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Finance & Capital: why value documentation has become a financing issue
Financial organisations face increasing demands to document their governance and data. Analysis of regulatory trends and value issues for Finance & Capital players in Europe.
The DORA regulation (Digital Operational Resilience Act), in force since January 2025, requires European financial institutions to comprehensively document their digital operational resilience. For the first time, the ability to defend the robustness of an information system has become a legal condition of operation.
4,1 Tn EUR
assets managed by PE funds in Europe (Preqin 2024)
47 Mrd EUR
FinTech investment Europe 2023 (KPMG Pulse)
68%
of financial M&A deals blocked by data governance gaps (PwC 2024)
Regulatory convergence as a value catalyst
Basel IV, DORA, revised PSD2 and the AI Act converge on the same requirement: traceability of decisions, systems and data. This convergence creates an opportunity for organisations that anticipate — those who document their governance today will have a defensible asset tomorrow.
What CIFSO 5000 Certification brings to the financial sector
- Capital: documentation of own financial assets, rights and off-balance-sheet commitments
- Integrity: assessment of data governance, DORA/NIS2 compliance and system dependencies
- Finance: profitability metrics, recurrence and soundness of the business model
- Security: cyber attack resistance, business continuity plan and resilience testing
- Organisation: genuine transferability, key person dependencies and decision governance
This article was written with the assistance of artificial intelligence and reviewed under Aegryn editorial responsibility. In accordance with Article 50 of the EU AI Act, we assume editorial responsibility for this content.
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