Technical Translation Services for FinTech Company
-
Business Consulting Public Relations Translation
-
Strategy Development Consulting Document Translation Legal Translation Localization Services Other PR Commercial Translation Technical Translation Website Translation
- $200,000 to $999,999
- Aug. 2022 - Ongoing
- Quality
- 5.0
- Schedule
- 5.0
- Cost
- 5.0
- Willing to Refer
- 5.0
"They adapt the entire experience to fit the cultural and legal reality of the target market."
- Financial services
- Varna, Bulgaria
- 501-1,000 Employees
- Online Review
- Verified
iZi Media Group provides PR and translation services for a fintech company. The team localizes the client's PCI DSS-compliant documentation and legal contracts and optimizes their KYC onboarding flows.
iZi Media Group has helped the client achieve 100% operational market readiness across their target territories. Their native-focused campaigns reduce support tickets by 5% and increase user acquisition efficiency by 4%-6%. The team is consistent, communicative, and highly adaptable.
BACKGROUND
Introduce your business and what you do there.
I’m the production and deliveries manager of iCard, a fintech company providing digital wallets, payment solutions, and financial services for individuals and businesses across Europe, aiming to make payments easier, more accessible, and secure.
OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE
What specific goals or objectives did you hire iZi Media Group to accomplish for your company?
As a major fintech institution operating under EEA regulations, our primary goal was a seamless and compliant regional expansion. We didn't just need a marketing agency; we needed a strategic partner capable of handling the high-stakes intersection of financial technology and legal compliance.Specifically, we hired iZi Media Group to ensure our digital wallet was 100% market-ready from a regulatory and UX standpoint. This involved the high-precision localization of PCI DSS-compliant documentation and complex legal contracts, as well as optimizing our KYC onboarding flows to remove any friction for new users. Additionally, we tasked them with building our brand authority through a comprehensive PR and business consulting roadmap, ensuring that as we entered new territories, iCard was immediately recognized as a trusted, native financial leader rather than a foreign entity.
SOLUTION
What was the scope of their involvement?
iZi Media Group handles an incredibly broad and sensitive scope that sits right at the intersection of our product delivery and legal departments. On the technical side, their main deliverable is the multilingual UX optimization of our digital wallet. They don't just translate text; they localize the entire customer journey and our complex KYC flows to ensure that users in different EEA markets can onboard without any technical or linguistic friction.On the strategic and regulatory side, they're responsible for the critical fintech translation of our PCI DSS-compliant documentation and legal contracts. This requires a level of precision that standard agencies simply can't provide. They also deliver a comprehensive PR and business consulting framework, which includes managing our media outreach and securing high-tier press placements to establish our brand authority as we scale. Essentially, they provide the full strategic roadmap and the localized assets we need to ensure our regional expansion is both compliant and commercially successful.iZi Media Group is the primary driver for the strategic and linguistic layer of our expansion, acting as the critical bridge between our internal technical teams and the new markets. They deliver the actual localized UX flows and PCI DSS-compliant documentation that our developers then integrate. They take full ownership of the trust factor — ensuring that every legal contract, KYC prompt, and interface element is technically accurate and culturally native.Furthermore, their responsibility extends to our entire customer-facing operation. iZi Media Group is directly responsible for our localized websites, promotional banners, and the entire lifecycle of our customer communications, including email marketing and push notifications. Perhaps most importantly for a fintech of our scale, we trust them with the localization and alignment of our terms of service and other critical legal frameworks. They ensure that every touchpoint — from a marketing banner to the fine print of a user agreement — is technically accurate, legally compliant, and culturally resonant.
What is the team composition?
We work with 25 teammates from iZi Media Group.
How did you come to work with iZi Media Group?
We found them through an online search. We chose them over other options because they had high ratings, were close to my geographic location, had a great culture fit, and their company values aligned with ours.
How much have you invested with them?
We've spent around $150,000–$300,000.
What is the status of this engagement?
We started working with them in August 2022, and our engagement is ongoing.
RESULTS & FEEDBACK
What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?
