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Financial Services

Orchestrate Mission-Critical Financial Workflows

Durable workflows that run banks - payments, settlements, compliance and AI-driven automation.

Automatic failure recoveryComplete audit trailsEnterprise security

Financial Processes Are Long-Running and Distributed

Critical workflows span multiple systems and must run reliably for hours or days.

Trade settlement

Clearing systems, ledgers, risk systems

Loan approval

KYC, underwriting, credit scoring

Payment processing

Payment gateways, fraud systems

Regulatory reporting

Internal systems and regulators

Core Technology

Durable Execution for Financial Workflows

Dapr Workflows enable financial institutions to run complex, multi-step processes with guaranteed durability and recovery.

Durable Execution

Workflows automatically resume after crashes, restarts, or infrastructure failures.

Deterministic Replay

Every step is recorded and replayable, enabling debugging and auditability.

Stateful Orchestration

Coordinate complex multi-step processes across distributed systems.

Platform

Enterprise-Grade Workflow Operations

Access comprehensive platform capabilities designed for enterprise-scale financial systems.

Workflow orchestration

Run thousands of concurrent workflows

Secure invocation

mTLS between all services

Observability

Distributed tracing and metrics

Policy enforcement

Fine-grained access control

Architecture

Reference Architecture for Financial Platforms

Proven patterns for building resilient, scalable financial systems with Dapr Workflows.

Applications
Digital Banking Apps
Internal Banking Platforms
Operations & Compliance Tools
Dapr Workflows

Durable orchestration of long-running financial processes

Payment processingLoan approvalsTrade settlementCompliance pipelines
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Workflow Runtime
Identity & Security
Observability
Policy Enforcement
Service Invocation
Enterprise Systems
Core Banking Systems
Payment Rails
Risk Engines
Databases
Market Data Systems
External APIs

Catalyst provides the execution platform for durable financial workflows running across distributed banking systems.

Resilience

Multi-Region Failover

Enable active/active and passive/passive failover between regions and clouds, even during the most catastrophic outages

Users / TrafficUS-EASTAgent ClusterRunningWorkflows: 42State StoreReplicatedSyncedUS-WESTAgent ClusterStandbyWorkflows: 0State StoreReplicatedSyncedState Replication
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All Regions Healthy

Use Cases

Financial Workflow Automation

Transform critical financial operations with durable, auditable workflows that scale with your business.

Payment Processing

Coordinate payment gateways, fraud detection, and settlement systems with guaranteed delivery.

Loan Origination

Automate verification, scoring, underwriting, and approvals across multiple services.

Trade Reconciliation

Synchronize trades across multiple ledgers and clearinghouses reliably.

Regulatory Reporting

Automate data aggregation and compliance reporting with full audit trails.

AI Integration

Safely Integrate AI Into Financial Workflows

AI agents operate within workflow boundaries, ensuring full control and auditability.

Fraud investigation

AI-powered anomaly detection

Document analysis

Automated document processing

Compliance review

Intelligent policy checking

Customer service

Agentic workflow automation

AI Agent Boundaries

Controlled execution environment

Full execution tracing
Policy-enforced boundaries
Human-in-the-loop controls
Deterministic replay

Security

Built for Regulated Environments

Meet the strictest compliance requirements with audit trails, encryption, and enterprise-grade security controls.

Workload Identity

Cryptographic identity for every service with automatic mTLS

Policy-Based Access

Fine-grained access control for workflows and agents

Complete Audit Trail

Full execution history for compliance and debugging

Comparison

Reduce Operational Complexity

Diagrid simplifies financial workflow management compared to building and maintaining custom solutions.

Traditional
With Catalyst
Legacy job schedulers
Durable workflow orchestration
Manual recovery processes
Automatic failure recovery
Fragmented observability
Unified execution history
Custom retry logic
Built-in retry policies

Ready to Transform Your Financial Workflows?

Talk to our team about how Diagrid Catalyst can help you build and operate mission-critical financial workflows.