financial services

September 10, 2026 | 18 min

IT Support in Beijing for a Foreign Insurer's Office: The Evidence Test

A composite scenario: a foreign insurance group's licensed Beijing entity passes every day-to-day IT check and fails the one that matters at audit time - can it show access, patch and data-location records for policyholder data.

September 04, 2026 | 15 min

The Pen-Test Requirement a Hong Kong Payments Firm Didn't See Coming

A composite scenario from Hong Kong: a licensed payments firm faces a routine regulatory review asking for evidence of penetration testing, and finds a two-year-old PDF isn't evidence of anything current. What a maintained testing cadence changes, and where an IT partner's role stops.

September 01, 2026 | 15 min

Your Servers Are in Tseung Kwan O. Who Actually Goes to the Cage?

A composite scenario from Hong Kong's brokerage world: two racks in Tseung Kwan O, a four-person technology team, and no documented answer to who goes to the cage on a Sunday night. The five operational jobs a colocation contract leaves behind, and how to assign each one.

August 28, 2026 | 22 min

Why Hong Kong Companies Are Bundling MSP, MSSP, and HKMA/C-RAF Support Into One Contract

A research report on why Hong Kong companies — especially HKMA-regulated authorized institutions and their vendors — are bundling managed IT (MSP), managed security (MSSP), and HKMA cybersecurity/C-RAF regulatory support into a single RFP, what C-RAF's three components actually require, and where a vendor's honest role ends and the institution's own non-delegable regulatory accountability begins.

August 27, 2026 | 16 min

Remote IT Support Without Losing Control: A Hong Kong Wealth Manager's Story

A composite scenario from Hong Kong's boutique financial sector: a compliance officer blocks a routine remote-support ticket because nobody can say who connected, for how long, or to what. What auditable remote access actually looks like — consented, visible, logged and revocable.