Financial Services
Security controls your regulator recognises, built without slowing your releases. Falx helps banks, fintechs, wealth managers and payment firms meet FCA, DORA and PCI DSS expectations with evidence to show.
Service Details
Financial services cyber security is no longer judged on policies alone. Supervisors want proof that your controls work, that you can recover inside your impact tolerances and that you know which third parties your services depend on. You get a team that produces that proof, while your engineers keep shipping.
We work with UK banks, fintechs, wealth managers and payment firms. Our engineers test, build and harden your platforms, and our regulatory specialists map that work to FCA, PRA, DORA and PCI DSS expectations. See how we support other sectors on our industries page.
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You get one body of evidence that answers the FCA, DORA and your card schemes together, rather than three separate projects chasing the same controls.
What keeps financial firms up at night
Regulation, attackers and change all move at once. You deal with all three:
Rules that keep tightening
FCA and PRA operational resilience, DORA for EU operations, PCI DSS for card data and UK GDPR for personal data all ask for evidence, not intentions. You need controls mapped once and reported many times, so audits stop pulling engineers off the roadmap.
Attackers who follow the money
Payment flows, open banking APIs and customer accounts are direct routes to cash. Phishing, account takeover and supplier compromise are the usual way in. You test those routes before an attacker does, and close what you find.
Change on top of legacy
Cloud platforms, microservices and fast release cycles sit alongside core systems that are decades old. You get security built into pipelines and architecture, so new products launch without widening your exposure.
Supervisors want proof, not policies
Most firms have the documents. Where they struggle is showing that the controls behind them work under pressure. Here is what supervision tends to ask for, and what you hand over after working with us.
From supervisory question to evidence
What supervision asks for
- Important business services and their dependencies
- Impact tolerances you can actually recover within
- Third-party and cloud concentration risk
- Incident reporting that meets notification timelines
- Proof that access to critical systems is controlled
What you hand over
- Dependency maps covering suppliers and cloud
- Scenario test results against real cyber attacks
- Penetration test and threat model reports
- Practised incident playbooks with timings
- A board-ready risk report your executives can defend
Regulation we help you meet
Each framework has its own service page, so you can see exactly what is involved:
FCA
Operational resilience and SYSC obligations evidenced in the format supervisors expect.
DORA
ICT risk management, incident reporting, resilience testing and third-party oversight for EU operations.
PCI DSS
Scope reduced, controls tested and evidence ready before your assessor arrives.
UK GDPR
Customer and financial data protected, with breach response that meets the 72-hour reporting window.
Read more on FCA compliance support, DORA compliance, PCI DSS compliance and UK GDPR support.
Solutions for financial services
You get proven services combined around your business, not a fixed package. That might mean penetration testing of your payment APIs, threat modelling for a new product, tighter identity and access controls, or securing your build pipelines.
Compliance Programme
Meet FCA, PRA, DORA, PCI DSS and UK GDPR expectations without slowing product delivery.Deal Security
Find out how secure, resilient and scalable a platform really is before you buy, invest or launch.Technology Transformation
Modernise legacy systems with security built into cloud and operational architecture.Secure Cloud Environments
Run regulated workloads in cloud environments that are hardened, monitored and auditable.
How an engagement runs
We start by mapping your permissions, products and important business services to the rules that apply. Then we test your controls against realistic attacks and package the results as evidence your compliance team can hand to a supervisor.
Map
Which rules apply and where your gaps are
Test
Controls checked against real attack scenarios
Evidence
A pack your supervisor will accept
Controls your regulator recognises
We put multi-factor authentication, sign-in rules and device protection in place across more than 200 identities and devices, ending rogue logins and unmanaged endpoints. You get the same controls, mapped directly to FCA expectations on access control and operational resilience.
Insurers face many of the same pressures, covered on our insurance page. If you invest in financial services businesses, see how we support private equity sponsors. All of our framework work sits within our governance services.
Frequently asked questions
Turn regulatory pressure into evidence
Whether you are a fintech preparing for authorisation, a payment firm facing a PCI DSS audit or a bank answering supervision, tell us where you stand. You get engineers and regulatory specialists working as one team.