Meridian Pay cleared a fintech security review without exporting a single row

Meridian Pay processes card transactions across the EU and UK. Every analytics vendor they evaluated failed the same question: does customer data leave our environment?

Three procurement cycles had already died on data residency.

Trace deployed warehouse-native. The analysis compiles to SQL and executes inside their own GlacierDW — the result set returns, the rows never move.

Their row-level security, masking policies and role grants applied unchanged, because Trace is a query rather than a pipeline.

Security sign-off took two weeks instead of two quarters. Not one row of transaction data left their environment, and their existing masking policies applied without modification.

• SOC 2 and GDPR review passed with zero exceptions
• Row-level security and masking honoured unchanged
• Sub-two-second answers on billion-row tables