// About

Built in Zimbabwe. Trusted Across the Region.

A consultancy founded on the principle that financial infrastructure is too critical to be handled by generalists.

// Our Story

Between Vendors, Banks, Assessors and Operations

Infinicore Systems (Pvt) Ltd is a Harare-based infrastructure, payments and compliance consultancy, founded in 2025 by Liam Hughes, who brings over 25 years in IT infrastructure, including nearly a decade engineering payment and continuous-availability platforms for Zimbabwean banks.

We sit between vendors, banks, assessors and operations teams, turning product capability into supportable local delivery.

Founder Experience in Brief

  • BackgroundPreviously nearly a decade at EFT Corporation, supporting Postilion, Stratus and payment-switch platforms for banks across Zimbabwe, Ghana, Zambia and Tanzania.
  • PaymentsPayment switching, POS and card infrastructure engineered and supported across five African markets, with ISO 8583 routing and PCI-DSS controls designed in.
  • AvailabilityHands-on fault-tolerant platform work since 2014, alongside active-active, multi-site and virtualised production estates.
  • FinTechICT leadership for a FinTech shared-services platform: infrastructure-as-code, cloud and mobile banking infrastructure.
  • NetworksEnterprise networking, 802.1X, wireless backbones, VoIP and telecoms, from design through installation and support.
  • OperationsA decade of multi-site enterprise infrastructure in the UK: disaster recovery and backup, new-site provisioning and third-line support.
// Core Values

How We Approach Every Engagement

Integrity

We operate with full transparency — no vendor kickbacks influence our architecture recommendations. The right solution is the one that best serves your infrastructure.

Technical Excellence

Every design decision is grounded in engineering principles. We build to financial-sector standards because we were trained by financial-sector requirements.

Innovation

The Infini ecosystem is the result of years of observing what enterprise monitoring and compliance tooling fails to deliver. We build what the market lacks.

Resilience

Infrastructure resilience is non-negotiable in financial services. We design for failure — active-active clusters, fault-tolerant hardware, and rehearsed failover procedures.

// Who We Serve

Built for regulated, high-consequence environments

Our roots are in banking and payments, where downtime is measured in lost transactions and compliance is non-negotiable. The same discipline applies wherever systems must stay up, stay secure and prove it.

  • Commercial and retail banks
  • Building societies
  • Payment switches and processors
  • Mobile money and FinTech providers
  • Microfinance and regulated lenders
  • Merchant acquirers
  • Other regulated and critical-infrastructure organisations

Selected clientsCABS — Payment infrastructure, platform modernisation and security engineering.

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