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Banking and financial services
Banks, insurers, asset managers and financial market infrastructure carry the heaviest resilience obligations in Europe, and the least tolerance for downtime.
The threat profile we plan against
- Regulatory concentration. FINMA operational resilience expectations, DORA for EU exposure, and audit committees that expect evidence, not assurances.
- ICT and third party risk. Core banking, payments and market data depend on a small set of critical providers whose failure becomes yours.
- Cyber extortion. Ransomware against institutions and their suppliers, with disclosure duties running in parallel to recovery.
- Reputation velocity. A service outage is public within minutes and priced within hours.
The regulatory drivers
Financial institutions sit under FINMA expectations on operational resilience in Switzerland and under DORA for EU operations and clients, with ICT continuity, testing and third party oversight as explicit duties. ISO 22301 and ISO 27001 provide the certifiable backbone for both.
Consulting
Business impact analysis, continuity and crisis frameworks, and certification readiness against ISO 22301 and ISO 27001, built for this sector's realities.
See consulting ›Training and exercising
Leadership crisis exercises and accredited training that turn plans into rehearsed behaviour, including Operation HELVETIA.
See training ›Resilience Arena
Our platform for living plans, in-platform simulations and audit-ready compliance evidence across sites and teams.
See the platform ›See how this works in practice in our case studies, or start from the wider discipline on our business continuity management page.
Does DORA apply to Swiss financial firms?
Directly it binds EU financial entities, but Swiss firms are routinely pulled in through EU subsidiaries, EU clients and contractual flow down, and as ICT providers to in scope entities. We map your exposure precisely before you spend on the wrong programme.
What does FINMA expect on operational resilience?
Identified critical functions, defined tolerances for disruption, tested continuity and recovery arrangements, and governance that owns the result. Our assessments are built to stand in front of a supervisory review.
Can you work alongside our internal risk function?
That is our normal mode. We bring the practitioner method and the regulatory read; your second line keeps ownership and the audit trail.
Resilience built for banking and financial services.
A confidential conversation with a senior practitioner who knows the sector. We respond within 24 hours. No obligation.
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