Finance & Insurance
Certification for firms already audited from every direction
Information security, continuity and service quality certification for banks, insurers, funds and fintechs — an independent assessment against a published standard, kept separate from your own assurance functions and from your supervisor's work.
Explore the controls
The operational pressures the audit is read against
Your auditor works from the pressures your teams already carry, not from a blank template.
Regulatory focus on operational resilience
Supervisors expect mapped critical services, impact tolerances and tested recovery.
Data security as license to operate
Client and market data breaches carry regulatory, financial and reputational consequence.
Third-party and outsourcing risk
Critical functions run on vendors that regulators expect you to control.
Audit fatigue
Internal audit, external audit, regulators and clients all sample the same controls.
Field view
Walk the floor. Meet the evidence.
Scroll from the towers to the resilience room. Each stop is somewhere an auditor asks a regulated firm to produce the record behind a control.
Stop 01 / 04
One firm, regulated everywhere
Regulators, clients and internal audit all sample the same controls. A certification audit is one more independent pass over them — separate from the firm, and separate from the decision that follows it.
Standards that matter in finance & insurance
Recommended by relevance to the sector's risk profile and customer requirements.
Certification services for this sector
Certification to ISO 27001, 22301, 9001, 20000-1 and 45003
Stage 1, Stage 2 and an independent certification decision covering the entities, services and locations inside your scope of certification.
Combined audits across security, continuity and quality
One audit programme over the standards you hold, so the clauses they share are examined once and a business area receives one set of findings rather than several.
Multi-entity sampling and transfer
Group functions audited every cycle plus a rotating sample of entities and locations where the system is genuinely common, and transfer of an active accredited certificate without restarting your cycle.
Pre-assessment, surveillance and training
An optional pre-assessment that reports gaps without prescribing fixes, surveillance in Years 1 and 2, recertification in Year 3, and public training courses.
How the audit runs here
Scope and duration set before the visit
Effective headcount including outsourced and offshore staff whose work falls inside scope, the entities and services covered and the risk category fix audit time by formula, not by negotiation.
Separate from your assurance functions
Internal audit output, RCSAs and committee minutes are read as evidence and tested for whether they work. CORE does not perform internal audit for the firms it certifies, and a certificate is not a statement of regulatory compliance.
Evidence sampled through a business service
An important business service and an outsourced arrangement are followed end to end: mapping, impact tolerance, the last test, the vendor monitoring record and what an incident actually triggered.
Findings graded, decision separated
A finding in one entity is assessed for whether it is local or group-wide. The certification decision is taken by a reviewer outside the audit team.
Sector evidence
Financial services examples will appear here only where a certified organization has approved publication in writing. CORE does not publish client names, entity details or audit findings without that consent.
Finance & Insurance questions, answered straight
Ready to certify your finance & insurance operation?
Tell us the standards, scope, headcount and sites. You will get a clear scope statement, an audit duration set by the accreditation body's formula, and a fixed quotation.