A banking and treasury platform built for finance teams who can't afford to discover problems at end of day. Meridian brings live reconciliation, corporate cards, and bill pay into one dashboard. Designed around the CFO's fundamental need: knowing where the money actually is, right now.
CFOs and finance teams live with constant uncertainty, bank balances that lag by hours, reconciliation that takes days, and integrations that break silently. Meridian needed a landing page that immediately communicated the proposition: your books are always closed, always accurate, always live.
Design challenge: make financial certainty feel like a feature, not just a claim.
How do you make live financial data feel trustworthy rather than overwhelming? How do you communicate both depth and stability at the same time? And how does a product pass an IT security review before the user even reaches the feature list?
These questions shaped every design decision, from the monospace financial typography to the lime accent on positive actions.
Research Insights
| Feature | Mercury | Brex | Ramp | Airwallex | Meridian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Real-Time Balances | ✓ | ✓ | ~ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Auto-Reconciliation | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ✓ |
| Multi-Entity | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Virtual Cards | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bill Pay | ✓ | ~ | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ |
| FX / Multi-Currency | ~ | ✓ | ~ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SOC 2 Type II | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
73% of SME and scale-up finance teams still perform manual bank reconciliation at least weekly. Representing an average of 6 hours of finance staff time per cycle. This was the primary pain point Meridian needed to visually solve. (Source: Xero SME Finance Report 2024)
Companies with real-time financial data access are 4.2x more likely to catch fraud within 24 hours and 3.8x more likely to identify cash flow issues before they become critical. The live data proposition was strategically central, not a feature. (Source: Deloitte CFO Survey 2024)
87% of B2B fintech buyers list security certification and regulatory compliance as non-negotiable before evaluation, not a decision factor, but a qualification gate. Meridian had to pass this gate in the above-the-fold experience. (Source: G2 Fintech Buyer Survey 2024)
Meridian's users range from Series B CFOs seeking real-time certainty, to VP Finance managing multi-entity consolidation, to startup Finance Managers needing automated spend controls, each with distinct evaluation criteria.
A cohesive design system built to communicate financial trustworthiness at every touchpoint. From the monospace numerics to the lime positive-action accent.
Lime signals positive action and financial health. Navy communicates depth, stability, and institutional credibility. The pairing is precise, not decorative.
JetBrains Mono for all financial figures, tabular precision. Bricolage Grotesque for display and marketing copy.
The central design question for Meridian was whether a screen full of financial data could feel calm rather than anxious. The typographic choice of JetBrains Mono for all numerical values was the single most important decision. Monospace numerics align vertically, reducing the visual noise that causes finance teams to distrust dashboards. Lime on navy signals action and growth without the clinical starkness of pure green on white. The lime/red positive/negative encoding also passes WCAG AA for colour-blind users when paired with icon and label secondary encoding, a constraint that shaped the entire colour system.
Design Highlights
Meridian, Fintech Banking & Treasury Platform
Tools and methods used throughout the Meridian design process. From competitive audit and CFO interview synthesis through to precision financial dashboard execution.
Financial product design lives or dies on trust. Before any wireframe, the process started with understanding what breaks that trust. Slow data, opaque fees, dashboards that show information but not insight. The process below reflects six phases, but honestly, the first three were mostly about unlearning assumptions about what a fintech dashboard should look like.
Meridian demonstrated that product design can communicate financial trust at a level previously reserved for enterprise sales decks. Every metric below is a design outcome, not a sales claim.
"Fintech design taught me something that took longer than it should have to understand: the feature is never the product. The trust is the product. Every time we added another capability to the hero dashboard, we diluted the single thing the CFO needed to see first, that the numbers were accurate. The hardest conversations in this project weren't about design. They were about what not to show."
"The colour accessibility constraint ended up being one of the best design decisions in the project. Because the lime/red system had to work for colour-blind users, we built in icon and label reinforcement throughout, which made the dashboard more readable for everyone, not just the 8% of users who needed it."