A funded fintech carries demands that arrive from several directions at once: 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 it, so the controls a partner bank asks about are already in place and evidenced. UK-based, certified to ISO 27001 by a UKAS-accredited body, and working from 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, and 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 already have an EDR and a SIEM. It is the governance and the posture that prove the controls hold.
Fintech diligence is specific. A partner bank wants ISO 27001. A North American buyer wants SOC 2. The FCA wants operational resilience and clear technology risk governance. Card data pulls in PCI DSS, and EU partners pull in a DORA equivalent posture. Knowing which framework a conversation turns on, and having the evidence ready, is the difference between a partnership that clears diligence and one that stalls in it.
A partner bank's questionnaire lands and the deal depends on the answers. We are certified to ISO 27001 by a UKAS-accredited certification body, so we build an ISMS your team runs day to day, and the control environment a SOC 2 report attests to. The certificate a partner bank asks for, backed by controls that 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 checks.
Most fintechs are AWS heavy and well architected, but un-audited at the IAM, KMS, and S3 boundary. We review the 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 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 a regulated business needs.
We are a UK-based team, certified to ISO 27001 by a UKAS-accredited certification body and an appointed Cyber Essentials certification body, working from the Thames Valley. 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 checks.
Yes. Because we are certified to ISO 27001 by a UKAS-accredited certification body ourselves, we know what the standard requires. We run a gap analysis against the standard, build an information security management system your team runs day to day, map the Annex A controls to what you do, and take you through internal audit to certification. The aim is a certificate backed by controls that hold when the partner checks.
Usually the corporate side, not the product. Well funded fintechs tend to get the application layer right, Okta or Auth0 or Cognito configured, observability strong, but identity to corporate IdP federation is incomplete, contractor and advisor laptops sit outside endpoint posture, and internal SaaS has sprawled. 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 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 where you stand and what it takes to close them.
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