Case Study: Travelex achieves faster CI/CD delivery and £300K savings with CircleCI

Travelex gains scale and speed, while saving £300K

Travelex, the foreign exchange company founded in 1976, needed to keep modernizing its cloud-native operations while protecting sensitive financial transaction data. As its legacy on-premise systems grew more complex, Travelex turned to CircleCI and its CI/CD platform to help teams build pipelines without creating bottlenecks, while meeting strict security and compliance requirements.

CircleCI implemented reusable templates, secure automation, and container-based CI/CD workflows that made it easier for Travelex to scale development and delivery across teams. The result was a major acceleration in deployment time—from three to four months down to about three weeks for basic infrastructure—and a reduction in testing and project timelines from months to just days, helping Travelex save roughly £300,000 over five years.

Travelex

Mayank Goswami

Assistant Vice President