Industries / Financial Services & Insurance
Resilience Starts with Understanding Dependencies.
Map how banking, insurance and payment services actually depend on suppliers. Turn regulatory obligations into an operating rhythm your board can defend.
Financial Services ecosystem
Strengthen regulatory compliance, supplier oversight and operational resilience across your third-party ecosystem.
Where the risk lives
Third-party risk in financial services, in plain terms.
Regulatory pressure keeps growing
DORA, PRA SS2/21, APRA CPS 230, and equivalent frameworks now expect evidence of critical supplier mapping, impact tolerances and exit plans.
Concentration risk is invisible
A handful of cloud, payment and data providers underpin most of the sector. Without dependency mapping, concentration risk hides in plain sight.
Assurance is questionnaire-heavy, insight-light
Assessment fatigue drains second-line teams while leaving the board with little clarity on what would actually break if a critical vendor failed.
Incidents cross functional lines
A payments outage is a business, technology and customer event at once. Response needs shared context, not siloed checklists.
Ecosystem view
The suppliers, systems and customers that make financial services work.
A simplified view of the entities we help you map, connect and monitor as one operating picture.
Critical business services
- Retail Banking
- Wholesale Payments
- Insurance Claims
- Trading & Markets
Suppliers & platforms
- Core Banking Platform
- Card Networks
- Cloud Provider
- KYC & Data Providers
Customers & counterparts
- Retail Customers
- Corporate Clients
How VenDefend helps
A four-stage rhythm, tuned for financial services.
- 01
Understand where the business really lives
Map critical business services to the processes, systems and third parties that keep them running - in language a regulator recognises.
- 02
Assess suppliers by materiality, not volume
Prioritise oversight on the vendors that actually underpin regulated services. Retire questionnaires that generate paperwork, not insight.
- 03
Respond with a joined-up playbook
Incidents inherit the dependency map, so response teams see impacted services, customer segments and regulatory reporting triggers instantly.
- 04
Improve continuously against tolerances
Track impact tolerances, exit-plan readiness and control performance against every material supplier over time.
Business outcomes
What changes when you Start with Where.
DORA & CPS 230
Regulator-aligned
Evidence critical service mapping, impact tolerances and exit strategies out of the box.
80%
Less questionnaire drag
Focus assurance effort on the small set of vendors that carry regulated services.
Board-ready
One source of truth
Executives see concentration, exposure and resilience posture in a single view.
Start with Where.
A 45-minute executive review. We map one critical service with you and show you what your current programme is missing.