IT Advisory for Financial Services & Banking
Financial services providers and banks across DACH face multiple compliance pressures in 2026: BaFin MaRisk and VAIT/BAIT in Germany, DORA as the EU-wide Digital Operational Resilience Act, FINMA cloud-outsourcing obligations in Switzerland. danad GmbH has delivered Citrix replacements with Azure Virtual Desktop, Microsoft Defender for Identity implementations and SOC readiness programmes at banking clients. Typical engagements: Azure migration with BaFin-compliant architecture and outsourcing contracts, Azure Virtual Desktop for trader workplaces (high performance, low latency, compliance logging), Microsoft Sentinel with MITRE ATT&CK detection for banking trojans and insider threats, Microsoft 365 Copilot rollouts with GDPR-compliant data residency in Azure Switzerland Regions, DORA compliance programmes with third-party risk management.
Typical pain points
- • BaFin MaRisk and DORA require comprehensive operational resilience evidence
- • Cloud outsourcing contracts need regulatory review — missing standards
- • Banking trojans and APTs require detection capabilities beyond standard AV
- • Trader workplaces need high performance and compliance logging simultaneously
- • M&A in finance: PE-driven consolidation requires IT carve-outs under regulatory law