Financial Services
Sell to financial-services enterprises with confidence.
Banks, insurers, and fintechs run some of the most rigorous vendor diligence there is — across overlapping regulatory frameworks. ShipReady helps a financial-services startup prove readiness for that scrutiny with evidence from its own systems, not assertions.
The frameworks your buyers expect
ShipReady helps you assess readiness, map controls, and collect evidence across these frameworks — one control, one piece of evidence, many mappings. It is readiness, not certification: nothing here provides an audit opinion or a guarantee of compliance.
One organization, measured and proven
Compliance readiness is only half of what a financial-services buyer evaluates. The same ShipReady Score also measures AI Readiness and Engineering Excellence — the SDLC, delivery reliability, dependency and security posture — so you can show, with evidence, the technology organization behind it, not just a policy binder.
Overlapping frameworks, one evidence trail
A bank's vendor review rarely asks about one framework. A SOC 2 report covers security, SOC 1 covers controls that touch the customer's financial reporting, PCI DSS applies if cardholder data passes through you, and an EU customer may ask how you support its DORA obligations. Answering each one from a separate spreadsheet is how evidence drifts out of date.
ShipReady maps these frameworks onto one canonical control model. A single piece of evidence counts toward every requirement it satisfies, and readiness is derived only from evidence your team has accepted. A control nobody has evidenced yet is shown as not verified, never as a pass.
IT general controls are where the questions start
Financial-services buyers lean on IT general controls before they trust anything else: who can reach production, how changes are approved and deployed, how systems are built, and how operations recover when a job or a backup fails. When those controls are weak, every number that depends on them is in doubt.
Most ITGC evidence already lives in your engineering systems: pull-request reviews, deployment history, access configuration, and cloud settings. ShipReady reads it from the connectors you enable and shows which controls are evidenced, which are named gaps, and which have not been checked.
Preparing for a bank's vendor review
Financial-services reviews are long and arrive in rounds: a questionnaire, a request for reports, follow-up questions on access and change management, and sometimes an on-site or virtual walkthrough. The teams that move fastest are the ones that can answer each round from the same evidence instead of rebuilding it every time.
Connect source control and your cloud accounts, review the evidence ShipReady collects, and work the named gaps before the reviewer sees them. When the questions come, share restricted material through an access request you approve and be explicit about anything still not verified. Regulated buyers expect gaps; what they do not accept is a gap they discover on their own.
Frequently asked questions
- Does ShipReady issue a SOC 2 or SOC 1 report?
- No. Those reports are issued by an independent CPA firm after an examination. ShipReady helps you assess readiness and collect evidence beforehand. It is readiness, not certification, and nothing here is an audit opinion.
- What is the difference between SOC 1 and SOC 2?
- SOC 1 covers controls relevant to a customer's financial reporting. SOC 2 covers controls against the Trust Services Criteria, such as security and availability. Financial-services buyers often ask for both.
- Is DORA on this page the delivery metrics or the regulation?
- The regulation: the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act for financial entities and the technology providers that serve them. The DORA delivery metrics, such as deployment frequency and change failure rate, are a separate idea with the same acronym.
- Can one piece of evidence count toward several frameworks?
- Yes. Frameworks are mapped onto one canonical control model, so evidence accepted for a control counts toward each framework requirement that control maps to.
- What does a missing control look like?
- A control without evidence reads not verified, and a control whose evidence was rejected reads as a named gap. Neither is ever shown as a pass to make the number look better.
- Which frameworks does this page cover?
- SOC 2, SOC 1, SOX, GLBA, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, and DORA. They are mapped onto one canonical control model, so you collect evidence once and see how far it carries across each framework.
- Does ShipReady replace our auditor or assessor?
- No. An independent auditor or assessor still forms the opinion. ShipReady helps you arrive with organized evidence and an honest list of what is done, what is a named gap, and what has not been checked.