M&A technology integrationTop-25 U.S. bank
Merger-scale commercial & enterprise technology, converted
Merger-of-equals technology architecture, planning, delivery and conversion of all commercial technology.
Delivery-first transformation & modernization
Banks typically run complex modernization programs every few years. We execute them every quarter.
We plan, design, build, and deliver the implementations banks stake their roadmaps on in commercial treasury, digital banking, core and platform modernization, payments, M&A technology integration, and financial crimes.
Who we work with
Banks & Credit Unions.Technology Vendors.Partners.
Banks & credit unions partner with us to deliver complex transformation initiatives. Technology vendors partner with us to integrate their clients. Consulting firms partner with us to execute where their model stops. The Ignite team shows up for all three.
Banks & Credit Unions
The program you can't afford to get wrong.
Senior practitioners who have delivered and run your platforms, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with your team, and are accountable to the finish.
Bring your roadmapTechnology Vendors
Your platform, succeeding at the bank.
Ecosystem-additive, never competitive with your services. We de-risk the implementation, accelerate go-live, and enable adoption.
Partner with usConsulting Partners
You keep your lane. We take execution.
You own selection and negotiation, plus whatever part of strategy, compliance, audit, training and rollout you choose to keep. We turn your recommendation into a program that ships, with referrals that run both ways.
Let's connectWho shows up
Practitioners, not a pyramid.
The team we deploy on your program has run these platforms inside a bank, and/or built or integrated them alongside the vendor before. You're not paying us to get up to speed.
Small teams, accountable to deliver.
Small, high-horsepower teams with no incentive to inflate scope. Incentivized to finish, not to bill. On time and on budget is the model, not a promise.
Experienced leaders & engineers, not just advisors.
We build and integrate the software no vendor sells. There is no one-size-fits-all answer, so we map your ecosystem, then pursue a custom solution in alignment with your institution's business, product and technology roadmaps.
Ignite Banking in three figures
- 2011Banks, credit unions and fintechs exclusively, since day one.
- 80+Vendor platforms integrated. Tied to none of them.
- 10+Large regional banks running software we built from scratch.
- NACHA
- Federal Reserve
- The Clearing House
- Visa
- ACI Worldwide
- Deluxe
- TSYS
- Transactis
- Q2
- Bottomline Technologies
- CSI/Apiture
- Candescent
- Backbase
- Narmi
- Alkami
- Savana
- Dragonfly
- NinthWave
- Antuar
- Fiserv
- Finxact (Fiserv)
- FIS
- Jack Henry
- Hogan Financial Systems
- Finastra
- nCino
- Nasdaq Verafin
- NICE Actimize
- Early Warning Services
- Featurespace
- Alloy
- SAS
- LexisNexis
- Wolters Kluwer
- Thomson Reuters
- Financial Data Exchange
- MX
- Plaid
- Yodlee
- Azure
- AWS
- Google Cloud Platform
- Oracle
- SAP
- Microsoft
- IBM
- Okta
- PingFederate
- Salesforce
- ServiceNow
- Apigee/MuleSoft
- Twilio
- Splunk
- Integrate.io
- Informatica
- Snowflake
- Databricks
- Axway
- Dynatrace
- Lob
- Infosys
- DXC Technology
- Micro Focus
From our clients
In our clients' words.
"I proudly endorse the Ignite team, and as I see opportunities to do more in my space you are at the top of talented partners that flat out deliver."
Executive Vice President & Chief Information OfficerSuper-regional bank
"What distinguishes Ignite from other consulting groups is their ownership. They take responsibility for the outcome, work through obstacles, and relentlessly pursue our goals."
President & CEOSmall community bank
"You guys have been the best. Very reliable, top skills and delivered as promised and most importantly the best attitude."
Senior Vice President & Deputy CIO, Client PlatformsRegional bank
Where complex initiatives go wrong
The execution risk is never where the plan says it is.
A core conversion, a merger integration, a digital build or a financial crimes re-platform: every complex initiative runs through the same eight stages, and each one slips somewhere. Select a stage to see where, and what we own.
Where it slips
The target state is drawn from the vendor's diagram, not from the systems you already run, and the gaps surface in the build.
What we own
Enterprise architecture: the current and target state, the integration landscape and the systems that stay, settled before anything is built.
01Architecture
Where it slips
The target state is drawn from the vendor's diagram, not from the systems you already run, and the gaps surface in the build.
What we own
Enterprise architecture: the current and target state, the integration landscape and the systems that stay, settled before anything is built.
02Strategy
Where it slips
The change is treated as one big bang, with no sequence, no waves and no way out if a wave fails.
What we own
Delivery strategy: what changes, in what order, and how each wave proves itself before the next.
