SOC 2 — fintechs and payment processors handling financial data use SOC 2 Type II to demonstrate operational security to banks, investors, and regulators. A clean SOC 2 report is table stakes for enterprise financial partnerships.
ISO 27001 — banks, insurers, and fintechs operating globally rely on ISO 27001 to demonstrate compliance with international financial regulations and data protection requirements.
GDPR — fintechs, payment processors, and banking platforms handling financial and personal data of EU customers must satisfy GDPR's data protection, consent management, and cross-border transfer requirements.
HIPAA — companies processing healthcare payments, insurance claims, or health savings account data must comply with HIPAA's safeguards for protected health information.
HITRUST — banks, insurers, and financial technology companies handling sensitive financial and personal data use HITRUST to demonstrate comprehensive compliance that satisfies multiple regulatory requirements simultaneously.
ISO 42001 — fintechs and financial institutions using AI for credit scoring, fraud detection, trading algorithms, and customer service face heightened scrutiny around AI fairness, transparency, and explainability.
USDP — financial institutions subject to federal, state, and international data protection requirements use USDP to consolidate overlapping obligations into a single compliance baseline.
Agency deploys forward-deployed AI agents directly into your security and compliance infrastructure, operating your entire compliance program across every applicable framework — so your team builds financial products while Agency builds the trust infrastructure that makes them sellable.
Multi-Framework Orchestration — Armada PSCO maps controls across SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HITRUST, HIPAA, and ISO 42001 in a unified ontology. Implement a control once and satisfy every overlapping requirement automatically. Verse C2 orchestrates enforcement across your entire technology stack.
Continuous Evidence Management — Agency collects, organizes, and maintains evidence across every framework automatically — mapped to the correct control domain, maturity level, and assessment criteria through Umberto.
Automated Questionnaire Response — Agency manages security questionnaire responses using validated evidence from your compliance program, compressing review cycles from weeks to hours and freeing your team from questionnaire fatigue.
Vendor Risk Management — Agency assesses and monitors every vendor that handles financial or personal data, ensuring data processing agreements are in place, vendor security posture meets framework requirements, and vendor risk findings are documented continuously.
Trust Center Operations — Agency maintains audit-ready compliance documentation that powers your trust center — giving buyers and regulators real-time visibility into your compliance posture and reducing security review friction.
AI Governance — for financial institutions deploying AI, Agency implements ISO 42001 controls covering bias mitigation, fairness, transparency, and explainability — building the governance framework that satisfies emerging AI regulations.
Managed Detection and Response — Agency MDR provides fully managed detection, response, and incident documentation with compliance-grade evidence and breach notification documentation meeting GDPR's 72-hour and HIPAA's 60-day notification requirements.
Cross-Framework Complexity — pursuing SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HITRUST, and HIPAA simultaneously creates hundreds of overlapping controls. Without cross-mapping, compliance teams rebuild the same controls for every framework independently, draining budget and time.
Audited Compliance — SOC 2 Type II requires continuous evidence over observation periods. ISO 27001 demands ongoing risk assessments and ISMS documentation. HITRUST evaluates maturity across five levels. Combined, the manual documentation burden overwhelms internal teams.
Questionnaire Fatigue — financial services companies face relentless security questionnaires from banking partners, enterprise buyers, and regulators. Each questionnaire demands custom responses that consume compliance team bandwidth.
Vendor Risk — every third-party vendor handling financial or personal data introduces compliance obligations. GDPR mandates vendor assessment and data processing agreements. HITRUST requires rigorous third-party risk management.
Trust & Transparency — financial services buyers and regulators demand visible proof of compliance maturity. A current SOC 2 report, ISO 27001 certificate, and HITRUST certification displayed on a trust center accelerate deal cycles.
Risk Visibility — continuous monitoring across payment systems, cloud infrastructure, customer data stores, and vendor integrations requires real-time visibility that point-in-time assessments cannot provide.
Policy & Access — financial regulators scrutinize access controls, privileged access management, onboarding/offboarding procedures, and data handling policies with exceptional rigor.
