Financial Services IT Disposal: Operational Resilience Evidence Included
Regulators no longer treat disposal as back-office housekeeping: it is a third-party arrangement your firm remains accountable for. We run financial services engagements with one team end to end, no subcontracted handovers, and documentation deliberately sized for internal audit, supervisory review and the reporting regimes now arriving.
Who provides IT asset disposal for regulated financial services firms?
Nanosoft provides IT asset disposal for banks, insurers, asset managers and fintechs with the evidence operational-resilience rules now demand: per-serial certificates, witnessed destruction, GPS-tracked custody and a single accountable team with no subcontracted handovers. The audit pack is sized for internal audit, SYSC 15A reviews and regulator information requests.
What the rules require, and how we evidence it
The regimes below are the ones your auditors and regulators actually cite. For each, here is what it requires of your organisation and the evidence we put in your hands.
FCA operational resilience rules (SYSC 15A)
From policy statement PS21/3, with the transition period ended 31 March 2025, firms must remain within impact tolerances for their important business services. Accountability for outsourced services cannot be outsourced: your firm answers for what its suppliers do.
How we evidence it
A single accountable Nanosoft team handles your engagement end to end, with no subcontracted handovers anywhere in the collection chain, and a full evidence trail so the accountability your firm retains is matched by documentation it controls.
PRA Supervisory Statement SS2/21
Sets the PRA expectations for outsourcing and third-party risk management: due diligence before engagement, ongoing oversight, record keeping and credible exit arrangements for material relationships.
How we evidence it
Chain-of-custody documentation for every collection plus exit documentation for the arrangement itself, so both the disposal work and the supplier relationship are evidenced to SS2/21 expectations.
FCA rules on reporting material third-party arrangements
Published in March 2026 and in force from 18 March 2027, these rules require firms to report material third-party arrangements to the FCA, extending supervisory visibility over the supplier relationships firms depend on.
How we evidence it
Engagement documentation prepared and structured so that, if your firm classifies the arrangement as material, the information needed for reporting is already assembled rather than reconstructed under deadline.
DORA (EU Regulation 2022/2554)
The EU Digital Operational Resilience Act has applied to EU financial entities since 17 January 2025, and its ICT third-party risk requirements flow down contractually to UK suppliers serving those entities.
How we evidence it
We support clients’ DORA third-party requirements with auditable destruction and custody evidence, and contractual terms that accommodate the flow-down clauses EU financial entities now pass to their UK suppliers.
Deliverables on every financial services engagement
- Witnessed destruction, either live at your premises or by HD video from our facility
- Per-serial certificates of data destruction for every data-bearing asset
- GPS-tracked transit in our own vehicles with numbered tamper-evident seals
- An audit pack sized for internal audit and regulator information requests
- Value recovery statements your finance team can reconcile line by line
What goes wrong without evidence
Data-bearing assets leaving without serialised custody
If a drive cannot be traced from desk to destruction by serial number, your firm cannot demonstrate control over it. In an operational-resilience review, an untraceable asset is not a paperwork gap: it is evidence that a third-party arrangement ran outside your oversight.
Batch certificates failing internal audit
Internal audit and compliance teams increasingly reject certificates that attest to a quantity rather than to specific serials. A batch certificate discovered in file two years after disposal cannot be upgraded, and the assets it should have covered are long gone.
Resale without verified sanitisation
Remarketing retired equipment recovers value, but only verified NIST 800-88 sanitisation before resale keeps it defensible. Devices sold on with recoverable client or trading data are a breach with your firm’s name on it, whoever performed the disposal.
Frequently asked by financial services clients
Ready to dispose of Financial Services IT equipment with the evidence built in?
Same-day quote, no obligation. Tell us what you have and where it is, and we confirm a collection slot and a fixed price the same day.