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Redpanda for Financial Services

Financial services run on data that can't wait. Legacy systems weren't built for the latency, throughput, and compliance demands of today's markets—or the agentic AI applications reshaping them. Redpanda is.

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Why Redpanda Streaming?

Redpanda Streaming lets you ingest, process, analyze, and act on tens of thousands of data points in real time. 10x faster and 6x more cost-effective than Apache Kafka®, it's the infrastructure that leading financial institutions use to run high-throughput, low-latency workloads without the operational overhead.

Use cases for Finance

Connect data from any source and handle any real-time streaming workload.

Digital banking

Scaling mobile applications and web-based banking services for hundreds of millions of customers.

Market data feeds

Same-day data streams to detect asset and market shifts with real-time analytics, such as for risk analysis.

Payments

Use data streaming for real-time fraud detection and prevention and observe API gateway performance.

Core modernization

Provide centralized data streaming services for core banking services, such as financial messaging or transaction histories.

Trading

Power transactional systems with real-time data streams to scale order execution and automate trading strategies.

Blockchain

Monitor on-chain activities with real-time analytics to identify trading patterns and anomalies.

What our customers say

"Redpanda is the only Kafka-compatible data streaming platform that can cost-effectively and reliably manage the massive scale of the NYSE. When milliseconds matter, Redpanda delivers."

Vinil Bhandari
Head of Cloud & Full Stack Engineering
NYSE
Finance

“Redpanda just works. We didn’t need to change our code, and suddenly, our day two operations were dead simple.”

Shahir Daya
Chief Technology Officer
Zafin
Finance

“The latency and the throughput we got with almost no configuration was incredible. Redpanda is fast, reliable, friction-free, and has very low operational overhead.”

Raja Bhatia
VP Engineering
Alpaca
Finance

“We needed assurance we’d have zero data loss. We also needed something that would meet our high throughput requirements. That put Redpanda in a class of its own.”

Alex Davies
CTO
Jump Trading

“For a crypto and derivatives exchange like us, it’s the difference of billions of dollars of daily trading volume… Any other firm in the financial services industry would be better off replacing Kafka with Redpanda.”

Khairil Akbar
NOC Infrastructure Engineer
Bitwyre
Finance

“Redpanda was able to handle the same load on far fewer resources than Kafka required. It was 5 to 6 times more efficient, greatly reducing our hardware costs as well as support and licensing costs.”

Michael Pearce
Sr. Architect
StoneX
Finance

Deploying AI agents?

The Redpanda Agentic Data Plane gives financial services firms the connectivity, context, and governance to deploy AI agents across high-stakes workflows—from trade surveillance and fraud detection to regulatory reporting. Every agent action is traceable, and every data stream is controlled.

Learn more about the Agentic Data Plane ➜