Fintech & Digital Assets
Digital asset custody: hot, warm and cold, and the controls between them
Losses at exchanges and custodians rarely come from broken cryptography. They come from weak controls around keys, approvals and withdrawals.
Data Centre & Financial Infrastructure
The hosting, compute, key-management and recovery layer that payment, banking and digital-asset platforms run on.
Overview
Financial regulators increasingly expect customer data and critical systems to stay in the country, with a tested recovery site and hardware-protected keys. We design that foundation: racks in Tier III facilities or sovereign cloud regions, payment HSMs and key ceremonies, network segmentation and an active-active or warm-standby recovery plan.
The same team runs compute for workloads that ordinary hosting does not handle well, such as GPU clusters for AI models, risk calculations and blockchain validators. Power, cooling and connectivity are planned with our technology practice, and everything is monitored around the clock.
What the service covers
| Service | What it covers | Typical components |
|---|---|---|
| In-country hosting | Data-centre and sovereign-cloud hosting that keeps financial data inside Oman where regulation requires it. | Data residency, Sovereign cloud, Colocation |
| High-performance and GPU compute | Compute clusters for AI models, risk calculation and blockchain workloads. | GPU clusters, HPC, AI training |
| Blockchain nodes and validators | Managed nodes, validators and digital-asset mining infrastructure with power and cooling engineering. | Nodes, Validators, Mining infrastructure |
| HSM and key management | Hardware security modules, payment HSMs and key ceremonies for cards, wallets and signing. | Payment HSM, Key ceremonies, PKI |
| Resilience and disaster recovery | Active-active architectures, backup sites and tested recovery for critical financial systems. | Active-active, DR sites, RTO / RPO |
How we deliver
Discovery and regulation
We map the product, the users, the licences required and the partners who hold them.
Architecture
A modular, API-first design that adds rails, currencies and assets without a rebuild.
Build and integrate
Platform engineering and connections to banks, schemes, exchanges, custodians and blockchains.
Secure and certify
Penetration testing, PCI and ISO controls, and audit evidence before launch.
Operate and grow
Monitoring, reconciliation, support and continuous improvement under service levels.
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