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Rethinking Software Factory Governance in Regulated Finance

Daniel Liszka
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In regulated finance, compliance has always been part of the job. But in recent years, the demands have grown rapidly.

New regulations like the Cyber Resilience Act, DORA, and emerging AI-related requirements continue to raise the bar. At the same time, software delivery has evolved. It’s faster, more distributed, and increasingly built on open source, automation, and AI.

In this environment, traditional compliance processes (checklists, spreadsheets, email approvals), start to break down. Not because they are wrong, but because they no longer scale.

That’s why fintech teams and banks choose Chainloop. It helps them automate compliance, connect fragmented DevSecOps tools, and capture signed, verifiable evidence for every release, so they can move faster without losing control.

Enter Chainloop: Automated SDLC Governance

Chainloop helps financial institutions bridge the gap between compliance and delivery. It doesn’t replace your policies, it automates and enforces them. It doesn’t run on spreadsheets, it runs on attestations, policies as code, and signed evidence.

Here’s how it works.

Let’s say your policy says: “Every container image must have a signed SBOM and pass a vulnerability scan with no criticals.”

With Chainloop:

  • That requirement becomes a contract, enforced across your CI/CD pipelines.
  • Compliance and security teams can use our curated policy catalog or write their own. We maintain a growing library of tested, up-to-date policies for vulnerability management, SBOM quality, signature validation, and more, designed to work with tools like BlackDuck, Trivy, GitHub, and others.
  • Developers receive clear, actionable feedback during builds, directly in their dev environment.
  • The system collects the SBOM, scan results, signatures, and commit metadata—all signed, linked, and stored in your own cloud storage.
  • Missing or non-compliant evidence results in a flagged or interrupted release, depending on your organization’s settings.
Chainloop Policies

No chasing reports. No waiting on emails. No, holding the release for three days while someone assembles a PDF. Now multiply that across every pipeline, every product, every week. That’s the value.

Why Banks Choose Chainloop

Chainloop brings secure, automated, and verifiable SDLC governance to financial institutions. It’s built to eliminate friction between Dev, Sec, Ops, and compliance, without disrupting existing workflows.

Here’s what makes Chainloop a trusted choice:

  • Centralized Evidence Store
    Capture and link all SDLC artifacts (SBOMs, test results, VEX, scan reports, build metadata, signatures) in one secure vault (yours).
  • Real-Time Compliance Automation
    Define frameworks like CRA, SSDF, NIST, or your internal policies as reusable, version-controlled contracts. Enforce them automatically at every pipeline or release.
  • Open Source Core with Enterprise Options
    No vendor lock-in. Start with the open source version, or run the enterprise platform in your environment, hosted or fully on-prem.
  • Works Across Any Stack
    Any CI/CD. Any DevSecOps tool. Any PKI. Any Cloud.
  • 10× Faster Release Cycles
    Teams using Chainloop report reducing audit and security review time from weeks to hours, without sacrificing quality or traceability.
  • Proven in Highly Regulated Environments
    From financial services to government software factories, Chainloop is trusted where the stakes are high.

CRA, DORA, and Continuous Readiness

Regulations are changing the game for financial software teams. The expectations are clear: security and compliance must be continuous, not occasional.

In Europe, the CRA introduces strict new requirements:

  • September 2026: Mandatory vulnerability reporting
  • December 2027: Full CRA compliance or removal from the EU market

Yet according to the Linux Foundation’s research, most teams are still “unaware and uncertain” about their readiness.

At the same time, many organizations still depend on manual processes, spreadsheets, internal trackers, and disconnected tools, that were never built for continuous compliance.

Chainloop offers a better path.

Turn Compliance Into a Continuous, Scalable Process

Chainloop makes compliance readiness repeatable, automated, and built into your software delivery workflows, so you’re always ready, not scrambling at the last minute.

Start now and make compliance part of your daily software delivery process:

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