Elastic Is Building the Search Layer for Finance

A well-designed developer platform is often dismissed as internal plumbing. But when it comes to the payments industry, where milliseconds matter, it may just be the foundation of a global-scale transaction engine.  Elastic, the company behind the popular Elasticsearch platform, is working on powering the essential infrastructure for financial services organisations, modernising their developer experience and data systems. At the heart of this transformation is the intersection of intelligent search and grounded AI. While GenAI grabs headlines for its linguistic flair, financial companies are instead obsessed with accuracy, traceability, and compliance.  According to Karthik Rajaram, area VP & GM at Elastic India, that’s precisely where Elastic is stepping in, with