Why a Financial Regulation Lands on Your Roadmap
You are not a bank. You do not hold client deposits, you are not authorised by a financial supervisor, and you never signed up to be regulated. Yet DORA is now a line item in every deal you run with a European financial client — and this course is written for you: the cloud, SaaS, hosting and managed-service provider on the supplier side of the contract.
The one fact that reframes everything
DORA — Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 — has been fully applicable since 17 January 2025. It is directly applicable law across the EU, and it governs how financial entities manage their technology risk. You are not directly bound by most of it. But almost every obligation DORA places on your financial clients is an obligation they can only discharge through the contract they hold with you. That is how a regulation aimed at banks becomes a requirement on your product, your security posture and your paperwork.
Who this course is for
Cloud & hosting providers
IaaS, PaaS and hosting vendors whose platforms sit behind clients’ critical functions.
SaaS & software vendors
Application providers embedded in banking, insurance, payments and markets workflows.
Managed-service providers
MSPs, MSSPs and outsourcers operating parts of a client’s ICT estate.
CTPP compliance leads
Providers large enough to be designated Critical ICT Third-Party Providers under direct EU oversight.
The commercial reality
DORA has quietly rewritten the buying criteria of an entire sector. A financial entity can no longer sign a service that does not let it meet its own obligations — audit rights, incident assistance, data return, sub-outsourcing visibility, a tested exit. A provider who cannot offer those is, from January 2025, effectively un-buyable for a critical function. The flip side is the opportunity: a provider who is demonstrably DORA-ready shortens sales cycles, sails through due diligence and displaces incumbents who are not. This course teaches you to be that provider.
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