Atlanta carries the nickname Transaction Alley for a real reason: roughly 70 percent of all US payment card transactions flow through companies headquartered in metro Atlanta, including Global Payments, Fiserv, NCR Voixi, TSYS, and InComm. That concentration did not happen by accident, Georgia lifted caps on credit card interest rates and fees in 1987, drawing the financial technology industry to the state, and the region has spent decades building the infrastructure that now touches trillions of dollars in payment volume every year.
That density sets a real bar for reliability. When a meaningful share of the country's card swipes, taps, and mobile payments route through companies based in one metro area, PCI DSS compliance and payments-grade uptime are not aspirational, they are table stakes for any company operating anywhere near that ecosystem. A mobile app built in this market gets built to that same standard, whether the app is a fintech product or something that merely touches a payment flow.
Akoode's mobile teams build with that expectation as the default: payment and transaction logic treated as the part of the app that cannot be allowed to fail, architected with the same discipline the processors down the street already apply to a meaningful share of the nation's transaction volume.