coverage

We treat external coverage as another feedback signal.

When clients, journalists or regulators talk about our work, they tend to focus on a few consistent themes:

Speed with integrity

delivering at "fintech pace" without trading away safety, traceability or regulatory confidence.

Depth of engineering

solving foundational problems in architecture, runtime design, and risk controls rather than packaging surface-level features.

Partnership mindset

embedding with teams, upskilling internal engineers, and designing so organisations do not become dependent on us.

These are the same qualities we look for when we choose who to work with.

See how this plays out in practice

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