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Routing, settlement and PSP relationships create trust and evidence requirements.
Routing, settlement, PSP relationships and scheme requirements create a dense web of trust obligations. Your ISMS has to show how transaction reliability and data protection are controlled in practice.
For Payments teams, these are the controls auditors and enterprise buyers probe hardest - and where weak evidence shows up first.
Already PCI DSS? You do not rebuild evidence twice.
ISO 27001 and PCI DSS overlap heavily - access reviews, change management, cryptographic controls, incident logging. A readiness review scopes which of your existing PCI evidence carries straight over to ISO 27001 Annex A, and where the genuine ISO-specific gaps are (management review, internal audit, risk register). Card scheme programmes and sponsor-bank onboarding audits increasingly name ISO 27001 alongside PCI - we scope the ISMS to answer both on one evidence base.
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Start with a 2-day Mini Gap Review.
Scoped and priced on a short call. We hand back your top Stage 1 blockers and the single next step that matters most.
We tell you what will block ISO 27001 certification before the certification body does.
Learn more →3-6 weeksReadiness finds the blockers. The Remediation Sprint helps remove them.
Learn more →1-2 weeksWe organise your ISO 27001 evidence so your team can show the right proof, in the right order.
Learn more →From the blog
ISO 27001 and financial regulation overlap heavily, but they are not the same thing. Mapping one to the other saves duplicated work and closes gaps regulators actually care about.
Read →Fintech & Payments GRCScoping an ISMS for a PSP is harder than it looks. Drawing the boundary around settlement, routing, KYC, and sponsor bank connections without going too broad or too narrow is where most firms stumble.
Read →Fintech & Payments GRCPCI DSS and ISO 27001 share meaningful common ground in access control, change management, and incident logging - but the gaps are real and specific. Here is the honest map.
Read →Self-check
Nine yes-no questions that cut to where ISO 27001 and DORA readiness usually holds up - or falls apart - for Payments teams.
Where you go next depends on what Payments teams are being asked to prove. Seven focused paths, one connected programme:
Pass the audit. We find what blocks Stage 1 before the certification body does.
ISO 27001 for PaymentsGet regulator-ready. Close the gap between ISO 27001 and what the regulator now requires.
DORA for PaymentsScope first. Most of the market sells you the answer before asking the question.
NIS2 for PaymentsProve your data handling. ISO 27701 is standalone now - no ISMS required.
GDPR & Privacy for PaymentsGovern the model. Certifiable today - and your buyers' vendors already are.
ISO 42001 / AI Governance for PaymentsThe US buyer's ask. Not certifiable, not a federal requirement - here is what actually binds you.
NIST CSF 2.0 for PaymentsAnswer the SOC 2 ask. Audit-ready for the CPA's examination - not scrambling when it arrives.
SOC 2 for PaymentsUnderstand your scope, close the gaps and prepare the SSP and evidence your defense supply-chain obligations require.
CMMC & NIST SP 800-171 for PaymentsOther industries
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