Financial Services .
Banking, insurance and fintech — secure, compliant, customer-centric.
South African and pan-African financial institutions carry the heaviest regulatory and threat burden of any sector, while competing against digital-first entrants on speed. Our work concentrates on the three areas where that tension shows: detection and response capability, fraud and financial-crime analytics, and the data foundations that make both possible.
Regulatory context
- POPIA
- FICA
- PCI DSS
- Joint Standard 2 of 2024
- ISO 27001
Sector pressures we are built for
Continuous threat exposure
Financial services remain the most targeted sector on the continent, with credential-based intrusion and business email compromise leading the loss table.
Regulatory weight
POPIA, FICA, the Joint Standard on Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience, and PCI DSS all demand evidence, not intent.
Fragmented customer data
Legacy core systems and acquired books leave the single customer view incomplete, weakening both service and risk models.
Legacy core modernisation
Mainframe and monolithic core platforms constrain the pace at which new products can be launched.
What we deliver in this sector
Detection and response design
Log source inventory, use-case design and alert tuning specification tuned to financial-sector threat intelligence, with reporting suitable for board and regulator.
Fraud and AML analytics
Real-time scoring models for transaction fraud, application fraud and anti-money-laundering alerting, with tuning to control false positives.
Regulatory reporting automation
Automated, auditable reporting packs replacing manual spreadsheet consolidation.
Customer data platforms
Governed single customer view across core banking, digital channels and third-party sources.
Cyber resilience testing
Tabletop exercises, breach-and-attack simulation and recovery validation aligned to regulatory expectations.
What we're built to address in this sector
These are the problems we scope engagements against and the measures we agree before work starts. We publish what we are built to do rather than borrowing someone else's results.
- Regulatory control mapping against POPIA, the Cybercrimes Act and the FSCA Joint Standard, completed before architecture sign-off
- Executive reporting sourced from a single governed model layer rather than parallel spreadsheets
- A documented evidence chain for every control implemented, structured for external audit
Related practices
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