FINMA Compliance

Turn FINMA’s IT expectations into configured, audit-ready systems.

FINMA holds your board accountable for managing technology risk, and it expects you to show your work rather than simply assert it. Penta helps FINMA-supervised firms translate those expectations into the access controls, logging, tested recovery and written policy an auditor will look for. From a single outsourced application to a fully managed private cloud, we take on as much or as little as you need.
Geneva FINMA Compliance

FINMA supervises outcomes, not paperwork

FINMA doesn't certify your IT. Instead, it supervises outcomes and expects you to prove your controls work and keep the evidence current. The bar keeps rising: cyber attacks are now a constant, and more of them arrive through suppliers and shared service providers, putting how you run your IT firmly in scope. Whatever your size, these expectations cluster into six areas:

  • ICT risk management

  • Cyber risk management

  • Critical data and access

  • Outsourcing and the cloud

  • Operational resilience

  • Incident reporting

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Download our FINMA IT compliance guide

Download Penta’s FINMA IT compliance guide for the specifics: every current FINMA expectation mapped to a control objective, a configuration and the evidence an audit will ask for, across Microsoft 365, managed private cloud and infrastructure as a service. It is written by our IT governance team and updated every year as FINMA’s expectations change.

 

Built for regulated IT, not retrofitted to it

Outsource to Penta, and you inherit the proof.

 

Penta has helped financial-sector clients meet FINMA’s expectations since 1996. We work from two global financial centres, Geneva and Dubai’s DIFC, and run our own secure data centres. We build IT to pass a FINMA review rather than reshaping it to fit one after the fact.

When Penta runs part of your stack, you don’t just get managed IT. You inherit independently audited assurance you can hand straight to your auditor and to FINMA. Penta provides clients a yearly ISAE 3402 Type 2 report on its infrastructure and processes, holds an ISAE 3000 assurance report mapped to FINMA’s outsourcing expectations, is moving to SOC 2 Type 2, and is certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022. The duty stays yours; the evidence for the outsourced part comes ready-made.

  • Compliance-built infrastructure: IT designed to meet a FINMA review, not retrofitted to one.
  • Inheritable assurance: Independent ISAE 3402 Type 2 reporting your auditor can rely on.
  • Swiss & UAE data sovereignty: Critical data kept in Penta’s secure Geneva, Lausanne and DIFC data centres.
  • Advisory across the lifecycle: Governance, audits, policies and resilience, as much or as little as you need.

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