Financial & Professional

Payments for regulated businesses

Banks, insurers, and law firms already live with tight regulation. Paytia takes PCI DSS off the pile — no scope, no exposed call recordings, no card data sitting in a regulated system where it shouldn't be.

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Secure payments for claims handlers and loss adjusters

Claims teams take card details on calls at the worst possible moment for the customer. Paytia Claims Management keeps card data out of the recording, the claims system, and the adjuster's notes — while your team carries on handling the case.

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PCI is the audit nobody plans for

If you run a bank, an insurance firm, or a law practice, you already live with regulation. FCA Consumer Duty. SRA client money rules. AML. GDPR. PI insurance. Your systems are built around audit trails, record-keeping, and evidence you'll need to show someone in a year's time.

PCI DSS is the one that catches people out. The first time an agent reads a card number during a fee payment call, your telephony, your call recordings, and your case management system are all in scope. Suddenly you're answering 329 SAQ D questions and paying for quarterly pen tests on a contact estate you never saw as a payment environment.

And because your sector sits under the microscope, a card data breach isn't a quiet IT incident. It's a reputational hit, an FCA notification, a letter to every affected customer, and a conversation with your PI broker. The prevention cost dwarfs the remediation cost.

How Paytia fits a regulated firm

Paytia sits between your phone system and your payment gateway. When a client needs to pay a premium, a fee, or a disbursement, they tap their card on their own keypad while your agent stays on the call. The keypad tones are masked in real time, so nothing identifiable reaches the agent, the recording, or your case management system. The card data goes straight to the gateway you're already using.

The money still moves through your merchant account — client trust, premium, operating, whichever fits your operating model. We don't touch the funds. We just take the scope out of the card capture moment. For law firms, that means client account rules stay intact. For insurers, premium collection and claims excess capture look exactly the same to the customer. For banks, the regulated flow is untouched.

Most regulated firms are live within days. The PCI audit drops from SAQ D to SAQ A, and your call recordings stay clean for Consumer Duty, SRA file reviews, or any other evidence trail your regulator wants.

Who we work with

Different regulators, same underlying problem. Here's how Paytia fits each side of financial and professional services.

329 → 22

PCI requirements (SAQ D → SAQ A)

SAQ A

Down from SAQ D

Zero

Card data in your systems

Clean

Call recordings, every time

Common questions

How does this work with client money and trust accounts?

The card payment goes directly to your existing merchant account — the same one you use today. We don't touch the funds, we just take the scope out of the card capture step. Whether that's a solicitor's client account, an insurer's premium trust, or a bank's operating account, the money flow stays exactly as it is.

We already deal with FCA, SRA, or GDPR audits. Is PCI really that big a deal?

It's the one nobody plans for. FCA, SRA, and GDPR are built into your business processes. PCI DSS sneaks up on you the first time an agent reads a card number out loud in a regulated call. Suddenly your telephony, your call recording, and your CRM are in scope, and you're answering 329 SAQ D questions you weren't expecting.

Can we still record calls for compliance purposes?

Yes. Call recording stays exactly as it is, because the keypad tones are masked before they hit the line. Your compliance team can keep every call — for FCA Consumer Duty, SRA file reviews, or dispute evidence — without any risk of a card number leaking into archive.

Does Paytia work with solicitor case management and insurance claims systems?

Yes. We plug into your existing gateway, so whatever system triggers the payment — a legal case management tool, an insurance claims platform, or a banking CRM — keeps working the way it does today. There's nothing custom to build, and no data passed between systems that shouldn't be.

What's the impact on our professional indemnity insurance?

Most firms see it as a positive. Card data breaches are a growing line item in PI claims, especially for law firms handling fee payments. Removing card data from your environment removes a category of exposure entirely. We've had brokers ask for a letter confirming the Paytia architecture for underwriting purposes — we're happy to provide one.

Ready to take PCI off the regulatory pile?

See Paytia on a call flow that looks like yours. Most regulated firms are live within a week.

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