Compliance Readiness Advisory

Examiner ready. Delivered.

ISOs, ISVs, and embedded payment platforms carry compliance obligations no payment platform was built to address. Community banks and credit unions face the same gap ahead of regulatory examinations. Veritaq closes it. We deliver assessments, policy documentation, and a remediation plan before the formal assessment. AI accelerates the work. The judgment behind it stays human.

Who We Serve
ISOs · ISVs · Embedded Payments · Banks · Credit Unions
Deliverables
Gap Report · Policy Drafts · Remediation Plan
Services

What we deliver

Each engagement produces a complete set of deliverables, not a list of recommendations.

01

PCI DSS Readiness

SAQ type determination, cardholder data environment scoping, gap assessment against PCI DSS v4.0.1, and policy documentation for identified deficiencies. Structured preparation for ISOs, ISVs, merchants, and service providers ahead of QSA or ASV engagement. We cover the service provider compliance obligation your payment processor or acquirer portal does not address.

PCI DSS v4.0.1
02

Policy Development

Information security policy drafts your board can approve, one for each identified gap: Information Security Program, Incident Response Plan, Business Continuity, Vendor Management, and more. Generated with AI, delivered as editable documents ready for legal review and board approval.

PCI DSS v4.0.1FFIECNCUASOC 2
03

IT Examination Readiness

Structured gap assessment against current examiner expectations for community banks and credit unions. Prioritized findings with regulatory rationale, a gap report aligned to examiner expectations, and a board presentation your directors can act on.

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04

SOC 2 Readiness

Trust Services Criteria gap assessment and control mapping for service organizations and regulated fintechs. Compliance posture reporting aligned to examiner and auditor expectations.

SOC 2
Who We Serve

Built for payment technology companies and the institutions they serve

We specialize in the compliance gap between what your payment infrastructure covers and what your actual regulatory obligation requires.

ISOs & ISVs

PCI DSS service provider readiness for independent sales organizations and software vendors. Scoping, gap assessment, policy documentation, and AOC preparation: the compliance program no merchant portal or processor platform was built to deliver. We know what a QSA looks for because we spent a decade helping companies prepare for them.

Embedded Payments & PayFacs

Every ISV that becomes a payment facilitator inherits a service provider PCI obligation that stalls merchant onboarding and creates unaddressed liability. Veritaq closes the readiness gap before the formal assessment, with gap scoring, policy templates, and a remediation plan scoped to your payment model.

Community Banks & Credit Unions

FFIEC and NCUA examination readiness, GLBA Safeguards alignment, NYDFS coverage for New York licensed institutions, information security policy development, and board level compliance reporting, without the cost of a full cycle engagement from a large firm. Examiner ready documentation built for institutions that need to move fast.

Fintechs & Technology Partners

Compliance assessment and documentation for technology firms serving regulated institutions. FFIEC, PCI DSS, and SOC 2 readiness, structured for firms that need to demonstrate compliance posture to their bank and credit union clients.

How It Works

A complete engagement in a single week

Most firms take three to four weeks and deliver a gap list. We deliver a complete package, ready for the board, the examiner, or the QSA.

1

Scoping Call

We establish the applicable frameworks, organization profile, and upcoming examination or assessment timeline. Engagement scope and pricing confirmed before any work begins.

2

Structured Assessment

A guided assessment mapped to current examiner and QSA expectations. Designed for your IT, compliance, or security lead, with no prior framework expertise required.

3

Deliverable Package

Gap report with prioritized findings, policy drafts for identified deficiencies, and a stakeholder ready presentation, delivered within five business days.

Five business days, start to deliverable.
Scope on Monday. Board ready, examiner ready, QSA ready by Friday.
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Our Approach

The consulting model is moving. We are moving with it.

Advisory work is being rebuilt around AI. Engagements that once ran for weeks now close in days. Veritaq is built for that shift rather than pretending it is not happening. But faster is not the same as automated. The mechanical work runs on AI. The judgment, the interpretation, and the accountability for what an examiner or QSA will actually accept stay with a practitioner. That is the line we hold, and it is the line that keeps the work defensible.

Built for the shift

Accelerated, not automated

AI compresses the drafting, control mapping, and first pass scoring that used to consume an engagement. The work that takes experience still gets it. You get the speed of software with the judgment of an advisor who has sat across from examiners and QSAs.

Deterministic

Grounded, not guessed

Assessments run on a deterministic engine. Scoring, SAQ routing, and requirement mapping follow encoded logic drawn from the standards themselves, so the same inputs produce the same assessment every time. AI drafts the language. The logic underneath does not improvise.

Integrity

What the examiner will find

Every conclusion is reviewed and owned by an experienced practitioner. We tell you what an examiner or QSA will actually see, not what a model hopes. Honest readiness you can defend, never a false sense of compliance.

Frameworks

Aligned to the standards QSAs, examiners, and auditors apply

Every engagement is structured around the specific regulatory framework your organization is subject to, not generic compliance checklists.

PCI DSS v4.0.1

Payment Card Industry

Readiness assessment and SAQ preparation for ISOs, ISVs, community banks, and credit unions that store, process, or transmit cardholder data. Gap documentation and policy drafts structured for preparation ahead of QSA and ASV engagement.

FFIEC

IT Examination Handbook

The primary supervisory framework for bank technology and cybersecurity. Covers IT governance, risk management, access controls, incident response, vendor management, and business continuity, the domains FDIC, OCC, and Federal Reserve examiners assess.

NCUA

Credit Union Requirements

NCUA cybersecurity and information security requirements for federally insured credit unions, including alignment to the updated Automated Cybersecurity Evaluation Tool (ACET) framework replacing the retired FFIEC CAT.

NYDFS 23 NYCRR 500

New York Financial Services

New York's cybersecurity regulation for institutions licensed by the Department of Financial Services. Readiness for the governance, access control, risk assessment, and reporting obligations that apply to covered entities operating in New York.

GLBA

Safeguards Rule

The GLBA Safeguards Rule requirements for protecting customer financial information. Information security program development and documentation for banks, credit unions, and the fintechs that serve them.

SOC 2

Trust Services Criteria

Gap assessment and control mapping against the AICPA Trust Services Criteria for service organizations handling customer data. Relevant for ISVs, ISOs, and fintech companies whose bank and credit union clients require third party assurance.

About

We have sat on both sides of the table.

Veritaq Advisory was founded by Rich Doyle, a CISA certified compliance professional with over a decade of experience across external audit, financial services examination, and in house GRC leadership.

Rich has worked on both sides of the compliance equation, advising regulated institutions on examination readiness and building compliance programs from the ground up inside high growth fintech companies. That dual perspective shapes how every Veritaq engagement is structured: we know what examiners and QSAs look for because we have spent years preparing organizations to face them.

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