Built for FCA, PRA and operational resilience.
Managed Cloud for Financial Services
Accelerate digital transformation with managed cloud built for regulated financial services - secure, cost-optimised, and architected for UK data sovereignty and operational resilience.
Our cloud architects design and manage bespoke hyperscale and private cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) aligned to FCA and PRA operational resilience expectations, ISO 27001, and for groups with EU operations - DORA.
Data Sovereignty and ICT Risk - Meeting FCA, PRA and DORA Expectations
Financial services regulators have moved from asking "is it secure?" to "can you prove it stays running, and where is the data?" The FCA and PRA's Operational Resilience framework requires firms to define impact tolerances for important business services and evidence recovery within them. For groups with EU-regulated entities, the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) adds a parallel, harmonised ICT risk management regime including strict oversight of critical third-party ICT providers like managed cloud partners.
Data sovereignty sits underneath both. Where your workloads and backups physically reside and under whose legal jurisdiction - increasingly shapes audit outcomes, not just security posture. Claranet's managed and private cloud environments are built and monitored in UK data centres, with clear data residency, encryption, and access-control evidence you can hand to auditors, not just assurances.
That's paired with practical ICT risk management: 24/7/365 SOC monitoring, managed detection and response, tested disaster recovery runbooks, and database platforms managed to FCA-aligned standards. For third-party ICT risk specifically, our teams work with your risk and compliance function to document dependencies, test failover, and evidence resilience against your declared impact tolerances - the same language your regulator expects to see.
Whether you need a fully managed private cloud estate, hyperscale environments across AWS, Azure and GCP, or a self-service, UK-only sovereign cloud platform, Claranet's architects design for compliance and resilience from day one - not as a retrofit before an audit.
Accelerate digital transformation on AWS, AZURE & GCP for Financial Services
We migrate your legacy application servers, databases, and on-premise equipment to the cloud. Our team configures landing zones optimised for Financial Services, pre-configured for ISO 27001 and security best practices. We leverage dozens of pre-written playbooks and templates, refined annually, to save costs and improve quality. We migrate databases, configure monitoring agents for proactive maintenance, and support your estate across all main hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP) with full cost optimisation. For workloads that need to stay within UK jurisdiction, we also architect on Sovereign Cloud or fully managed private cloud, supporting your data residency and third-party ICT risk obligations under FCA and PRA operational resilience rules.
Expert managed database services for Financial Services
Our dedicated managed database team excels at supporting high-volume, resilient database platforms such as Oracle, MS-SQL, Informix, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, Data Warehouses, and more. We deeply understand the regulatory environment the FCA imposes on financial services and meticulously maintain and manage your databases in accordance with these critical standards. This includes evidencing recovery within your declared impact tolerances - a specific FCA and PRA operational resilience requirement - and, for EU-regulated group entities, alignment with DORA's ICT risk management expectations.
Integrated SOC, MDR & continuous security testing for Financial Services
Claranet has a dedicated 24/7/365 Security Operations Centre (SOC) where we can install and manage MDR and EDR agents on your hosted and managed cloud solutions. This can be packaged into your solution, making all devices compliant with regulatory standards. We also add a layer of continuous security testing to ensure your estate is pentested every month, with findings reported back to you. This continuous testing regime supports the ICT risk management and incident reporting obligations at the heart of both FCA/PRA operational resilience rules and DORA, giving your risk and compliance teams audit-ready evidence rather than point-in-time assurances.
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Let's talk about your regulated workloads: where they sit today, what FCA, PRA or DORA expect you to evidence, and how a managed service gets you there without the risk falling on your team.
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Managed cloud FAQs for Financial Services
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DORA (the Digital Operational Resilience Act) is an EU regulation that sets ICT risk management, incident reporting and third-party oversight requirements for EU-regulated financial entities. The FCA and PRA operate a parallel UK framework — requiring firms to set impact tolerances for important business services and evidence recovery within them. They cover similar ground but are separate regimes: DORA applies where a firm or group has EU-regulated entities, while FCA/PRA rules apply to UK-regulated firms directly.
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Claranet's UK data centres, documented ICT risk management processes, and tested disaster recovery capability support the evidence financial services firms need for both FCA/PRA operational resilience and, for groups with EU-regulated entities, DORA's third-party ICT risk oversight requirements. Compliance itself is assessed at the regulated entity level, not the technology vendor - Claranet's role is to give you the operational evidence and resilience your compliance team can rely on.
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Data sovereignty means your data is stored, processed and governed under the laws of a specific jurisdiction - in this case, the UK. It affects where your infrastructure physically sits, who can lawfully access it, and what evidence you can provide auditors about data residency. For regulated financial services firms, data sovereignty is increasingly a factor in third-party risk assessments alongside security and resilience.
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No. Claranet's managed private cloud is a fully managed service - our architects design, build and run the environment for you. Claranet Sovereign Cloud is a separate, self-service IaaS platform hosted in UK data centres, where you configure and control resources yourself via a dedicated tenant portal. Both keep your infrastructure UK-based; they differ in how much day-to-day management Claranet takes on.
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We ensure FCA compliance by deploying services on pre-configured landing zones built to meet strict regulatory standards. Our managed services for databases (like Oracle, MS-SQL) and infrastructure are governed by processes aligned with FCA requirements, including data residency, security, and auditing.
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We are hyperscaler-agnostic and provide expert managed cloud services across all major platforms, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). We'll help you select or manage the right platform based on your specific application and compliance needs.
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Our Secure Deployments are an integrated solution featuring 24/7/365 monitoring from our dedicated Security Operations Centre (SOC). We install and manage Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) agents on all your cloud devices. This package also includes continuous security testing, with monthly penetration tests and detailed findings reports to ensure ongoing compliance.
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Yes. Our dedicated managed database team specialises in migrating and managing high-volume, resilient database platforms. We have extensive experience with Oracle, MS-SQL, Informix, and modern data platforms like Databricks and Microsoft Fabric. We handle the entire migration, configuration, and proactive maintenance.
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Our pre-written playbooks and templates for cloud migration and configuration are based on years of experience and are refined annually. They incorporate best practices for security (like ISO 27001) and cost optimisation from day one. This accelerates your deployment, reduces configuration errors, and ensures your environment is cost-efficient without extensive custom engineering.