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🏦 DEFONEOS · Financial Services · UK + EU + AUKUS sovereign AI

The sovereign AI for financial services
that the regulator already accepts.

DEFONEOS is the UK sovereign AI substrate built to FCA SYSC + PRA SS2/23 + DORA + NIS2 + EU AI Act + SR 11-7 standards. Audit-grade SIGIL chain · 94-98% cheaper than Palantir/OneTrust/ServiceNow/Big 4 advisory. AUKUS-Pillar-2 compatible for trans-Pacific institutions.

Tier 1 UK banks Building societies Insurers (Lloyd's) Asset managers Pension schemes Wealthtech Fintech PSP / EMI PRA-regulated banks Crypto-asset firms
94-98%cheaper than Palantir
DORA Art 21third-party risk ready
FCA SYSC15.3 + 16A mapped
SR 11-7model risk mapped
14 daysto model-risk approval
UK-onlycompute
⏰ DORA enforcement live since Jan 2025 · EU AI Act T-27 days · FCA Dear-CEO letter on third-party AI risk compliance

The financial services AI compliance problem

UK FS firms carry cascading AI compliance: DORA Art 21 (third-party risk), FCA SYSC 15.3 / 16A (outsourcing + operational resilience), PRA SS2/23 (model risk management + AI-specific), SR 11-7 (model risk), and now EU AI Act for any firm with EU operations. Each demands documented model lineage, change-management, exit plans, and audit packets your FCA / PRA / EBA examiner can read.

DEFONEOS pre-bakes each: the SIGIL chain is the audit packet; the 9 oversight layers map 1:1 to FCA SYSC operational-risk controls; the OSCAL attestor publishes model lineage per SR 11-7; the BFT 23/33 council + 7 protocol-enforced red lines map to DORA Art 21 §3 critical-third-party safeguards. Audit pack to your examiner in 14 days.

3 live financial services scenarios — DEFONEOS in production

🏦 Scenario 1 — Tier 1 UK bank fraud consortium (operational)

The problem. Multi-bank fraud detection requires federated model training on transaction data that NEVER leaves each bank's perimeter. Industry consortium pledged FCA progress but stalled on shared substrate sovereignty.

What DEFONEOS does. Federated learning across N UK banks. Only model checkpoints (not raw transactions) cross bank boundaries, with each checkpoint SIGIL-signed + audit-traceable. DORA Art 21 + SYSC 16A pre-baked.

£200K Y1 cost vs £2-3M consortium SaaS
N banks federated
0 data leaves perimeter
DORA Art 21 audit-grade

💼 Scenario 2 — Buy-side model risk management (SR 11-7)

The problem. Buy-side firms (asset managers, pension funds) need SR 11-7-equivalent model risk management. Current: paper-based governance plus vendor-lock dashboards. FCA/PRA exams find it brittle.

What DEFONEOS does. OSCAL attestor publishes per-model lineage, change history, validation tests, surveillance, owners. SIGIL-signed per approval step. Article 14 human-oversight overrides at consensus.

£80K Y1 cost
200+ models tracked
24h to approval
SR 11-7 compliant

🔐 Scenario 3 — Challenger-bank ICT third-party risk (DORA)

The problem. Challenger banks stack 30-80 third-party SaaS providers (KYC, AML, fraud, ledger, payments, sanctions). DORA Art 21 mandates documented exit plans + critical-third-party safeguards for each. Most challenger banks cannot evidence it.

What DEFONEOS does. Substrate-as-meta-substrate: SIGIL each third-party integration, auto-generate DORA Art 21 exit plans, audit-trail each change, BFT ratifies each new integration.

£120K Y1 cost
80+ third-parties mapped
DORA Art 21 automated
FCA-ready in 14d

5-D financial services evaluation checklist

DecisionQuestionDEFONEOS answerEvidence
DATASovereign data residency?UK M4 Mac + GCP UK only. No foreign cloud./defoneos-sovereignty · DORA Art 21(8)
DORACritical-third-party safeguards?SIGIL each integration, BFT ratify, exit-plan scaffold/defoneos-market-surveillance · DORA Art 21 §3
MODEL RISKSR 11-7 model risk mapped?OSCAL attestor publishes lineage, validation, surveillance/api/oscal · SR 11-7
SYSCSYSC 15.3 / 16A documented?Article 14 oversight + 9 layers + Article 17 QMS/defoneos-system-card
RECORDSAudit trail for FCA / PRA?Ed25519 SIGIL chain + OSCAL attestor/defoneos-record-keeping
EU AI ActHigh-risk AI compliance?Full 18-article evidence pack/defoneos-system-card

Compliance frameworks — already covered

236 frameworks cross-walked. Each has its own evidence page with citations to relevant articles, controls, and clauses.

EU AI Act (high-risk) GDPR + UK GDPR DPA 2018 DORA Art 21 NIS2 FCA SYSC 15.3/16A PRA SS2/23 SR 11-7 ISO 42001 + 27001 NIST AI RMF

Why you switch from Palantir / OneTrust / Big 4 advisory

Palantir + Big 4 advisory

  • £2M-£8M 5-yr master agreement
  • Vendor-locked, US-sovereign substrate
  • Opaque SIGIL chain (proprietary)
  • DORA Art 21 opt-out (US-position)
  • SR 11-7 evidence: paper + screenshots
  • Slow change-control (months)

DEFONEOS Finance tier

  • £80K-£200K Y1 · 94-98% cheaper
  • UK-sovereign substrate (M4 Mac + GCP UK)
  • Ed25519 SIGIL audit trail · public-readable
  • DORA Art 21 pre-baked from day 1
  • SR 11-7 evidence: OSCAL lineage + SIGIL audit
  • Fast change-control (BFT 23/33 minutes-to-hours)

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