IT for advisers whose clients trust them with everything.
Financial advice runs on trust and paperwork: fact-finds, ID documents, pension statements, mortgage applications, suitability reports. Your clients hand you the most sensitive information they own, and the FCA expects you to look after it. Foundry runs the technology so that you can evidence that you do.
Sound familiar?
The things we hear from financial advisers before they work with us. If more than one of these is your week, keep reading.
- A client's pension statements are in a WhatsApp thread on an adviser's personal phone.
- The back-office system logs everyone out at 4pm on a Friday for reasons nobody can explain.
- Consumer Duty landed and we're not sure our systems help us prove anything.
- We passed the insurer's questionnaire, but honestly we guessed on two of the answers.
- Someone left in March and their email is still forwarding to a personal address.
Your environment
What the business actually depends on.
- Microsoft 365 for email, calendar and documents
- Back-office, CRM and cashflow-modelling platforms, mostly cloud
- Provider portals with individual logins per adviser
- E-signature and secure messaging for client paperwork
- Advisers working from home and client premises on laptops and phones
- Compliance and file-check processes that depend on finding documents fast
Your risks
Security, compliance, availability and data.
- Email compromise leading to fraudulent instructions or diverted funds
- Client identity and financial documents leaking through email or personal devices
- FCA expectations around operational resilience and data protection
- Consumer Duty and record-keeping obligations that need auditable systems
- Cyber-insurance conditions for MFA, endpoint protection and backups
- Loss of access to provider portals when an adviser leaves without handover
Your problems
The IT frustrations we hear most.
- The compliance officer is also the person who knows the passwords
- Every provider portal has its own login and none of them are in a vault
- Documents live in email, OneDrive, the back-office system and a filing cabinet
- Nobody has tested whether the client files could be recovered
- Onboarding an adviser means a week of chasing providers for access
The Foundry solution
Foundry runs the firm's technology to a standard you can show a regulator. Microsoft 365 configured and administered properly, every laptop and phone managed and encrypted, a password vault for the provider portals, MFA on everything, email security that stops the fraud attempts, backups that are tested rather than assumed, and a secure client workspace for documents that should never be attachments. One team, one monthly cost, and evidence on file.
Your Foundry stack
The capabilities of the platform that matter most for financial advisers, and what each one is for. Take what you need.
Foundry Secure
→ MFA, Conditional Access, EDR, email security, password vault for provider portals, Cyber Essentials
Foundry Support
→ Helpdesk, laptops and phones managed and patched, Microsoft 365 administration, starters and leavers
Foundry Connect
→ Microsoft 365, email, Teams, identity and licensing, cloud phones
Foundry Portal
→ Branded client workspace for fact-finds, ID and statements
Foundry Cloud
→ Cloud hosting for back-office and CRM where needed, Microsoft 365 backup, tested recovery
Foundry Web
→ Domain, DNS, website and email authentication