CASE STUDY
NatWest Rooster Money -
Digital payments for families
How Bermola Consulting provided senior engineering leadership to enhance NatWest Rooster Money, a leading financial education platform for families. Our engagement focused on delivering critical and secure new functionality by integrating modern native components into a mature cross-platform application, enabling seamless payments, robust parental controls, and engaging educational features that support financial literacy for young users.
Overview
NatWest Rooster Money is a financial education mobile app designed to help children and families manage money in a safe, structured way. The application offers a suite of tools, including seamless payments, robust parental controls, and engaging educational features, all designed to support the financial literacy of young users.
The challenge
Engineering a trusted financial tool for families
The project required balancing the delivery of a secure, compliant financial product with an engaging and educational user experience for a young audience.
- Secure & compliant payments
- Delivering a secure digital payments solution tailored for children while adhering to strict financial compliance standards.
- Complex technical integration
- Integrating modern native components into a mature, cross-platform application (Apache Cordova) without disrupting existing functionality.
- Scalable & reliable architecture
- Engineering a backend and infrastructure capable of supporting thousands of families simultaneously with high availability.
- Engaging financial education
- Designing educational features that effectively combined gamification with the core principles of financial responsibility.
Our approach
End-to-end engineering from concept to delivery
Bermola Consulting led engineering delivery, covering both technical and product aspects to deliver a robust and engaging platform.
Modern application enhancement
We enhanced the existing mobile app by integrating modern native components to support new, secure payment and savings features.
Full-stack security & reliability
Our team implemented backend, frontend, and infrastructure components with a focus on robust security and high reliability.
Seamless & intuitive user experience
We delivered a child-friendly interface that integrated seamless parental oversight, ensuring ease of use for the whole family.
Agile delivery & best practices
Applying Agile methodologies and CI/CD pipelines, we ensured efficient and safe releases while fostering continuous improvement.
The impact
A trusted platform for the next generation
Our engineering leadership was pivotal in delivering a secure, reliable, and highly engaging platform that strengthened NatWest’s position in the family finance market — including a 450% surge post-acquisition.
Market-leading application
Delivered a stable, highly-functional app that is now a cornerstone of NatWest’s family-oriented digital strategy.
Enhanced customer engagement
Created a suite of educational and financial tools that fostered long-term engagement and trust with families.
Secure & compliant platform
Engineered a robust, secure platform that meets the rigorous standards of the financial services sector.
Foundation for social impact
Empowered parents with practical digital tools to improve financial literacy for the next generation.
Technology highlights
Mobile application & frontend
Backend & services
Practices
Business value
By successfully integrating secure digital payments with engaging financial education, this project delivered more than just a feature-rich application; it created a platform for significant social impact. The work strengthened family trust in the NatWest brand and delivered a key differentiator in the competitive financial services market, showcasing a powerful new model for customer engagement.
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