IT for firms the regulator is watching.
When you are FCA-regulated, an outage can become a regulatory event. A disruption to a client-facing service is reportable, and the client data you hold turns a bad day into a breach. KAVIX provides the white-glove IT support that keeps investment, wealth and asset managers resilient, audit-ready, and secure, across Canary Wharf, the City, and the rest of London.
You hold client money, client positions, and client data, under the eye of a regulator that expects you to keep running through disruption and prove that you can. Your IT has to meet that bar every day, and hold it on the day someone checks.
An outage that pushes an important business service beyond your impact tolerance is the kind of disruption the operational resilience rules are written about, and the kind your board has to answer for.
Firms that authorise payments and instruct transfers are a prime target for business email compromise and counterparty impersonation. One convincing email to the wrong desk can move real money before anyone notices.
Positions, valuations, and personal financial records sit across Microsoft 365 and your line-of-business systems. A ransomware hit or a mislaid laptop turns that into an ICO notification and a call to every client affected.
Since March 2025, the FCA and PRA operational resilience regime has applied in full. Firms must identify their important business services, set the maximum disruption they can tolerate, and show they can stay within it through a severe but plausible event. Your IT is where most of that is won or lost.
Source: FCA Policy Statement PS21/3 and Bank of England / PRA Supervisory Statement SS1/21, Building operational resilience.
KAVIX runs the IT behind your regulated business so the parts a regulator cares about stay up and stay documented. Your line-of-business systems, your Microsoft 365, and the devices your team works from sit under one managed setup, watched around the clock.
We treat evidence as part of the job. Access is controlled, activity is logged, and recovery is tested, so when a regulator, an auditor or an institutional client asks how you would cope with disruption, the answer is already written down.
KAVIX does not sell security as an upgrade. Every financial services client gets the full package, from the helpdesk your team calls mid-trade to the resilience evidence your compliance function relies on, plus a quarterly review so nothing drifts between audits.
The pressures differ by firm. We run dedicated practices for the parts of the sector with the sharpest requirements.
Trading-hours uptime, protection for your strategy and models, and allocator-ready security.
The office and the family secured together, with discretion and personal digital protection.
Deal and data-room confidentiality, cyber due diligence, and portfolio security oversight.
Cloud-first security that keeps up with deal flow, and defence against founder impersonation.
A mid-sized wealth manager is preparing for an operational resilience review. A member of the operations team opens what looks like a custodian statement, and by morning the file server is encrypted and the portfolio system is unreachable.
Client valuations are due, an institutional client is mid-onboarding, and the review is a fortnight away. The firm now has to explain an incident it cannot fully reconstruct, with no clean record of how it responded.
With EDR stopping the attack at the first machine, backups that restore the systems in hours, and monitoring that logs every step of the response, the same event becomes a documented incident the firm can walk its regulator through. What decides which version you get is what was in place before the email landed.
Based in a financial district? See our dedicated pages for Canary Wharf and the City of London.
Start with a short call, or go straight to a full review. Both begin with a conversation about how your firm runs and what you answer to.
A short call to talk through how your firm operates, where the resilience and security gaps sit, and whether KAVIX is the right fit. No obligation and no jargon.
Book a Discovery CallA scoped, paid engagement. We review your systems, your security, and your resilience evidence in depth, then hand you a written report and a prioritised action plan that is yours to keep, whether or not you go on to work with us.
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