Infrastructure As Strategy: How Tatum Bank Enhanced Operational Resilience with Open Access Data Centres

In the case study, Infrastructure as Strategy, Tatum Bank’s partnership with OADC demonstrates how infrastructure resilience can move beyond a technical necessity to become a strategic growth driver. By building on a secure, compliant and high-performance foundation, the Bank has positioned itself to scale confidently, innovate rapidly and deliver a superior customer experience in a highly regulated and competitive market.

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About Tatum Bank

Tatum Bank is a forward-thinking, customer-centric financial institution dedicated to offering innovative banking solutions. From inception, Tatum Bank approached infrastructure not as a back-end requirement but as a core strategic pillar. As a digital-first financial institution, it required a highly available, scalable, and low latency environment capable of supporting real-time transactions and seamless customer experiences.

Regulatory expectations also shaped early decisions, with the Bank needing to demonstrate strong capabilities in data protection, disaster recovery and operational resilience before launch.

Rather than building its own data centre, which would introduce cost and complexity, the Bank partnered with OADC to accelerate deployment, ensure enterprise-grade reliability, and focus internal resources on innovation and service delivery.

Infrastructure resilience was embedded at a leadership level, treated as a board-level priority due to its direct impact on customer trust, revenue and brand reputation.

To mitigate risks, the Bank prioritized eliminating downtime, strengthening cybersecurity, ensuring robust disaster recovery and meeting regulatory compliance requirements. Scalability and performance were equally critical, ensuring infrastructure would not constrain growth.

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