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WatchTower for Core-Banking and Payment Infrastructure Providers

What core-banking platforms and payment infrastructure providers typically need from WatchTower when routing risk decisions for the institutions they serve, and where to find the details for each.

Pre-posting decisions

Get an immediate allow, pause, or cancel signal before a transaction settles on your ledger.

Organization-isolated routing

Route each institution you serve into its own separate WatchTower organization.

Reliable follow-up

Receive a signed callback with the final release or cancel outcome once a paused transaction is resolved.

What matters most to an infrastructure provider

If you operate a core-banking platform or shared payment infrastructure, you are usually integrating WatchTower on behalf of the institutions you serve, not for a single organization. That changes what you need most: a synchronous decision your own transaction pipeline can act on before posting, a reliable way to route each institution to its own isolated WatchTower organization, and a dependable follow-up when a paused transaction is later resolved by a human.

What you will typically care about first

  • requesting an immediate decision before a transaction posts, so you can allow, pause, or cancel it inline
  • routing each institution you serve into its own separate WatchTower organization
  • a reliable callback once a paused transaction is resolved, so you are not left polling for status
  • idempotent retries, since real-time systems retry when a network is slow or a response is unclear
  • a clear timeout and reconciliation plan for when no response arrives in time

Where to start

  1. Read Inline Decisioning for the full request and response flow, including retries, idempotency, and timeout planning.
  2. Read Decisions and Risk Outcomes, specifically "Held transactions and the review outcome," for how a paused transaction is released or cancelled after analyst review.
  3. Read Organizations to understand how organization isolation works across the institutions you route.
  4. Read Retry and Idempotency for how WatchTower treats duplicate requests safely.
  5. Read Latency and Reliability for what to expect from response times and how to plan around them.

The pause and release pattern

When your platform can hold a transaction before it posts, WatchTower can return a decision that tells you to pause it. That pause is not the end of the story. Once an analyst investigates and records a final outcome, either release or cancel, WatchTower sends that outcome back to you as a signed callback, so your pipeline can act on it automatically instead of waiting for someone to check back manually.

Plan for the callback, not just the first response

The initial inline response only tells you a transaction is paused. Build your integration around receiving and acting on the follow-up callback as a first-class part of the flow.