Exam-grade evidence. Board-grade reporting. One program.
Banks and credit unions answer to prudential examiners, external auditors, and a board — usually about the same controls, always in different formats. Talarity runs FFIEC IT, SOX ITGC, GLBA, and third-party risk off one control library, and reports out of it.
Sound familiar?
The FFIEC examiner, the SOX external auditor, and the board each want the same control described their own way.
Evidence for the exam is assembled by hand, from inboxes, in the four weeks before the examiner arrives.
Board and risk-committee packets are rebuilt every quarter from screenshots of last quarter's packets.
Nobody can prove an evidence file wasn't changed after the fact — the audit trail lives in a file share.
Third-party and service-provider reviews run on a different calendar from everything else in the program.
The exam and the board meeting are the same evidence, twice.
Financial institutions carry an unusual reporting load for their size. A prudential examiner works from the FFIEC IT Handbook. An external auditor works from the SOX ITGC scope. The board's risk committee works from whatever the last packet looked like. Underneath all three sits the same access-provisioning control, the same change-management control, the same vendor-oversight control — described three ways, evidenced three times, and reconciled by hand.
The reconciliation is where programs lose their defensibility. Evidence gets collected into a folder, renamed, re-exported, and emailed. By the time an examiner asks when a screenshot was taken and by whom, the honest answer is that nobody can say. That's not usually a finding about the control — it's a finding about the record.
Talarity runs one control library and reports out of it in every direction. FFIEC IT mapped to SOX ITGC mapped to NIST CSF. Evidence captured against the control with the timestamp and the collector attached, sealed with chain-of-custody so the record holds up when someone questions it later. The quarterly board narrative and the examination package are two renderings of the same live program, not two separate assembly projects.
The capabilities, in your context.
Governance, Risk & Compliance
Compliance
Run the examination framework, the SOX scope, and customer-facing attestations concurrently, with evidence cross-mapped and sealed for chain-of-custody.
Explore ComplianceGovernance
One control library carrying FFIEC IT, SOX ITGC, and GLBA Safeguards — policies, owners, and test cadence in one place instead of three.
Explore GovernanceRisk
A risk register tied back to the controls that treat it, with FAIR quantification when the board or the audit committee wants exposure in dollars rather than colors.
Explore RiskAdd-on modules
Attach to GRC Professional or Enterprise Governance — same flat price on either.
Third-Party Risk Management
Service-provider oversight on the program's calendar — tiering, questionnaires, BCP/DR posture, and concentration visible in the same views as internal controls.
Workforce Governance
Access reviews and joiner-mover-leaver evidence where the examiner expects to find them — attached to the access controls they prove, not exported from the IdP the week of the exam.
AI Insights
Draft the risk-committee narrative and pre-fill examination responses from evidence already in the platform, with every statement traceable to the record behind it.
What you'll be able to say.
What changes when Talarity is the system of record for the program — not the spreadsheets surrounding it.
Hand an examiner an evidence package whose provenance you can defend line by line.
Test a control once and satisfy the FFIEC exam, the SOX ITGC scope, and the board view.
Produce the quarterly risk-committee narrative from live data instead of last quarter's deck.
Run service-provider oversight inside the program rather than beside it.
Frameworks for Financial Services GRC.
Enterprise Governance
Everything in GRC Professional, plus govern a portfolio of companies from one command center.
Packages move up as your program does. Seats, storage, vendors, frameworks, and entities scale with add-ons.
Further reading for Financial Services GRC
Practitioner walkthroughs from the Talarity library.
- Compliance·9 min readSave a security package once, send it on demandA prospect's security team asks for your SOC 2, your pen test, and your current security policies — again. Package Templates save that set as a reusable definition of pinned items plus rules like 'every current SOC 2 report', resolve it fresh each time you send, and hand it over as a redacted, watermarked, time-limited copy with a record of who received what.
- Compliance·6 min readSystem Configuration — turn a completed assessment into enforceable, drift-tracked baselinesEvery safeguard you scored in an assessment becomes an enforceable expected value. Talarity re-checks the observed state, flags drift, opens remediation automatically, and lets you attach evidence per control — so your controls stay implemented, not just documented once.
- Governance·6 min readExport and verify your audit trail for SOC 2Pull your full audit trail as a SOC 2 evidence file in any format, then prove it wasn't altered with a one-click tamper-evidence check — backed by a per-row hash chain and a Merkle root your auditor can re-verify offline.
- Governance·6 min readCatch toxic access combinations with Segregation of DutiesDefine the pairs of duties no single person should hold — approve and disburse, accept a risk and own its control — and Talarity flags every user who holds both, with ten framework-mapped starter rules out of the box.
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