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Audit-ready third-party risk management for financial services

Easily manage all aspects of your third-party risk assessments and significantly reduce your company’s potential for a costly data breach. Meet your regulatory compliance and audit requirements in a simple, automated process.

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Why TPRM is harder in financial services

You are not just managing vendor risk. You are managing regulatory exposure, systemic interdependency, and board-level accountability simultaneously.

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Regulatory scrutiny without end

FFIEC, OCC, DORA, PCI DSS, SOX -- each requires documented, defensible evidence of vendor oversight. One examiner visit can surface gaps across hundreds of third-party relationships at once.

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Expanding vendor ecosystems

Financial institution often manage thousands of third parties -- many with access to PII, payment rails, or trading systems. Nth-party risk compounds exposure at every layer.

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Assessment backlogs

Manual reviews take 3-6 weeks per vendor, and spreadsheet-based processes do not scale. One InfoSec analyst managing 400 vendors is the norm -- not the exception -- in mid-size financial institutions.

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Third-party breach costs

77% of security breaches originate with a third party. In financial services, a single vendor incident can trigger regulatory enforcement, client loss, and reputational damage simultaneously.

Built for the teams behind vendor risk decisions

Vendor risk in financial services spans more than one function. Whistic supports the teams responsible for assessments, oversight, compliance, and vendor governance.

TPRM / IT GRC analyst

You’re buried in questionnaires, follow-ups, and repetitive reviews. Whistic helps you assess more vendors in less time without sacrificing depth or quality.

CISO / VP information security

You need to show leadership, auditors, and regulators that your vendor risk program is mature, measurable, and built to scale. Whistic gives you defensible reporting and clearer program visibility.

IT security manager / GRC director

You need a solution that fits your security stack, supports your workflows, and gives your team confidence in the output. Whistic helps you operationalize TPRM without adding unnecessary complexity.

Internal audit / procurement

You need evidence that stands up to scrutiny, not vague claims. Whistic helps you validate vendor controls, support audit reviews, and strengthen vendor requirements upstream.

Built for the frameworks that govern your vendor relationships

Whistic assessments map directly to the frameworks your regulators expect to see documented — so evidence gathering satisfies multiple requirements at once, and audit prep stops being a sprint.OCC Bulletin 2013-29 · Third-party relationships

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OCC Bulletin 2013-29 · Third-party relationships

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OCC Bulletin 2013-29 · Third-party relationships

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DORA (EU) · Digital operational resilience

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SEC / FINRA · Third-party risk controls

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PCI DSS v4.0 · Payment data protection

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SOX · Financial data controls

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Interagency Guidance 2023 · All banking regulators

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NYDFS Part 500 · NY cybersecurity regulation

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GLBA · Financial privacy standards

Results financial services teams have actually seen

Not benchmarks. Results from real TPRM programs -- measured before and after Whistic. 

96%

AI accuracy on control-specific questions -- with full source citations and confidence scoring.

80%

Faster questionnaire response time -- from 5-8 hours per response to less than one day.

5x

More vendors assessed by the same team without adding headcount.

$39K+

Saved in questionnaire licensing fees by a single Whistic financial services customer.

40%

Faster assessment turnaround at a leading FI -- from 1 week to 2-3 days

12K+

Vendor profiles in Trust Center Exchange for zero-touch assessments.

Trusted by thousand of people & companies.

The traditional method of questionnaire administration, the cycle of back and forth between the vendor and the company has been completely done away with by simply reading through the documents with the AI tool. The resultant Vendor Summary is excellent. I have not seen anything like this and it makes me think that Whistic is definitely where no one else is.

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Whistic User

Head of Cybersecurity

I have looked at ProcessUnity, Prevalent, Panorays, and Venminder. We have used MetricStream and Archer. I think the AI-powered processing of TPRM that Whistic has engineered is a different class.

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Whistic User

Head of Cybersecurity

Whistic’s AI features are just the latest exciting development from a platform that always seems to get better. They’ve incorporated — and even anticipated — many of our needs to keep pushing the UI to new heights. Whistic is the leader in third-party risk management.”

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Information Security Lead

Frequently asked questions

Platform & fit

What is Whistic and what does it do for financial services TPRM?

Whistic is an AI-powered TPRM platform for banks, credit unions, capital markets firms, and fintechs. Single platform for vendor assessment, continuous breach monitoring, Trust Center publishing, and zero-touch vendor access via the Trust Center Exchange (12,000+ profiles). Assessment AI achieves 96% accuracy with citation trails for examiner review.

