Banking & Financial Services

The sector we know best — because it's the one we've worked in longest.

Fraud, payment security, and regulatory pressure define risk in African banking. We've spent over a decade in this sector specifically — through banking security testing, fraud investigation, and the Banking & ICT Summit — before working with anyone else.

Certified Fraud Examiners on staff Banking & ICT Summit — 6 editions convened
10+ yrs
Focused engagement with banks and financial institutions specifically
What Keeps Banking Leadership Up

The risks we're built to address.

Fraud & Internal Abuse

Employee embezzlement, kickback schemes, and financial statement manipulation that internal controls alone don't catch.

Payment & Channel Security

Internet and mobile banking channels, ATM and card systems — each a distinct attack surface with distinct testing needs.

Regulatory Exposure

PCI DSS obligations and evolving regional banking regulation, with real consequences for non-compliance.

Board-Level Accountability

Boards and regulators expect a defensible answer about cyber risk posture — not reassurance.

Convening the Sector

Six editions of the Banking & ICT Summit, and counting.

We've brought together East Africa's banking and ICT leadership since the summit's inception — not as a marketing event, but as an ongoing forum for the risks this sector actually faces.

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6th
Edition of the Banking & ICT Summit
CFE
Certified Fraud Examiners on staff
10+
Years focused on banking & financial services
Regulatory Fluency

We speak the language your auditors and regulators use.

PCI DSS — Compliance & Implementation Security EMV, Chip & PIN — Payment Security Standards IT Governance — Benchmarked to Regional Practice Anti-Money Laundering — Investigation & Training
Case Study

A representative banking-sector engagement.

Regional Bank Mobile Banking Security Testing

Client details are withheld to protect confidentiality, in line with standard practice for banking-sector engagements. The pattern below reflects the general shape of this type of assessment.

Problem

A regional bank needed independent assurance on a mobile banking channel ahead of a regulatory review, without internal capacity to test it thoroughly.

Approach

Manual and automated testing of the mobile application and underlying transaction database, scoped around real fraud and misconfiguration risk.

Result

A prioritized findings report the client's IT and compliance teams could act on directly ahead of their review.

Note: figures and identifying details are intentionally omitted rather than fabricated. Ask us directly for reference conversations where permitted by client confidentiality.

Other Sectors

Where else our work applies.

In development

Government & Public Sector

Sovereignty, public trust, and evidentiary rigor for investigations. Our forensic equipment and methods are already used in law-enforcement-adjacent work.

In development

Critical Infrastructure & Telecommunications

Resilience and continuity for operationally critical systems — a natural extension of our assessment and assurance work.

In development

Healthcare, NGOs & Education

Availability, privacy, and capability-building — the latter connects directly to our Training Academy.

Start the Conversation

Bring us your payment security or fraud question first.

A 30-minute scoping call, specific to your institution's risk profile — no obligation, no sales pitch.