The Use Case Café event hosted by Cockroach Labs on March 25, 2025, highlighted the intersection of FinTech and modern payment systems. Shannon Dew and Scott Traver discussed the importance of strong security and compliance, maximum resilience and minimum downtime, ability to scale transactions effortlessly, and ensuring consistent and correct data everywhere in modern payment systems. They introduced CockroachDB as a streamlined solution that can handle data more efficiently by strategically placing it where it's needed most. Spreedly, a global payments orchestration platform, has successfully migrated to CockroachDB, showcasing its benefits in handling 93 million revenue transactions per month with high security, performance, and uptime standards. The event provided valuable insights into how CockroachDB supports Spreedly's payment orchestration platform, highlighting features like table locality, regional by row tables, and global tables that ensure data accuracy and efficiency.