A funded fintech carries demands ordinary IT was never built for: operational resilience the FCA expects to see evidenced, an ISO 27001 certificate a partner bank asks for before signing, a SOC 2 report a North American buyer wants, and an AWS estate that has to stand up at the IAM and data boundary. We secure, run, build, and prove the technology behind all of it, so a partnership is never lost on a control nobody owned. UK based, UKAS ISO 27001 certified ourselves, and based in the Thames Valley.
For a payments, lending, or banking-as-a-service business, security stopped being an IT concern and became a commercial one. A partner bank runs diligence before a deal. An investor asks the board about cyber posture from Series A onwards. The FCA expects operational resilience and technology risk to be governed and evidenced. The gap at a well funded fintech is rarely the tooling, you usually already have an EDR and a SIEM, it is the governance and the posture that prove the controls actually hold. That is the work we do.
Fintech diligence is specific. A partner bank wants ISO 27001. A US buyer wants SOC 2. The FCA wants operational resilience and clear technology risk governance. Knowing which framework a given conversation actually turns on, and having the evidence ready for it, is the difference between a partnership that clears diligence and one that stalls in it. The drivers below are the ones we are most often brought in to address.
The pressures are specific to a funded, fast moving fintech, and so is the cost of stalling on them. These are the problems we are most often brought in to solve.
A partner bank's security questionnaire lands, and the deal depends on the answers. They want ISO 27001, a clear posture, and evidence behind it. We help you build the management system and produce the proof, so diligence clears rather than drags.
You already run an EDR and a SIEM, but identity to corporate IdP federation is incomplete, contractor and advisor laptops sit outside posture, and internal SaaS has sprawled past fifty apps. We close the corporate side so it matches the application layer you already got right.
The build is usually well architected, but the IAM, KMS, and S3 boundary is often un-audited, and the public API surface keeps growing. We review the AWS posture against the controls a partner or assessor will probe, and help you evidence resilience and recovery.
We do not sell fintech a different product. We point the same four disciplines at the obligations and risks that are specific to it, and link you to the service that does the work. One partner, no gaps between suppliers for a failure to hide in.
We are UKAS ISO 27001 certified ourselves, so we take you through an ISMS that is genuinely operable rather than a binder for an audit, and build the control environment a SOC 2 report attests to. The certificate a partner bank asks for, backed by controls that actually hold.
The gap at a funded fintech is usually the corporate side, not the product. We federate identity to your IdP, bring contractor and advisor endpoints into posture, and get a grip on SaaS sprawl, with monitoring and incident response behind it. The unglamorous work diligence actually checks.
Most fintechs are AWS heavy and often well architected, but un-audited at the IAM, KMS, and S3 boundary. We review the cloud posture, harden it against the controls an assessor will probe, and build the backup and recovery that operational resilience expects you to evidence.
We build the policies, evidence packs, and audit trails that the FCA, partners, and investors ask for, and help you answer ICT third party risk on both sides. Where manual underwriting or onboarding is ripe for it, we add AI with the governance and logging that a regulated business needs.
We are a UK based team, UKAS ISO 27001 certified ourselves and a Cyber Essentials certification body, working from the Thames Valley. We are not a regulator and we are not your compliance counsel, so where a regulatory position is genuinely a legal judgement, we work alongside your advisers rather than overstating what we cover. What we own is the technology and the evidence: the AWS posture, the identity and endpoint controls, the ISMS, and the proof that stands up when a partner or assessor checks.
Yes, and we do it from experience rather than a template, because we are UKAS ISO 27001 certified ourselves. We run a gap analysis against the standard, build an information security management system that is genuinely operable, map the Annex A controls to what you actually do, and take you through internal audit to certification. The aim is a certificate backed by controls that hold when the partner checks, not a binder assembled for the audit.
Usually the corporate side, not the product. Well funded fintechs tend to get the application layer right, Okta or Auth0 or Cognito properly configured, observability strong, but identity to corporate IdP federation is incomplete, contractor and advisor laptops sit outside endpoint posture, and internal SaaS has sprawled past fifty apps. We close those gaps so the corporate environment matches the standard your product already meets, which is what diligence tends to probe.
Yes. Most fintechs we see are AWS heavy and often well architected, but un-audited at the IAM, KMS, and S3 boundary, with a public API surface that keeps growing. We review the posture against the controls a partner or assessor will actually probe, work alongside your DevOps team rather than around them, and help you evidence the backup and recovery that operational resilience expects you to demonstrate.
We build and run the control environment that a SOC 2 report attests to, which overlaps heavily with an ISO 27001 management system, so the two are usually pursued together rather than from scratch. The independent attestation itself is issued by a separate audit firm, as the framework requires. We get you ready for it and stand behind the controls; the report is signed by the assessor.
Operational resilience asks you to identify your important business services, set impact tolerances, and be able to show you can stay within them, including through a technology failure or a third party outage. We build the technology controls, the backup and recovery, and the evidence behind that picture, and help you answer the ICT third party risk questions on both sides, where you are a supplier and where you rely on suppliers. The regulatory judgement stays with your compliance advisers; the technology and the proof are ours.
Send us the security questionnaire from your partner bank, or the gaps you already know are there. We will tell you plainly where you stand and what it takes to close them. We reply within one working day, and you will speak to an engineer, not a salesperson.
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