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Fintech, FX & Payments

Fintech, FX & Payments

Your Customers Are Telling You What They Want. Can Your Systems Hear Them?

Your Customers Are Telling You What They Want. Can Your Systems Hear Them?

Marketing operations, CRM architecture, and automation for fintech, FX, and payment companies.

Marketing operations, CRM architecture, and automation for fintech, FX, and payment companies.

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You’re Sitting on More Revenue Than You Think

Transaction-heavy financial services companies generate enormous amounts of data — customer behavior, purchase patterns, rate activity, engagement signals. Most of it goes unused.

Not because the data doesn’t exist. Because the systems aren’t built to surface it — or leverage it.

The result:

High-intent visitors leave without converting.

Existing customers go quiet without anyone noticing.

Review invitations go to unhappy customers with no screening.

Follow-ups depend on someone remembering to send them

Attribution means downloading five platforms into Excel.

The firms that fix this don’t just operate more efficiently — they find revenue they didn’t know they were leaving behind.

Infrastructure → Intelligence → Revenue

Most agencies stop at implementation. We start there — then keep going.
01.

Build the Foundation

CRM architecture, data structure, integrations, and automation — designed for how financial services actually operate. Clean data. Connected systems. A single source of truth your team actually trusts. Security and compliance baked in at every turn.

02.

Surface the Intelligence

03.

Turn It Into Revenue

01.

Build the Foundation

CRM architecture, data structure, integrations, and automation — designed for how financial services actually operate. Clean data. Connected systems. A single source of truth your team actually trusts. Security and compliance baked in at every turn.

02.

Surface the Intelligence

03.

Turn It Into Revenue

01.

Build the Foundation

CRM architecture, data structure, integrations, and automation — designed for how financial services actually operate. Clean data. Connected systems. A single source of truth your team actually trusts. Security and compliance baked in at every turn.

02.

Surface the Intelligence

03.

Turn It Into Revenue

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What This Looks Like In Action

CXI is a leading provider of foreign exchange services and international payments in North America. When we started working together, they were processing millions in transactions — but their marketing infrastructure hadn’t kept pace. Data lived in silos. Attribution was manual. There was no automation.

We didn’t just implement a platform. We built a system that keeps getting smarter.

FX Rate Tracker

Custom lead generation tool

Thousands of visitors were checking CXI’s exchange rates daily — then leaving. High intent, zero capture. We built the Rate Tracker: users set their target rate, choose notification preferences, and CXI stays top-of-mind until they’re ready to buy.

2,273

Total Users

1,095

New Contacts

48%

Net New Rate

13.79% total conversion from Rate Tracker signup to completed transaction. Full-funnel attribution from first touch to revenue.

View Rate Tracker case study

View Rate Tracker case study

View Rate Tracker case study

Online Review Management

Reputation protection system

CXI was sending every customer a review invitation after each transaction and did no have the infrastructure to screen sentiment and route reviews accordingly. Happy and unhappy customers pointed to the same public platforms.

Before: No screening, no routing

Happy

Customer

Unhappy

Customer

Thank you email

Identically for both

Review Invitation

Same public link

Public Reviews

Unfiltered

Both paths are identical. The system can't tell the difference. Negative reviews reach public platforms with no intervention.

Both paths are identical. The system can't tell the difference. Negative reviews reach public platforms with no intervention.

Both paths are identical. The system can't tell the difference. Negative reviews reach public platforms with no intervention.

We built a HubSpot-native review management system that screens sentiment before it reaches a public platform. Positive experiences get a follow-up with a direct link to that branch’s review page. Negative experiences trigger an immediate internal alert so the team can intervene — before it goes public.

After

Customer

transaction

Sentiment screening email

How was it

Internal alert

Team intervenes

Follow-up email

Branch review link

Negative

Positive

Issue

resolved

Public

review

3

Hubspot Objects

5

Workflows

29

Custom Properties

No third-party software.

View Review Management case study

View Review Management case study

View Review Management case study

Cart Abandonment Recovery

OnlineFX purchase recovery

When customers start an online currency purchase but don’t complete it, automated follow-ups re-engage them — recovering transactions that would otherwise be lost.

Transaction Initiated

Recovered Revenue

Abandoment Signal

Automated Re-Engagement

System Wats

+

+

Automated Re-Engagement

System Wats

Automated Re-Engagement

Every abandoned transaction is a conversation waiting to be finished. We built the system that finishes them.

View Review Management case study

View Review Management case study

View Review Management case study

The Result

OnlineFX purchase recovery

What started as a platform implementation became an ongoing partnership that keeps finding revenue.

"CXI now has a 360° view of each customer, automated marketing attribution, custom tools generating leads and protecting their reputation, and a foundation that makes every new initiative faster to build and easier to measure."

View Review Management case study

View Review Management case study

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Marketing & Sales Operations for Fintech, FX & Payments

We build the infrastructure that connects your marketing to revenue — then build the tools that act on what the data reveals.

CRM Architecture & Implementation

CRM Architecture & Implementation

Marketing Automation

Marketing Automation

Reporting, Attribution & Analytics

Reporting, Attribution & Analytics

Integrations & Custom Tools

Integrations & Custom Tools

See all Marketing & Sales Operations services

See all Marketing & Sales Operations services

See all Marketing & Sales Operations services

You Don’t Need to Start With a Full Implementation

Some of our longest partnerships started with a single project. If you have a specific need, we can start there — and build from it.

Email Marketing Templates

Branded, responsive templates for your communications.

Landing Pages

Campaign and gated content pages built in HubSpot.

Workflow Creation

Automated sequences for follow-ups, nurturing, and data management.

Reporting Dashboards

HubSpot dashboards, GA reporting, attribution models.

Technical SEO

Site structure, schema markup, crawlability, GSC and GTM setup.

AI Agent Development

Marketing and prospecting agents that work your data continuously.

CXI started with a website. It became a four-year operations partnership.

Why Paula for Fintech, FX & Payments

We Understand the Industry

We Build, Not Just Configure

Senior Expertise at Every Turn

Built for Regulated Industries

Committed to the Result, Not the Clock

Our founder spent a decade in financial services — including building the complete marketing and operational infrastructure for a financial research business. We’ve worked with CXI for four years and Exchange Bank of Canada. We know compliance constraints, trust dynamics, and what it takes to operate at scale.

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Let’s Talk About What Your Systems Should Be Doing for You

Whether you need a full operations overhaul or a single project to start — we’ll give you an honest assessment of where the opportunity is.

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FAQ

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Why financial services specifically?

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Do you help with digital transformation strategy?

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