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Fintech, EMIs and Payments

Payment businesses face regulatory scrutiny disproportionate to their size, on timelines set by licensing rather than by engineering capacity.

What we do for payment businesses

  • PCI DSS scoping, gap assessment and remediation planning.
  • Penetration testing of applications, APIs and infrastructure.
  • Secure source code review of the payment application and its integrations.
  • Security assurance supporting licence applications and regulatory submissions.
  • IT general controls audit where a bank partner or regulator requires it.
  • Virtual CISO for organisations that need accountable security leadership without a permanent hire.
  • Third-party and cloud assurance, which is most of the estate for most fintechs.

The scaling problem

A fintech that built fast to reach product-market fit typically arrives at its first serious assurance engagement with a small engineering team, heavy cloud dependency, minimal formal documentation, and a licensing deadline. The instinct is to buy tooling. The more effective sequence is usually: define scope precisely, reduce it where legitimately possible, fix the identity and access foundations, then instrument monitoring.

We scope engagements to that reality rather than issuing a report that assumes a control function you do not have and cannot staff before the deadline.

Scope first, tooling second

CDE card data Connected systems In scope whether you like it or not Wider estate Out of scope only if segmentation holds Scope reduction Cheaper than compliance across the wholeestate
Reducing scope early is almost always cheaper than achieving compliance across an unnecessarily large estate.

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Tell us what you are actually being asked for

Describe the situation rather than the service. Working out the right scope is part of what we do, and it costs nothing to ask.

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