Banking · Transition
Expanding core infrastructure at a retail bank without a maintenance window
The migration was completed during live trading with no customer-facing impact.
Industries
Technology change in environments where failure is expensive.
Banks, insurers and financial infrastructure providers operate under constraints most technology advice ignores. Our specialists have worked inside them.
Why sector experience matters
Seven constraints that change how technology work has to be done.
None of these is unique to financial services. What is unusual is carrying all seven at once, on systems customers and other institutions depend on every minute of the day.
01
Complexity
Estates built over decades, where the documentation describes the design rather than the system.
02
Regulation
Change is scrutinised by supervisors as well as by the business, and the evidence matters as much as the outcome.
03
Legacy integration
New platforms have to coexist with the systems they are replacing — often for longer than planned.
04
Operational risk
A failed change is an incident, a customer-harm event and potentially a regulatory notification.
05
Availability
Payment, trading and customer channels have tolerance for disruption measured in minutes, not days.
06
Change governance
CABs, risk sign-off and release controls exist for good reasons, and delivery has to work with them.
07
Stakeholders
Business, technology, risk, operations, vendors and the regulator — each with a legitimate veto.
01
Banking
Retail and corporate banking estates where core platforms, payment rails and customer channels are tightly coupled, change windows are narrow and customer-facing availability is visible immediately.
- Core banking platforms
- Payments and channel estates
- Infrastructure and data-centre change
02
Insurance
Life and general insurers running long-lived policy administration and claims platforms, with prudential reporting obligations and decades of product rules embedded in the systems.
- Policy administration
- Claims platforms
- Prudential and regulatory reporting
Insurance · Resilience
Turning a documented recovery plan into a tested one
Recovery time was substantially reduced and demonstrated in a live test under regulator observation.
03
Financial infrastructure
Payment services, pensions administration and asset management platforms — the systems other institutions depend on, where an outage propagates beyond the firm that suffers it.
- Payment processing
- Pension scheme administration
- Portfolio, custody and reporting
Financial services · Transform
Migrating a regulated estate to the cloud in controlled waves
The estate was migrated with regulatory approval and without unplanned outages during the transition.
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Regulatory technology
Obligations that arrive as engineering work: operational resilience, ICT risk, outsourcing and third-party oversight, and the evidence a supervisor expects to see behind each control.
- Operational resilience (DORA)
- ICT risk and third-party oversight
- Control evidence and remediation
Conjora does not provide legal or regulatory advice. We do the technology and delivery work that regulatory obligations create, alongside your risk and compliance functions. See operational resilience.
Insurance · Resilience
Solvency II remediation that held at the follow-up audit
The remediation achieved clean sign-off at the follow-up audit.
Case studies describe work led by Conjora specialists, including in roles held before or alongside Conjora. They are not presented as the delivery record of Conjora Limited. Clients are not named, and details that could identify them have been removed.
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