How is Whistic different from ServiceNow GRC, OneTrust, or Archer for financial services TPRM?

ServiceNow, OneTrust, and Archer are broad enterprise GRC platforms with TPRM as one module. They require months of implementation. Whistic is purpose-built for TPRM on both sides (buyer and vendor). Its Trust Center Exchange has no equivalent in those platforms. FIs are typically live in days, not months.

Is Whistic built specifically for banks, or is it a general TPRM tool?

General TPRM platform with deep FinServ relevance. Natively supports SIG/SIG Lite. Integrated with Shared Assessments. Covers OCC Bulletin 2013-29, FFIEC, DORA, PCI DSS v4.0, SOX, NYDFS Part 500, GLBA. Customers: Calastone (largest global funds network) and Finicity (acquired by Mastercard.

Regulatory & compliance

Does Whistic support FFIEC and OCC third-party risk management requirements?

Yes. Maps to FFIEC IT Handbook, OCC Bulletin 2013-29, and 2023 Interagency Guidance (OCC/FDIC/Fed). Includes SIG/SIG Lite questionnaires examiners expect. Covers documented due diligence, ongoing monitoring, and on-demand audit trails.

Does Whistic help with DORA compliance for EU financial institutions?

Yes. Supports DORA’s vendor register, risk-based due diligence, continuous ICT monitoring, and fourth-party disclosure requirements. Calastone (London-based, DORA-regulated) selected Whistic specifically for this. Trust Center reduces assessment duplication under DORA’s proportionality principle.

How does Whistic handle fourth-party risk — vendors of vendors?

Two mechanisms: (1) SIG questionnaires include sub-contractor disclosure sections requiring vendors to disclose external parties with data/system access. (2) Trust Center Exchange lets vendors publish profiles including key sub-processors for review without a separate questionnaire.

AI & accuracy

How accurate is Whistic’s AI for financial services vendor assessments?

96% accuracy on control-specific questions. Every answer includes confidence score + source citation from the vendor’s SOC 2, ISO report, or questionnaire. Examiner-ready: demonstrates not just what a vendor’s posture is, but how you verified it. Satisfies regulatory documentation standards.

Can Whistic automatically summarize SOC 2 reports for vendor assessments?

Yes. AI delivers concise summaries of key controls, exceptions, and gaps from uploaded SOC 2s. Maps findings to assessment questionnaire controls. Includes source citations. Eliminates manual document review for teams assessing high vendor volumes.

Operations & scale

How long does it take a financial services team to get up and running on Whistic?

Days, not months. No complex implementation. Pre-built SIG/SIG Lite templates included. One FI shared their first security profile with a client within 3 days of getting access. Finicity launched their full vendor assessment program quickly using existing platform tools.

How does Whistic handle the vendor questionnaire burden for FIs also being assessed by bank clients?

Solves both sides simultaneously. Inbound: Trust Center profile replaces manual questionnaire completion; AI auto-generates responses from existing docs. Finicity reduced 5–8hr per questionnaire cycle significantly. Outbound: Assessment AI + Exchange reduce time to assess your own vendors.

Does Whistic integrate with SIEM, GRC, or other security tools we already use?

Yes. Integrates with SIEM and GRC systems for unified vendor + fraud/AML risk visibility. Jira integration for workflow automation and remediation tracking. Full integrations list at whistic.com/partners.

Pricing & proof

What does Whistic cost for a financial services TPRM program?

Pricing based on scope. Free Trust Center profile available. Full TPRM pricing on request (sales@whistic.com). One FI saved $39K+ in questionnaire licensing fees — SIG, SIG Lite, CAIQ included in platform at no extra charge.

What financial services companies use Whistic for TPRM?

Published customers: Calastone (largest global funds network, 4,000+ clients in 55 countries) and Finicity (financial data aggregation, acquired by Mastercard). Additional case studies at whistic.com/customers.

Getting started is easy

Financial services teams are up and running in days -- not months. No long implementation. No rip-and-replace of your existing stack.

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See a live demo tailored to your program's regulatory profile and vendor volume 

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Upload your vendor inventory and existing security documentation 

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Run your first AI-powered assessment in hours -- not weeks

Certifications and Security Partnerships

Iso 27001 Iso 42001 Nist Gdpr compliant Shared assessments Aicpa soc2 Start level one Tx ramp