Financial Services

Earn customer trust and meet regulatory demands while digital channels and fraud pressure keep growing.

For banks, insurance companies, capital markets organizations and fintech, every new digital channel is both a growth opportunity and a new place to be attacked. Fortify helps financial institutions strengthen security, modernize data and respond to regulatory change without slowing the business.

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Challenges we hear in this sector

Trust is the product. Everything else depends on protecting it.

Customers expect instant, mobile, always-on financial services. Regulators expect proof that those services are safe, resilient and well governed. Both expectations keep rising.

The challenges below are typical of the sector in general, and the starting point for most of our conversations with financial services leaders.

What financial services leaders tell us matters

  • Fraud and cyber attacks that move as fast as digital payments and mobile channels
  • Regulatory expectations on security, resilience and data that keep evolving
  • Legacy core systems that are costly to change and hard to connect to modern channels
  • Data spread across products and systems, which slows risk, finance and customer insight
  • Pressure to adopt AI while keeping decisions explainable and auditable
  • Dependence on third parties and cloud providers that must be governed, not just trusted
Where we lead

Security and regulatory transformation first

In financial services, resilience and compliance are the foundation for everything else. We start there, then connect data and AI to the same controls.

Cybersecurity for a digital institution

Build the ability to detect and respond to threats across channels, payments and third parties.

  • Security maturity and cyber risk assessments
  • Zero Trust and identity modernization
  • SOC transformation and detection and response
  • Incident readiness and recovery planning
  • AI-assisted security operations
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Regulatory transformation

Turn changing supervisory expectations into a managed program rather than a recurring scramble.

  • Mapping regulatory expectations to technology controls
  • Data governance and lineage that supports reporting
  • Evidence and audit readiness across security and data
  • Governance for cloud, AI and third-party risk
  • Roadmaps that sequence change realistically
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Capabilities mapped to our practices

How our four practices apply, and where to start

Each practice has a packaged assessment that gives you a clear picture and a prioritized roadmap before you commit to a larger program.

Cybersecurity & Digital Resilience

The natural lead practice for a regulated institution. Explore Cybersecurity

Data, AI & Analytics

Data modernization and analytics for risk, finance and customers. Explore Data & AI

  • Data governance and architecture
  • Modern data platforms and integration
  • Executive and operational dashboards
  • Starting point: Data Maturity Assessment

AI & Digital Transformation

AI applied where it improves service and decisions, with oversight built in. Explore AI Transformation

  • AI opportunity identification
  • Intelligent automation of manual processes
  • Pilot-to-production planning
  • Starting point: AI Readiness Assessment

Cloud & Technology Modernization

Modernize legacy estates with governance and security designed in. Explore Cloud Modernization

  • Cloud strategy and hybrid-cloud planning
  • Application and platform modernization
  • Cloud governance, security and cost control
  • Starting point: Cloud Readiness Assessment
African context

Financial services in Africa has its own shape

Our focus begins in East Africa and expands as Fortify grows.

Mobile-led customer journeys, fast-growing digital payments and fintech activity, and a mix of local and international institutions all shape the risks and the opportunities. Supervisory expectations on security, data and outsourcing differ between countries, and we help you work out what that means for your own institution.

What this means in practice

  • Designs that account for mobile and agent-based channels as well as branches
  • Controls mapped to the requirements of each country you operate in
  • Data residency and cross-border data questions considered early
  • Solutions your own teams can run, given the local talent market

Built in Africa. Connected Globally.

Customer stories

Financial services outcomes

Customer stories coming soon

Published with customer approval

We publish customer stories only when the customer has agreed. Each one follows the same structure: customer, challenge, approach, solution and outcome.

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Start with where your institution is most exposed.

Talk to an advisor about your security and regulatory priorities, or begin with a packaged cybersecurity assessment.

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