Consultancy, engineering and HR services for payment systems.

We work with banks, fintechs and payment companies on EFT-POS, SoftPOS and acquiring — and on AI, trading and custody platforms. The team that designs the architecture also owns the integration, the certification and the system in production.

15+ years in payment systems
1M+ POS terminals run on platforms our engineers built
35+ banks & institutions delivered for
30+ processors & schemes integrated

Services

01

Technical Consultancy

Senior payments architecture and domain expertise, on demand — from design workshops and processor selection to certification plans and production sign-off.

EFT-POS · SoftPOS · acquiring · EMV L2/L3 · PCI DSS · PCI MPoC · HSM & key management · ISO 8583 · nexo · ISO 20022 · open banking

02

Software Engineering

Compact senior teams that design, build and operate production financial systems — and stay accountable for them after go-live.

payment gateways · acquiring hosts · POS applications · custody & trading back ends · GenAI / RAG

03

HR & Team Augmentation

Payments-specific recruitment and nearshore senior teams, technically vetted by engineers who have built these systems themselves.

fintech recruitment · nearshore teams · EU time zones · long-term augmentation

How we engage

Advisory

Architecture reviews, certification planning and technical due diligence — booked by the day, no long-term commitment.

Fixed-Scope Delivery

A defined integration, certification or product milestone delivered end to end, with a clear owner and acceptance criteria.

Embedded Team

Senior engineers working inside your organisation for the long haul — same tools, same standups, same accountability.

Focus

Built around the point of sale.

Our core craft is the terminal and everything behind it: POS applications, SoftPOS and Tap-to-Pay products, EMV kernel integrations, PIN on Glass, terminal management, L3 certification and processor onboarding — delivered for acquirers and SoftPOS vendors across Europe and the US.

Payments & Acquiring
Acquiring hosts, gateways, virtual POS, alternative payment methods, clearing and settlement.
AI & Data
GenAI products, RAG pipelines, governed natural-language analytics, local and on-prem inference.
Trading & Custody
Brokerage back ends, custody and security-deposit management, corporate actions, market data, EOD.
Banking Platforms
Core banking integrations, e-money platforms, middleware, ERP/CRM, business intelligence.
Security, HSM & Key Management
Payment HSMs (Thales payShield, Utimaco Atalla): PIN translation & verification, MAC, key ceremonies, remote key loading (RKL/RKI) under TR-31 / TR-34, DUKPT, tokenization — plus PCI DSS, P2PE, PIN and MPoC programmes.
Mobile & Portals
Flutter applications, merchant and back-office portals, admin tooling.

Standards we work against: ISO 8583 / nexo / EMV L1·L2·L3 / EMV 3-D Secure / PCI DSS / PCI P2PE / PCI PIN / PCI MPoC / PCI SSF / TR-31 · TR-34 / DUKPT / TR QR / ISO 20022 / SWIFT ISO 15022 / FIX 4.x·5.x / FIX API / MCP / ISO/IEC 42001 (AI)

Selected work

SoftPOS · Certification

Long-running engineering partnership with Softpay (Denmark): processor integrations, EMV kernel work and scheme certifications for SoftPOS across European and US markets.

National Infrastructure

Host protocol and remote key loading design consultancy for BKM — Türkiye’s interbank card centre — within the national TechPOS programme.

Capital Markets

Custody and trading back ends for European brokers: order management, corporate actions, market data feeds, security deposits and end-of-day processing.

Applied AI

Kolayz: a natural-language analytics platform generating governed SQL across 15+ database dialects — designed, built and running in production.

Integration experience

Processors, acquirers and schemes we’ve integrated.

Integrated or certified against under client engagements in recent years.

worldpay worldline fiserv. J.P. Morgan Payments AMERICANEXPRESSAmerican Express citibank elavon nexi moneris shift4 redsys checkout.com rapyd VakıfBank mollie PostFinance Swedbank SEB SIA BKM TechPOS paynt silverflow myPOS
VISA Mastercard AMERICANEXPRESS DISCVER Diners Club JCB UnionPay Interac Bancontact girocard Dankort BankAxept troy.

Marks shown are stylized references; all product names and trademarks belong to their owners.

Institutions our team has delivered for

Türkiye

Akbank · Anadolubank · Citibank · Denizbank · Fibabanka · HSBC · ICBC Turkey · ING · İş Bankası · Kuveyt Türk · QNB Finansbank · Şekerbank · TEB · Halkbank · VakıfBank · Vakıf Katılım · Ziraat Bankası · BKM · Token Finansal Teknolojiler

International

Adyen (NL) · Mollie (NL) · Silverflow (NL) · Unzer (DE) · KT Bank (DE) · JFD Bank (DE) · JFD Brokers (CY) · Softpay (DK) · Nets (DK) · Nexi (IT) · SIA (IT) · Worldline (FR) · Redsys (ES) · PostFinance (CH) · Rapyd (UK) · Checkout.com (UK) · Worldpay (UK) · Elavon (US) · Fiserv (US) · J.P. Morgan Payments (US) · American Express (US) · Shift4 (US) · Moneris (CA) · Swedbank (SE) · SEB (SE) · Valitor (IS) · Dintero (NO) · Nomupay (IE) · Paynt (LT) · myPOS (BG) · Polish e-Payments (PL) · Credit Europe (RU/RO) · Halkbank AD (MK) · Ziraat Bosnia (BA) · Koop Merkez Bankası (KKTC) · StarCard (KKTC)

About the practice

Deliberately small. Every engagement is led by engineers who have designed, certified and operated payment systems in production.

The team behind PPK has built EFT-POS platforms serving around a million terminals, SoftPOS products used across Europe, acquiring hosts processing millions of daily transactions, custody and trading platforms for European brokers — and AI products running in production today.

Contact

Tell us what you’re building.

hello@ppkconsultancy.com

phone0850 307 25 79

addressPPK Yazılım ve Danışmanlık Hizmetleri
Yelki Mah. Namık Elal Cad. No: 50/L, Begonvilla Sitesi 12
35310 Güzelbahçe / İzmir, Türkiye