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Fintech System Design Case Studies

5 Fintech case studies from Capital One with full breakdowns.

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Companies

Capital One5Bloomberg3Goldman Sachs2JPMorgan2Rippling2Uber2Amazon1Databricks1OpenAI1Salesforce1Visa1

Topics

Distributed Systems 90Real-time 51Storage 43Data Pipelines 42API Design 41Databases 38Caching 37Security 32AI / ML 23Algorithms 20Scheduling 20Search 19Event Driven 14Fintech 14Payments 11Geospatial 11Analytics 11Observability 11E-commerce 11Messaging 10CDN 9Concurrency 8Ads 8Frontend 8Booking System 6Networking 5IoT 4Media 3Media Streaming 3Collaboration 3Rate Limiting 2
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Highly Reliable Account Balance System (Wallet / Ledger)
5 min readFintechPaymentsDatabases
Intermediate▶ Mock
Credit Card Authorization, Limits and Reporting
4 min readFintechPaymentsReal-time
Advanced▶ Mock
Credit Card Customer Portal
5 min readFintechSecurityAPI Design
Beginner▶ Mock
Mobile Banking App Backend
3 min readFintechSecurityPayments
Intermediate▶ Mock
Virtual Credit Card Service (Capital One)
6 min readFintechPaymentsSecurity
Intermediate▶ Mock

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What is Fintech in system design?

Fintech is a core system design topic covered in 14 case studies on InterviewSkool. It appears frequently in FAANG interviews, especially at Google, Amazon, and Meta.

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