NIS2 for Financial Services: Professor Kai London on Turning Compliance Into Competitive Advantage
By the Swiss Times Business Desk Professor Kai London — board advisor & interim CISO/CIO/CTO. Credit: professorkailondon.com For financial institutions, the tightening web of cyber regulation can feel like an ever-growing tax on doing business. Professor Kai London , a senior CISO and board advisor, urges leaders to see it differently. “Resilience regulation is not a tax,” he says. “It is a specification for the trust your customers already expect. The institutions that treat it as an operating standard, rather than a compliance chore, turn it into an advantage.” “Every serious financial institution is being asked the same question by regulators, partners and clients: can you keep running, and can you prove it? The ones who answer confidently will win the business the others cannot.” A converging rulebook London notes that financial firms increasingly sit at the intersection of several resilience regimes — sector-specific operational-resilience rules, the broader network-and-...