IT & Cyber Security Built for Fintech
Your clients are banks, your regulator is the FCA, and your next funding round comes with a due diligence questionnaire. We run security-first IT for fintech SMBs that has to stand up to all three.
The Fintech Squeeze: Enterprise Scrutiny, Startup Resources
Fintech SMBs are held to bank-grade security expectations by clients, partners, investors and the FCA — usually without a single dedicated security hire. Something has to give, and it shouldn't be the deal, the licence or the data.
Due diligence everywhere
Banking partners, enterprise clients and VCs all send security questionnaires — each one blocking a deal or a round.
FCA operational resilience
Regulated firms must map important business services and prove IT can stay within impact tolerances.
Data worth attacking
Financial and personal data makes you a priority target — and makes every incident a notifiable event.
No security headcount
A full-time CISO costs £120k+. Until Series B, that budget simply doesn't exist.
A Security Function, Not Just an IT Supplier
Security Operations
- Managed EDR on every device
- MFA and identity hardening
- 24/7 monitoring and alerting
Cloud-Native IT
- Google Workspace / M365 hardening
- SaaS access governance
- Zero-trust, no-office-server setup
Compliance Fast-Track
- Cyber Essentials / CE Plus
- ISO 27001 & SOC 2 readiness
- Fixed prices, published openly
Due Diligence Support
- Investor & partner DDQ answers
- Reusable evidence pack
- Enterprise vendor assessments
Operational Resilience
- Important business service mapping
- Impact tolerance testing for IT
- Third-party exit planning
Incident Readiness
- IR plan with FCA notification steps
- Tested, immutable backups
- Breach response support
From First Call to Audit-Ready
Security Review
Free assessment of your current stack against what your clients, partners and regulator will actually check.
Baseline Hardening
MFA everywhere, managed encrypted devices, cloud configuration, backups — the controls every DDQ asks about first.
Evidence & Policies
Right-sized policies and a living evidence pack that answers questionnaires in days, not weeks.
Certify Where It Pays
Cyber Essentials for the baseline; ISO 27001 or SOC 2 when your market demands it — at published fixed prices.
Run It Ongoing
Managed IT, security operations and quarterly reviews so resilience keeps pace as you scale.
Proven With Regulated, High-Stakes Data
Lean trading team, bank-grade security expectations
A ten-person environmental commodities brokerage handling sensitive trading data across European markets had no in-house IT expertise — and counterparties who audited their security before trading with them.
We migrated them to a hardened Google Workspace environment, deployed endpoint protection and compliance-ready controls for financial services, and built their assessment evidence pack. They've since passed multiple client security assessments, unlocking partnerships with larger energy companies and institutional traders.
What Clients Say
“They understood immediately that our counterparties' security reviews were make-or-break. The controls and evidence they put in place got us through every one.”
“Having the person who designed our security answer the due diligence calls directly changed the tone of every review.”
Fintech IT Questions, Answered
Yes. We support FCA-authorised and FCA-adjacent businesses with the technology side of operational resilience: mapping important business services, setting impact tolerances for IT, incident response, exit plans for critical third parties, and the evidence regulators and auditors expect.
This is one of our core services. We build a security baseline and evidence pack once, then use it to answer investor DDQs, banking partner assessments and enterprise client questionnaires in days rather than weeks.
It depends on who you sell to. Banking partners and enterprise clients increasingly expect one of the two; investors often accept strong controls with a roadmap. We help you pick the right certification for your market and run the process end to end — see our fixed-price packages.
That's most of our fintech clients: cloud-native, hybrid or fully remote teams on Google Workspace or Microsoft 365. We secure identities, devices and SaaS rather than racks of hardware.
Managed IT and security runs per user per month; compliance work is fixed-price. Unusually for this market, we publish both — see our pricing page for the numbers.
Get Ahead of the Next Questionnaire
Free Fintech Security Review
- Your stack assessed against real DDQ and FCA expectations
- Prioritised gap list — what would fail a review today
- Clear roadmap with published, fixed prices
- Delivered by a CISSP, not a sales team