Fintech audit hub
Financial-services technology — payments, banking, lending, investing and adjacent infrastructure.
Fintech sits at the intersection of strict financial regulation and consumer-grade product experience, which makes the audit profile distinctive. Public-facing fintech sites operate under regulatory regimes including KYC/AML obligations, PCI DSS for any cardholder-data touch, regional banking-regulator scrutiny (FDIC, OCC, FinCEN in the US; FCA in the UK; BaFin in Germany; FINMA in Switzerland), and an increasing layer of data-sovereignty rules. From a technical standpoint, fintech sites typically score highly on TLS and HSTS hygiene because the consequence of a misconfiguration is a public-relations and regulatory event, not just a downgraded user experience. We see strong DMARC adoption with aggressive policies (p=reject is the norm for established fintech brands), DNSSEC enabled more often than the industry baseline, and certificate transparency monitoring as a standard practice. SEO is often underinvested in fintech relative to engineering and compliance — many fintech marketing sites have unmaintained schema markup, slow LCP on hero sections with heavy compliance-disclosure footers, and inconsistent internal linking between marketing and product pages. The audit findings we routinely flag for fintech: SPF flattening errors when ESPs change underlying infrastructure, DKIM rotation gaps, CSP policies that block legitimate analytics scripts, and missing structured data for FinancialService schema.org types that would otherwise improve rich-result eligibility.