Transform your financial services software delivery with OTTRA's specialised DevSecOps expertise. We help financial institutions modernise development processes, integrate security from day one, achieve DORA compliance, and deliver reliable software while maintaining strict regulatory controls.
DORA is now in force with penalties up to 2% of global annual turnover. Financial institutions must balance unprecedented regulatory complexity with competitive demands for innovation velocity and customer responsiveness.
Managing DORA, PCI-DSS, SOC 2, MiFID II, GDPR, FCA regulations, and dozens of other frameworks creates compliance bottlenecks. Traditional approaches cannot efficiently address converging requirements across prudential regulation, conduct rules, operational resilience, and financial crime prevention.
DORA mandates comprehensive ICT risk management, incident reporting, resilience testing, third-party oversight, and information sharing. Threat-led penetration testing on live production systems, critical third-party risk registers, and subcontracting chain visibility create unprecedented operational demands while maintaining software delivery velocity.
Compliance costs increased 60% since the financial crisis while regulatory updates average 200+ daily globally. 87% of financial services companies experience skills gaps. Legacy systems consume 80% of IT budgets for maintenance, leaving insufficient resources for compliance transformation or innovation.
Comprehensive solutions designed specifically for the unique challenges of financial services software delivery
Implement the five DORA pillars: ICT risk management with board oversight, incident reporting with standardised dashboards, threat-led penetration testing automation, third-party risk registers with subcontracting chain visibility, and information sharing capabilities. Transform compliance from manual burden into automated, continuous validation.
Codify regulatory requirements—PCI-DSS, SOC 2, GDPR, FCA regulations—into automated policies that continuously validate compliance across systems. Reduce audit preparation time by 60-80% through automated evidence collection, policy-as-code enforcement, and unified compliance dashboards replacing manual documentation.
Implement CI/CD pipelines with embedded security scanning, policy enforcement gates, and complete audit trails. Deploy payment systems and trading platforms multiple times daily while maintaining strict segregation of duties, change authorization, and compliance controls through GitOps governance models.
Build comprehensive ICT service provider registers with automated tracking of contracts, data locations, subcontracting chains, and service levels. Implement supply chain security with automated scanning of third-party dependencies, Software Bill of Materials generation, and rapid vulnerability response across entire dependency trees.
Automate threat-led penetration testing, chaos engineering for resilience validation, and continuous scenario testing for business continuity. Demonstrate severe-but-plausible scenario resilience required by UK FCA and EU frameworks with complete audit documentation and recovery capabilities validation.
Transform 70% of banks reliant on legacy systems through phased cloud migration. Maintain compliance during system replacement, implement hybrid architectures for gradual modernisation, and consolidate 10+ separate tools into unified platforms reducing complexity, cost, and security risk.
"We achieved what was previously assumed to be impossible—increasing deployment frequency from once every 1-2 weeks to multiple times per day, representing over 1,000% improvement in deployment velocity. All while maintaining the strict regulatory compliance and controls inherent to financial services. The platform provides end-to-end visibility across the entire development ecosystem with complete traceability supporting audit requirements and consistent monitoring."
End-to-end services designed for the unique needs of financial services software teams
Comprehensive review of current development practices, regulatory compliance posture, and DORA readiness. Identify gaps across DORA pillars, efficiency bottlenecks, legacy system constraints, and opportunities for automation to reduce compliance costs by 60-80%.
Book Assessment →Design and implement continuous integration pipelines with embedded security scanning, policy enforcement, and complete audit trails. Support segregation of duties, multi-approval workflows, and reproducible deployments meeting strict financial services governance requirements.
Learn More →Implement policy-as-code frameworks codifying PCI-DSS, SOC 2, GDPR, and regulatory requirements. Automate evidence collection, compliance reporting, and policy enforcement reducing manual audit preparation by 60-80% while improving consistency across systems.
Explore Automation →Execute comprehensive DORA operationalisation across all five pillars. Implement ICT risk management frameworks, incident reporting dashboards, threat-led penetration testing automation, third-party risk registers, and information sharing capabilities with compliance validation.
Implement DORA →Specialised training programmes for financial services development and compliance teams. From GitLab fundamentals to advanced DevSecOps practices, compliance automation, and secure software delivery for regulated environments.
View Training →Consolidate 10+ separate tools into unified DevSecOps platforms. Migrate from legacy development tools to modern platforms while maintaining strict compliance, managing third-party risk, and reducing operational costs 20-35%.
Start Migration →DORA mandatory compliance since January 2025 carries penalties up to 2% of global annual turnover—comparable to GDPR's harshest sanctions. Nearly half of financial institutions were unprepared at enforcement, with implementation costs approaching €100 million for large institutions.
Financial services compliance costs increased 60% since the financial crisis to over £206 billion globally annually. Traditional approaches allocate 30-40% of IT budgets to testing, yet over 80% remains manual. Non-compliance costs average £15 million annually—2.71 times higher than proper compliance investment.
Leading financial institutions achieve 1,000%+ deployment velocity improvements while strengthening security posture and reducing compliance costs 60-80%. Goldman Sachs deploys multiple times daily with complete audit compliance. Ally Financial eliminated 90% of outages saving £300,000 annually.
Join leading financial institutions achieving operational resilience, DORA compliance, and competitive advantage through modern DevSecOps practices. Start with a comprehensive assessment tailored to financial services regulatory requirements.
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