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Weavr is a London-based fintech company specializing in embedded finance solutions. Through its unique architecture, Weavr enables brands to seamlessly integrate financial services directly into their applications. As the company expands its mobile ecosystem, maintaining strong security, compliance, and operational integrity across diverse client environments has become increasingly critical.

left-quote-svgrepo-com-1At Weavr, our mission is to make financial services as easy to integrate as any other cloud plug-in, without compromising security or compliance. Approov has become a foundational component of our mobile security architecture, providing the real-time app attestation and dynamic certificate pinning capabilities required to securely scale our embedded finance platform across diverse customer environments.

- Adrian Mizzi, Co-Founder and CTO, Weavr 

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The Challenge

Weavr’s headless delivery model enables customers to embed financial services into their own mobile applications while maintaining control of the user experience. However, this also expands the attack surface, requiring Weavr to ensure that only legitimate, untampered applications could access its financial APIs and backend services.

As a provider operating in the highly regulated financial sector, Weavr also needed to meet PSD2 and Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) requirements while demonstrating strong protection against fraud, automated attacks, and unauthorized access. In addition, the company required a scalable security framework to support long-term growth and operational continuity as it expanded its strategic partnership with Approov.

How Approov Mobile App Protection Helped

Approov delivers a multi-layered mobile application security strategy designed to protect Weavr’s APIs, SDKs, and embedded finance ecosystem.

Through continuous app attestation, every API request is verified in real time to ensure that only genuine, approved applications running on trusted devices can access Weavr services. Approov also eliminates Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) vulnerabilities with dynamic, cloud-managed certificate pinning, removing the need for hardcoded certificates and allowing updates without requiring app releases. In addition, the SDK continuously monitors for emulators, debuggers, app cloners, rooted or jailbroken devices, and advanced instrumentation frameworks such as Frida and Xposed, helping detect tampering and unauthorized environments.

Weavr also benefit from real-time threat visibility, gaining immediate insight into suspicious activity, active threats, and attack patterns through centralized monitoring and reporting dashboards.

left-quote-svgrepo-com-1We are thrilled to extend our long-term partnership with Weavr as they continue to redefine the embed- ded finance landscape. In a ‘headless’ service model, the traditional security perimeter disappears, mak- ing mobile app integrity the new frontline of defense. By integrating Approov, Weavr has demonstrated a security-first mindset, ensuring that their financial infrastructure remains accessible only to legitimate users and resilient against sophisticated automated threats targeting the fintech sector.

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