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COMPLYAN FOR FINTECH & BFSI

Turn financial compliance into a competitive advantage.

Complyan for Fintech

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Fintech & BFSI | COMPLYAN

Financial institutions, fintechs, and BFSI organizations across the Middle East and Africa operate in one of the most heavily regulated environments in the world. With customer data at stake and regulators raising the bar, your compliance program cannot afford to be fragmented or reactive.

Digital transformation is accelerating across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, and beyond. But with innovation comes risk. Compliance and CISO teams are navigating a complex web of local, regional, and international regulations — often with limited resources and disconnected tools.

Many institutions still rely on fragmented systems, manual evidence collection, and spreadsheet-driven risk management that slows down audits, increases operational burden, and creates dangerous compliance blind spots.

Complyan gives banks, fintechs, insurance providers, and payment institutions a single, unified GRC platform — purpose-built for the MEA region and the regulatory landscape they actually operate in.

Move beyond periodic audits. Complyan delivers continuous control monitoring, AI-assisted evidence collection, and real-time visibility across every framework, every audit cycle, and every jurisdiction your organization operates in.

The Problem

Key Challenges in Fintech & BFSI Compliance

Financial institutions face structural challenges that traditional GRC approaches cannot solve.

01

Expanding Regulatory Pressure

The number of frameworks and regulatory expectations continues to grow across jurisdictions. Teams must simultaneously track SAMA, CBUAE, UAE IA, PCI DSS, and global standards — all with overlapping control sets and different audit cycles.

02

Manual and Fragmented Compliance Processes

Compliance teams spend significant time on evidence collection, spreadsheet tracking, and audit preparation across siloed departments — leading to inefficiencies, version conflicts, and a higher risk of human error.

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Lack of Continuous Visibility

Most legacy GRC systems provide point-in-time snapshots rather than real-time control assurance. There is no live view of overall cybersecurity posture and compliance gaps between audit cycles.

04

Increasing Third-Party and Cyber Risk

Fintech ecosystems rely heavily on payment processors, cloud providers, API partners, and technology vendors — significantly increasing operational and compliance risk surfaces that regulators now actively scrutinize.

Unified Regulatory Intelligence

One Platform. Every Framework.

Stop managing a dozen spreadsheets for a dozen frameworks. Enter evidence once and satisfy multiple regulators.

Banking & Fintech Regulations
SAMA CBUAE CBB (Bahrain) CBN (Nigeria) CBG (Ghana) PCI DSS v4 SWIFT CSP Dubai ISR
GCC & Regional Cybersecurity
UAE IA NESA Qatar NIA NCA-ECC (KSA) ADHICS ADGM
Global Standards
ISO 27001:2022 NIST CSF GDPR SOC 2 ISO 22301 CIS Controls
Compliance Overview
ISO 27001:2022
SAMA
All
74%
Compliance
61%
Evidence
88%
Tests
53%
Policies
Framework Status
SAMA
82% On Track
PCI DSS v4
88% On Track
UAE IA
61% In Progress
ISO 27001
74% In Progress
Recent Activity
SAMA control 3.2.4 evidence uploaded 2h ago
PCI DSS vendor questionnaire due soon 5h ago
UAE IA audit scheduled — 14 days 1d ago
Platform in Action

Built for the Complexity of Financial Services

Live compliance visibility and third-party risk insight, from your first framework to your next regulatory inspection.

Compliance Dashboard
Compliance Dashboard: full compliance, implementation status, residual risk, and maturity at a glance
Supplier Security Profile
Supplier Security Profile: safeguard scores across access, encryption, endpoint security, and fourth-party risk
Industry Benchmark 80% faster audit readiness with continuous compliance
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We operate across multiple jurisdictions and were managing SAMA, UAE IA, and PCI DSS requirements on three separate systems. Complyan brought everything into one place. Our compliance team now spends time on actual risk decisions instead of chasing evidence, and our regulators have noticed the difference in how prepared we come to every review.

Head of Compliance Regional Retail Bank, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Why Leading Fintechs Choose Complyan

Platform Capabilities for Financial Services

Always Audit-Ready Continuous evidence collection and audit trail management means you are always prepared for regulatory inspections — not just at audit time.
Multi-Framework Mapping One control set mapped across SAMA, UAE IA, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, and NIST CSF simultaneously — with no duplication of effort.
AI-Driven Evidence Collection Automatically collect audit evidence across integrated systems, eliminating manual screenshots and drastically reducing audit preparation time.
Real-Time Risk Dashboards Give CISOs, CFOs, and Compliance Officers live visibility into compliance status and risk exposure across the entire organization.
Vendor Risk Management Assess and continuously monitor payment processors, cloud providers, and API partners using structured questionnaires and automated risk scoring.
Policy and Control Management Create, publish, and manage financial security policies with automated version control, staff acknowledgment tracking, and full audit trails.
Role-Based Accountability Assign compliance task ownership across business units and departments. Track completion and automatically escalate overdue items to management.
Compliance Reporting Board-ready reports and real-time dashboards for senior stakeholders. Export complete evidence packs for regulatory submissions and external auditors.
Measurable Outcomes

What You Can Expect

Complyan delivers measurable transformation for financial institutions managing complex regulatory environments across the MEA region.

  • Reduce compliance effort by up to 70% by automating control tracking and evidence collection
  • Achieve full regulatory audit readiness in weeks, not months, through continuous evidence management
  • Unified dashboard across all departments, frameworks, and regulatory bodies in one live platform
  • Proactively identify financial data risks before they escalate into costly incidents or regulatory penalties
  • Clear, executive-ready reports that demonstrate your compliance posture to leadership and regulators
  • Complete view of third-party risk across your entire technology and supply chain ecosystem
  • Assign compliance task ownership across business units with automated escalation for overdue items
  • Multi-framework support to satisfy SAMA, CBUAE, UAE IA, PCI DSS, and global standards simultaneously

Accelerate your journey for cybersecurity compliance today!