03Data
Where it slips
Data quality and hygiene treated as a minor detail, then found to be critical to the success of the program.
What we own
Enterprise data strategy, ETL and transformation logic, enrichment, validation and remediation: documented, analyzed, reviewed, and every change tracked.
04Build
Where it slips
An integration build that learns what the existing systems actually do in the last month before go-live.
What we own
Integration build and testing alongside your engineers, with your systems' reality in the room from day one.
05Convert
Where it slips
Migration waves run without a reconcilement plan, so nobody can say what moved and what did not.
What we own
Conversion and migration: data transformation and load, wave by wave.
06Reconcile
Where it slips
Validation left to the vendor's record counts, and the first real reconciliation happens on the Monday after go-live.
What we own
Reconcile and validate: every wave proven complete and correct against the source before it counts as done.
07Cut over
Where it slips
A cutover weekend nobody rehearsed, with a rollback decision that has never been made in daylight.
What we own
Cutover planning and go-live, with the rollback gate agreed before the weekend.
08Stabilize
Where it slips
Go-live declared, adoption never measured, and the business quietly working around the new system.
What we own
Stabilization: adoption measured, defects burned down, and the operating model that makes the investment pay.
Our work
Programs like yours, finished.
Commercial treasuryTop-25 U.S. bank
A treasury platform, integrated and delivered to production pilot in months
Most of the bank's API stack built along the way, still in use today, and the enterprise transaction data warehouse that the bank runs on.
Digital bankingDigital bank
A digital bank, stood up
Digital banking, surrounds, online account opening, servicing, call center and bank operations platforms, implemented for a virtual digital bank.
Core & platform modernizationCommunity bank
Core modernization, end-to-end
A cloud-native core and a new digital banking platform: integration, delivery and go-live.
Financial crimesNational bank
Financial crimes: fraud, AML, investigations & reporting, re-platformed
The entire in-house stack replaced: AML, KYC, transaction monitoring, fraud, investigations, case management and SAR reporting.
PaymentsTop-25 U.S. bank
Payment automation, now in the product
Bulk payments across multiple file formats, built with a platform vendor's product and architecture teams. The vendor adopted our code into its core product, and it now runs at 10+ banks.
Also Open finance, API banking, real-time payments, tokenized deposits, enterprise entitlements, wealth management platforms, multi-cloud, retail/SMB digital banking, performance & security engineering...and many, many more
Not your traditional boutique consultancy
Consultancies are built to sell hours.We're built to finish.
More meetings, thicker decks, more workstreams, more bodies. Confusion is good for that business, because confusion sells the next workstream. Our PowerPoints aren't as pretty. We are there to move the ball down the field and deliver the result, not to sell you more people.
| What you are used to | What you get from us |
|---|---|
| A weekly steering deck | Clear frequent communication - honest & transparent |
| A pyramid of juniors learning on your program | Senior practitioners who have run it before |
| Scope that grows with the confusion | Scope written down, held, and finished |
| An incentive to add bodies | An incentive to go live |
| A never-ending series of meetings | Real progress, measurable results, delivered |
Questions
Five questions every CIO asks us.
"You're a boutique - can you handle a program our size?"
We deploy small, high-horsepower teams, and those teams have delivered some of the largest digital programs in the industry. We stand shoulder-to-shoulder with your teams on the highest-risk workstreams and bring in trusted downstream capacity when it benefits you - without diluting the senior expertise you're paying for.
"Why not just use our Big 4 or SI/Offshore partner?"
Often you should - in areas such as governance, audit, legal, compliance, marketing. But when it comes to owning the technical execution, integration, conversion, and go-live, you want people who've personally done it. We frequently work alongside those firms, and take the execution details they hand off.
"Offshore staff-aug is cheaper per hour."
Per hour, yes. Per outcome, rework and slipped go-lives are what actually cost you. You're buying senior judgment and a team incentivized to finish, not a rate card.
"How do I know you'll actually deliver?"
Referenceable clients, repeat engagements, and on-time/on-budget commitments built into our model. We'll connect you with executives who've been through it with us.
"Consultants always try to expand scope."
Our associates win when you win. We have no incentive to manufacture complexity. We identify risk early and respectfully challenge scope - usually to protect your timeline, not pad ours.
Spend 30 minutes with us
Bring your roadmap.Leave with a first read. Partner with us.Your platform, succeeding at the bank. You keep your lane. We take execution.
The most useful thing we can do isn't in a deck. Let's talk through your roadmap for the next 6-12 months, and we'll give you a frank, experience-based read.
No pitch, no obligation. And if we're not the right team for it, we'll tell you that too.
A practitioner, not a scheduler, replies within one business day.
What you leave with
- Insights on the platforms you're considering
- A candid first read on your highest-stakes initiative
- Executive references on similar programs