The most significant measurable outcome is achieving 100% operational market readiness across our target EEA territories. In the fintech sector, delays in legal or regulatory alignment can cost millions, and iZi Media Group ensures that all of our critical financial documentation and PCI DSS-compliant materials are localized and ready for launch ahead of schedule.From a user acquisition standpoint, the results are just as clear because the refined multilingual UX and KYC flows create a frictionless registration process, which is reflected in a significantly higher rate of completed sign-ups compared to our previous benchmarks. Our regional brand trust also sees a measurable lift through their strategic PR placements, securing consistent visibility in top-tier business and fintech media, which is vital for a digital wallet aiming to compete with traditional banks. Furthermore, we maintain total operational consistency and a unified brand voice across all touchpoints, ranging from push notifications and marketing banners to the high-stakes legal language in our terms of service. Over this four-year partnership, the primary metric of success has been our ability to scale rapidly into complex markets without ever compromising on compliance or UX.While we maintain strict confidentiality regarding our internal user data, I can confirm that the improvements to the KYC and onboarding flows result in a 5%–7% increase in successfully completed sign-ups within the first six months of implementation. In the fintech world, moving the needle by that much at our scale is a significant achievement because it represents thousands of users who previously might have abandoned the process during identity verification.Beyond the registration numbers, our user acquisition efficiency in the newly localized markets improves by approximately 4%–6% as our marketing banners, push notifications, and email campaigns become more resonant with local audiences. The precision in our localized terms of service and legal documentation also plays a role here, as it leads to a measurable decrease in support tickets related to onboarding confusion. By having iZi Media Group handle the entire customer-facing journey, we achieve a level of operational stability that allows us to scale into multiple EEA territories without needing to rapidly inflate our internal compliance or support teams.The reduction in support volume is actually a direct result of the native-focused approach iZi Media Group takes with our communication strategy. By leveraging their experience to create email campaigns and push notifications that are specifically tailored to the nuances of each local market, the messaging becomes significantly clearer for our users.Instead of receiving generic, translated instructions, our clients get content that feels like it was written by a local financial expert. This precision means that users understand the requirements of our campaigns and the steps for KYC immediately, which naturally leads to a measurable drop in tickets. Our support team notices a much calmer onboarding flow in the regions where these native-focused campaigns are live, as the 'confusion gap' is essentially closed by the quality of the localized content itself. It proves that in fintech, speaking the customer's true native language is the most effective way to reduce operational friction.While we maintain strict confidentiality regarding our internal user data, the qualitative feedback from our support leads is backed up by a clear 2%–5% reduction in specific ticket categories. Specifically, we track a drop in queries related to 'KYC clarification' and 'campaign participation rules' in the first two quarters following the launch of the native-focused email and push notification sequences.This decrease is particularly steady in our newer EEA markets. Because the campaigns are written with a deep, native understanding of the local financial landscape, the instructions are intuitive rather than just translated. For an organization of iCard's scale, a 5% reduction in these types of 'preventable' tickets is a significant operational success, as it allows our team to focus on more complex, high-value customer interactions. It proves that investing in high-level cultural localization for our communications directly translates into lower operational friction and a more autonomous UX.
How did iZi Media Group perform from a project management standpoint?
For a long-term partnership spanning from 2022 to 2026, their project management has been consistently disciplined and highly adaptable to our corporate structure. Managing a budget of €100,000–€200,000 across multiple years and diverse service pillars — from legal translation to PR — requires a high level of organizational maturity, and iZi Media Group meets that standard. They don't just act as a distant vendor; they integrate effectively with our internal production and delivery workflows, ensuring that our high-stakes fintech requirements are always prioritized.They absolutely deliver on time, which is critical in an industry where regulatory deadlines and market entry windows are non-negotiable. Whether it's a rapid turnaround for a localized push notification campaign or the complex alignment of our terms of service for a new EEA territory, they hit every milestone we set. Their communication style is proactive rather than reactive; they often anticipate potential bottlenecks in the localization or KYC flows before they become actual issues.What stands out most is their ability to maintain quality over such a long duration. In a four-year project, you often see a dip in attention to detail, but with iZi Media, the precision they apply to our PCI DSS documentation in the first year is the same precision they provide for our most recent expansion. They handle the complexity of our internal departments with professionalism, making the entire management process feel streamlined despite the high-pressure nature of the fintech environment.
What did you find most impressive about them?
What really stands out is their ability to bridge the gap between high-level strategic consulting and the granular, day-to-day execution that a fintech company requires. Most agencies either offer 'big picture' strategy without the technical execution, or they provide localized content without understanding the underlying regulatory and business goals. iZi Media Group does both. They take full ownership of the user journey, ensuring that our €100,000–€200,000 investment translates into actual operational stability across multiple countries.The most unique aspect of our partnership is the level of trust they've built. In an industry where legal compliance and PCI DSS standards are everything, we feel confident handing them the localization of our terms of service and our core KYC flows. They don't just 'translate'; they adapt the entire experience to fit the cultural and legal reality of the target market. Their team is exceptionally fast and communicative, functioning less like an external vendor and more like an integrated department that truly understands the complexities of the digital wallet space.
Are there any areas they could improve?
Since our partnership with iZi Media Group has spanned several years and multiple high-stakes launches, it's rare to find a service provider that maintains such a high level of consistency. If I have to identify an area for 'different' rather than 'better' execution, it would perhaps be the integration of their strategic insights even earlier in our internal product development cycles.Because they have such a deep, localized understanding of how users in different EEA markets react to specific fintech flows, we eventually realize that their input is just as valuable during the initial wireframe stage as it is during the final localization and PR stages. We move toward this more integrated model over time, but in hindsight, involving them as a core strategic consultant from day one of a new feature's conception — rather than as a delivery partner later in the chain — would have likely accelerated our timelines even further.Ultimately, it's a testament to their value; the more we use them, the more we realize we should have been using them across even more departments from the start.
RATINGS
-
Quality
5.0Service & Deliverables
"High-precision fintech localization that ensured full regulatory compliance and trust."
-
Schedule
5.0On time / deadlines
"Consistent, punctual delivery across a complex four-year regional expansion roadmap."
-
Cost
5.0Value / within estimates
"Exceptional ROI through reduced support tickets and increased user sign-ups."
-
Willing to Refer
5.0NPS
"I would recommend iZi Media Group without hesitation to any enterprise-level organization, particularly those in highly regulated sectors like fintech