Cloud and Third-Party Risk Topic Stream

Guidance for U.S. banking on managing cloud and third-party risk, covering vendor due diligence, shared-responsibility gaps, operational metrics, and continuous assurance practices.

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Operational Risk and Control Baselines for Banking Technology in 2026
February 18, 2026

Operational Risk and Control Baselines. Clarifies control priorities, resilience requirements, and practical risk-reduction actions for banking leaders.

Continuous Assurance Current-State Assessment in Banking: Designing an Evidence Operating System
February 17, 2026

Continuous Assurance Current-State Assessment. Clarifies control priorities, resilience requirements, and practical risk-reduction actions for banking leaders.

Baseline Operational Metrics for IT in Banking (2026)
February 11, 2026

Executive scorecards and baseline metrics that prove resilience, productivity, and control effectiveness as banks move to modular, real-time, AI-enabled operations

Defining Integration Scope for Core Modernization: Boundary Decisions That Reduce Risk
February 11, 2026

Treating integration as a governed scope boundary that protects resilience, control integrity, and value capture

Third-Party Risk and Controls Baselining for Bank Transformation
February 9, 2026

How executives set an exam-ready third-party risk baseline that supports operational resilience, scales change safely, and preserves accountability across the supplier lifecycle

Defining Application Portfolio Scope in Banking
February 7, 2026

Architecture and technology boundary scoping that makes modernization measurable, governable, and comparable over time

Cybersecurity Posture Baseline 2026: Defining “Normal” Readiness for Financial Services Transformation
February 5, 2026

How leaders establish an objective security starting point that withstands DORA-era scrutiny and supports scaled change

Bank Third-Party Risk Management Baseline: Vendor Tiering by Criticality and Control Evidence
February 5, 2026

Bank third-party risk management baseline guidance for 2026, including vendor tiering by criticality, control evidence expectations, supervisory alignment, and measurable oversight workflows.

Defining Third-Party Scope and Vendor Governance in Banking for 2026
February 2, 2026

How executives set risk and control boundaries when regulators expect third parties to be governed as extensions of the bank

Interagency TPRM Expectations: Feasibility Tests for Third-Party and Fintech Dependency
January 30, 2026

Interagency TPRM Expectations: Feasibility. Outlines sequencing choices, dependency trade-offs, and implementation checkpoints that improve delivery confidence.

Platform Prerequisites for Sequenced Digital Channel Modernization
January 30, 2026

Platform Prerequisites for Sequenced Digital. Clarifies control priorities, resilience requirements, and practical risk-reduction actions for banking leaders.

Outsourcing Risk Management as a Feasibility Test for Banking Technology Strategy
January 29, 2026

Outsourcing Risk Management as a Feasibility. Clarifies control priorities, resilience requirements, and practical risk-reduction actions for banking leaders.

Compliance Risk Management for Fintech Partnerships as an Execution Constraint
January 29, 2026

Compliance Risk Management for Fintech. Clarifies control priorities, resilience requirements, and practical risk-reduction actions for banking leaders.

Cloud Vendor Risk Assessment as a Feasibility Test for Third-Party Dependency
January 27, 2026

Cloud Vendor Risk Assessment as a Feasibility. Clarifies control priorities, resilience requirements, and practical risk-reduction actions for banking leaders.

Integration Strategy for Core Banking Modernization
January 26, 2026

Integration Strategy for Core Banking. Clarifies control priorities, resilience requirements, and practical risk-reduction actions for banking leaders.

Control Frameworks for Cloud Adoption as Strategic Sequencing Gates in Banking
January 26, 2026

Control Frameworks for Cloud Adoption. Clarifies control priorities, resilience requirements, and practical risk-reduction actions for banking leaders.

Interagency Third-Party Risk Management Guidance and Strategic Feasibility
January 23, 2026

Interagency Third-Party Risk Management. Clarifies control priorities, resilience requirements, and practical risk-reduction actions for banking leaders.

Managing Fintech Partnerships Without Expanding Compliance Exposure
January 22, 2026

Managing Fintech Partnerships. Clarifies control priorities, resilience requirements, and practical risk-reduction actions for banking leaders.

Vendor Oversight Operating Models That Make or Break Fintech Partnerships
January 22, 2026

Vendor Oversight Operating Models That Make. Defines capability gaps, readiness signals, and concrete actions that turn strategy into executable change.

Cloud Vendor Due Diligence for Banks as an Execution Risk Gate
January 21, 2026

Cloud Vendor Due Diligence for Banks as an. Clarifies control priorities, resilience requirements, and practical risk-reduction actions for banking leaders.