Identity and Access Management built for financial services
Banking, payments, and insurance carry some of the highest identity risk of any sector, where DORA, PCI DSS, and regulators converge on one question: who has access to what, and can you prove it?
Why this sector is different
Financial services firms don't just need good access control: they need evidenced access control. Regulators, auditors, and cyber insurers all expect the same thing: a defensible paper trail showing who had access to what, why, and who approved it, for every system that touches money or customer data.
Three pressures show up more acutely here than almost anywhere else: DORA's explicit focus on third-party and ICT vendor access, the sheer concentration of privileged access around core banking and payment systems, and the operational reality of running identity governance across legacy platforms that predate modern IAM entirely.
Read more about DORA →The parts of IAM that matter most in financial services
Privileged Access Management
Vaulting, rotation, and Just-in-Time (JIT) access for the accounts that can move money or touch core banking, payment, and settlement systems.
See Privileged Access Management (PAM) →Identity Governance & SoD
Segregation-of-duties controls, certifications, and Joiners/Movers/Leavers (JML) processes built to survive an external audit, not just pass an internal check.
See Identity Governance →Third-party & vendor access
Governance over contractor, outsourcer, and ICT vendor access: the exact area DORA places the most explicit regulatory weight on.
See how we govern third-party access →Compliance & Audit Readiness
Mapping identity controls to DORA, GDPR, SOC 2, and whichever framework your regulator and your auditors actually care about.
See Compliance & Audit Readiness →Proven in practice
An evidence-based platform decision, not a vendor relationship
For a financial services firm that had lost confidence in its incumbent identity governance platform, we ran a formal RFP and structured proof-of-concept evaluation across three leading platforms, resulting in a defensible decision with senior stakeholder buy-in.
Read the full case study →Building governance from zero, against a live audit clock
For an insurer with no identity governance platform in place at all, we delivered segregation-of-duties controls and certification workflows from the ground up, directly addressing findings previously raised in external audit.
Read the full case study →Delivery experience, not promises
Years of domain experience
Advisory & consulting projects
Multi-country programmes
Go-live implementations