Faster, compliant delivery on regulated cloud with Upsun and IBM Cloud for Financial Services

We are continually enhancing our offering to support enterprises looking to modernize without the pain of modernization. 

We partnered with IBM to bring our highly flexible cloud application platform to the IBM Cloud Marketplace to give financial service organizations a cloud option that meets both workload and organizational requirements. By achieving IBM Cloud for Financial Services validation and ISO 27001 certification, we enable enterprises to deploy and scale their applications with greater agility while maintaining the highest levels of regulatory compliance. 

Financial institutions face increasing pressure to innovate quickly without compromising on compliance, data security, or operational resilience. They need a solution they can trust and rely on to help alleviate these pressures with a simplified and automated platform so they can focus on innovation. 

By combining the power of IBM’s trusted cloud infrastructure and compliance tooling with Upsun’s developer-centric flexibility, we open a new path for financial enterprises to innovate, build, and deploy without risk. 

IBM Cloud is a public cloud with controls, reference architectures, and tooling aligned to financial-sector obligations. It helps institutions move regulated workloads to the cloud with a clear compliance story while improving resilience and security. With Upsun, you can simply choose an IBM Cloud region and deploy, with no additional configuration required.

“Upsun, the cloud application platform, has been de-risked against Financial Services regulations and standards for continuous compliance and cyber resilience. This has been achieved on IBM's Cloud for Financial Services, leveraging IBM's Cloud Framework for Financial Services, IBM's OpenPages, and IBM's Security and Compliance Center.” - Christophe Sorré, France CTO for Financial Services & Consumer Industry, Distinguished Engineer, Executive IT Architect, IBM

Why financial enterprises value IBM Cloud

• Compliance by design. IBM Cloud ships with a control framework and service catalog mapped to laws and standards the sector cares about, from privacy to cyber to payments. PCI DSS, for example, is an industry security standard governed by the PCI Security Standards Council, not a law, but it is widely required by card brands.
• DORA alignment. In the EU, the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) entered into application on 17 January 2025, making operational resilience a board-level obligation for banks and insurers. IBM’s focus on multi-zone regions, reference architectures, and continuous testing directly supports DORA’s emphasis on ICT risk, incident reporting, and third-party oversight.
• Sovereignty options. In France, the SecNumCloud qualification defines strict criteria for “trusted” cloud, including governance and protection from extraterritorial access. While not universally mandatory for private firms today, it shapes enterprise choices and procurement.
• Data protection with strong cryptography. IBM Hyper Protect Crypto Services provides key management on FIPS 140-2 Level 4 certified hardware, the highest evaluated level for HSM tamper resistance, underpinning “keep your own keys” models.

What financial institutions tell us about Upsun

• Legacy system compatibility: Connect your legacy systems to modern apps using secure APIs. Works with Python, Java, PHP, Node.js, .NET, and frameworks like Django, Express, Symfony, and Strapi. No rewrites required.
• Enterprise-grade security: Security runs deep here with read-only systems, project isolation, and encryption, all work together. You get MFA, WAF, and 175+ Gbps DDoS protection right out of the box. Critical patches get deployed within 2 hours.
• Developer ecosystem: The Git-based platform provides developers with tools they actually want to use, resulting in less shadow IT and faster development.
• Real-time monitoring: Blackfire gives you real-time performance insights, pinpointing exactly where slowdowns may occur. Clone your production environment in seconds to debug issues; your live systems stay safe.
• Open Banking compliance: API security and compliance controls handle PSD2/PSD3 requirements, including secure TPP access.

Together, these pillars make IBM Cloud for Financial Services and Upsun a top choice when you must prove resilience, limit risk, and still ship features fast.

IBM Cloud for Financial Services gives you a sector-specific control fabric and resilience blueprint. Upsun builds on that fabric to cut time-to-market, reduce operational toil, and make compliance evidence a by-product of everyday delivery.

Use your tools, keep your workflow; we handle security. Modernize with a Cloud Application Platform that offers continuous compliance and robust cyber resilience for customers operating in regulated industries, modernize with Upsun.