Financial Services
Your regulator assumes independent assurance. Your MSP report isn't it.
Financial services firms face expectations the rest of the mid-market does not: operational resilience obligations, third-party risk scrutiny, and regulators that treat technology governance as board business. Self-reported provider assurance does not meet that bar. Independent verification does, and it routinely pays for itself in the cost findings along the way; in one financial services review, our principals' root-cause findings ended years of recurring difficulty. That client's words: 'we have never looked back.'
Regulatory Expectations
Operational resilience and outsourcing obligations assume evidence of independent oversight of critical providers.
Third-Party Concentration
Critical operations concentrated in providers whose performance is self-reported and whose exit path is undocumented.
Trust-Sensitive Data
Client financial data breaches end relationships and invite regulators simultaneously.
Margin Pressure
Cost-out programs that skip IT leave the least-examined spend category untouched.
What our reviews keep finding
- Governance evidence gaps between regulatory expectation and provider reporting
- Vendor concentration risk with no priced exit
- Resilience claims that fail restore-testing
- Benchmark-beating cost recovery in licensing and infrastructure
Where financial services organisations start
Cyber Risk Review
Independent verification of your actual cyber position, written for your board: quantified, prioritised, and aligned with what regulators and insurers now expect.
MSP Audit
An independent audit of your managed service provider: what you pay versus market, what you get versus the contract, and the renegotiation points to fix the gap.
IT Cost Reduction
A forensic, line-by-line audit of your IT spend against market benchmarks, with the specific renegotiation points to recover the difference.
2x value identified, or you don't pay.
The 4-Week Commercial IT Health Check is fixed fee, non-disruptive, and guaranteed in writing: if we don't identify value worth at least twice our fee, we refund it.