Insights

Ideas and analysis on the themes reshaping the market

Explore FORFIRM perspectives on AI, compliance, cybersecurity, digital transformation and financial services.

Filters

CEO Insights

Featured practices

Compliance

PCI DSS Compliance

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is the global security standard defined by the PCI Security Standards Council (founded by Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover and JCB) to protect cardholder data (CHD) and sensitive authentication data (SAD) wherever they are stored, processed or transmitted.

Explore

IT & Digital

Cybersecurity Resilience: Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Testing

Vulnerability Assessment (VA) and Penetration Testing (PT) is the global security methodology designed to identify, evaluate, and safely exploit vulnerabilities across IT infrastructures, networks, and applications, regardless of where they are deployed, managed, or hosted.

Explore

Financial Services

T+1 Settlement: Transition Process

The coordinated migration to the T+1 settlement cycle, mandated for October 11, 2027, across Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the European Union, represents a profound paradigm shift that compresses the core post-trade operational window from 48 to 24 hours.

Explore

Financial Services

Regulatory Reporting: Managed Services

The continuous evolution of supervisory standards mandated by ESMA and FINMA presents a complex operational challenge for Swiss financial institutions, requiring simultaneous alignment across four distinct reporting frameworks: EMIR (including REFIT), FinfraG, MiFIR/MiFID, and CRS.

Explore

IT & Digital

IT Outsourcing: Integrated Managed Services

An integrated IT Outsourcing model combining managed infrastructure, cybersecurity, AI Governance, compliance and specialist expertise, enabling companies to access advanced services without a dedicated in-house IT structure, reducing IT costs by up to 30%.

Explore

IT & Digital

IT Excellence Competence Center

Elite IT staffing with Swiss accountability: only 0.33% pass our selection. Middle, Senior and Expert profiles, with a dedicated Client Manager and continuous technical training.

Explore

Cybersecurity

One Identity: IAM as a Business Control

Build IAM as a business control, not another IT tool. One Identity provides the governance fabric. FORFIRM turns it into measurable risk reduction, audit evidence and operational resilience.

Explore

Cybersecurity

One Identity: Run Identity Operations as a Governed Service

FORFIRM combines specialist One Identity skills, ITIL-aligned governance and measurable service levels to improve resilience, control and delivery velocity. SLA-driven. Remote or on-premise.

Explore

HR & Digital

Recruit. Engage. Grow.

Swiss talent management suite: three integrated products (PERFORMANCE, DIGITAL HUMAN HR, FORTEAM), available separately. Cloud or On-premise, Microsoft native, AI native.

Explore

Compliance

RECO: Regulatory & Compliance Tool

From fragmented regulatory control to regulatory resilience. FORFIRM's proprietary platform covers the full reporting lifecycle - pre-submission validation, exception management, internal audit support and multi-regulation coverage (EMIR, FinfraG, SFTR, MiFID II/MiFIR and more).

Explore

Financial Services

Reshaping Swiss Payments

euroSIC, LSV+/BDD, ISO 20022, PSD3/PSR and FINMA 2023/1: one transformation, one clear path forward. FORFIRM guides Swiss banks through the 2026-2028 payment infrastructure transition with regulatory expertise, data governance and IT architecture.

Explore

Financial Services

Middle & Back Office Competence Center

Specialist operational capacity, governed by SLA and ready to scale. Banking Operations as a Service: Middle Office (Product Control, Trade Support, Collateral, Performance) and Back Office (Settlement, Reconciliation, Corporate Actions, Fund Accounting, Custody). Remote or On-Premise.

Explore

Strategy

AI-Enabled SME Operating Model

FORFIRM supports SMEs in building an AI-enabled operating model that combines people, processes, technology and governance - knowledge access, administrative automation, operational standardization and scalable growth without proportional headcount increases.

Explore

Strategy

AI Convergence Governance

Business, IT, Data, People. One objective. No overlap. FORFIRM's AI Convergence Governance framework closes the execution gap between AI experimentation and enterprise scale - risk-tiered Agentic AI, human-in-the-loop controls, FINMA/DORA/EU AI Act alignment.

Explore

Featured insights

Latest perspectives

IT & Digital

Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing as a regulatory baseline

Financial Services

Digital Franc and Digital Euro: the wholesale settlement layer is already moving

Financial Services

FinMIA / FMIA Reporting: Data Quality, Governance and Evidence for Swiss Reporting Obligations

Request

Find out how we can support you

Complete our request for proposal. Tell us your goals, constraints and expected results: we'll come back with a concrete path forward.

Submit Request

Events

Conversations, webcasts and events on the themes shaping transformation

Past Events

FORFIRM AI Talks 2026

Artificial Intelligence Meets Strategic Goals

A discussion dedicated to Gen AI beyond the hype: Business Impact, AI Act, Cybersecurity, Governance, Real Cases and Concrete Adoption in Organizations.

The difference between AI Projects that stay experiments and those that reach production is not only the Technology Model, but the order in which Business Case, Governance, Architecture, Data and Change Management are built.

FORFIRM

AI Talks: Artificial Intelligence Meets Strategic Goals.

Gen AI AdoptionAI Act & CybersecurityGovernance by DesignReal Use CasesHuman in the LoopChange ManagementROI & Scalability

Discover the Recap Request the Slides

Upcoming events

Register for upcoming FORFIRM events and webcasts

New events are coming soon. Subscribe to receive invitations and never miss an opportunity to join the conversation.

Explore Events

Cookies & Privacy

Ideas and analysis on the themes reshaping the market

Featured practices

PCI DSS Compliance

Cybersecurity Resilience: Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Testing

T+1 Settlement: Transition Process

Regulatory Reporting: Managed Services

IT Outsourcing: Integrated Managed Services

IT Excellence Competence Center

One Identity: IAM as a Business Control

One Identity: Run Identity Operations as a Governed Service

Recruit. Engage. Grow.

RECO: Regulatory & Compliance Tool

Reshaping Swiss Payments

Middle & Back Office Competence Center

AI-Enabled SME Operating Model

AI Convergence Governance

Latest perspectives

Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing as a regulatory baseline

Digital Franc and Digital Euro: the wholesale settlement layer is already moving

Financial Institutions: why most AI pilots never reach the P&L

Regulatory Reporting: when "report once" becomes the only sustainable model

T+1 Settlement: the back office has half the time. Is it ready?

AI Act readiness: can your organization evidence how AI is governed?

PCI DSS v4.0: from gap analysis to sustainable control discipline

FinMIA / FMIA Reporting: Data Quality, Governance and Evidence for Swiss Reporting Obligations

Find out how we can support you

Conversations, webcasts and events on the themes shaping transformation

FORFIRM AI Talks 2026

Register for upcoming FORFIRM events and webcasts