Case studies
The record behind the advice.
Four of these six describe what our partners built as operators before founding the firm: the bank they founded and ran, the payments company they built, the national infrastructure they helped design. The institutions named were their employers, not clients of Leap Associates, and each case study says so. The remaining two describe firm capability and name no client.
01 Partner track record
Institutions our partners founded, ran or built.
- 01
Building a Digital Retail Bank in Pakistan
Taking a digital retail bank applicant through the State Bank of Pakistan licensing gates: governance architecture, the ten year financial case, cloud and outsourcing risk, and pilot readiness.
- 02
Building a Payments Company for Pakistan's SME Economy
A multi-rail SME payments and invoicing platform: open APIs, bank partnerships, cash collection, and the transaction data that makes working capital lending possible.
- 03
From Microfinance Bank to National Mobile Money Platform
How a microfinance bank became the licensed core of Pakistan's largest branchless banking platform, and why the bank and telecom model works when the regulatory perimeter is drawn correctly.
- 04
Building National Payment Infrastructure
Building the switching, instant payment and settlement layer beneath a national market, including RAAST instant payments, cross-border payments and real time gross settlement migration.
02 Firm capability
How we approach the technology problems.
- 05
Cloud Architecture and Governance for a Regulated Bank
Designing an offshore cloud workload that a bank's technology steering committee and its regulator will both approve: materiality, the data boundary, key control, resilience and exit.
- 06
Bringing Agentic AI into Regulated Institutions
Agentic architecture, enterprise ontology, model governance and explainability, delivered through forward deployed engineers embedded with client teams across the GCC and Pakistan.