Independent Advice
Objective Evaluation
Independent SupTech advisory bringing together deep regulatory, technology and vendor-side experience to help regulators identify and objectively assess solutions against their full range of requirements, priorities and constraints.
Navigating complex technology procurement from requirement to selection.
Silver Summit supports central banks, supervisory authorities and specialist financial regulators through the full procurement lifecycle, from defining the initial requirement and evaluating build-versus-buy options through to RFP development, vendor assessment and final selection.
Our independent approach considers the procurement as a whole, ensuring the full range of requirements, constraints and evaluation criteria are understood before potential solutions are assessed.
Our experience across financial institutions, regulatory technology and the vendor market brings an additional perspective to that process. We understand not only what regulators need from technology, but how vendors design, position, price and deliver the solutions intended to meet those requirements.
This combination of independence, domain knowledge and vendor-side experience helps regulatory stakeholders challenge assumptions, evaluate competing approaches objectively and make informed technology decisions with greater confidence.
Requirements & Procurement Strategy
Establish the full requirement, priorities and procurement approach before potential solutions are assessed.
- Business, regulatory and operational requirements
- Stakeholder requirements and priorities
- Current-state capabilities, systems and constraints
- Functional and non-functional requirements
- Build-versus-buy assessment
- Budget, procurement constraints and total cost of ownership
- Procurement drivers, dependencies and time constraints
- Implementation, resourcing and change considerations
- Requirement prioritisation and weighting
- Evaluation strategy and scoring methodology
- Procurement governance and decision making process
Supervisory Capability, Data & Architecture
Define how data, technology and analytical capabilities should support the regulator's wider supervisory objectives.
- Granular and aggregated regulatory data collection
- Data ingestion, validation and quality controls
- Supervisory data models and analytical requirements
- Risk-based supervision and early-warning capabilities
- Trend, anomaly and threshold identification
- Dashboards, analytics and management information
- Licensing and regulated entity management
- Workflow, case management and supervisory processes
- Integration with existing analytical tools and data platforms
- Scalability, resilience and future requirements
Market & Vendor Landscape
Understand the available market, potential solutions and delivery models before progressing to formal procurement.
- SupTech and RegTech market landscape
- Relevant established and emerging vendors
- Platform capability against defined requirements
- Specialist platforms versus broader technology solutions
- Build, buy and hybrid delivery options
- Implementation and support models
- Geographic, language and local support capabilities
- Indicative commercial models and market positioning
- Longlisting and initial vendor engagement
RFP, Evaluation & Selection
Manage a structured and objective procurement process from market engagement through to final recommendation.
- RFI and RFP development
- Vendor briefings and procurement engagement
- Response assessment against agreed criteria
- Clarification questions and vendor dialogue
- Demonstrations and evaluation workshops
- Commercial evaluation and total cost of ownership
- Vendor capability and delivery assessment
- Evaluation consolidation and stakeholder review
- Final recommendation and selection support
Deep experience on both sides of the market.
Silver Summit combines deep experience across financial regulation, financial institutions and specialist technology vendors. This provides a practical understanding of both the regulatory requirements that drive complex procurements and the capabilities, commercial models and delivery considerations of the vendors competing to meet them.
Regulatory & Supervisory Technology
Experience across SupTech and RegTech, regulatory reporting, supervisory data, risk-based supervision, licensing, case management and the technology capabilities supporting modern regulatory operations.
Finance, Risk & Regulatory Data
Experience across finance, risk, regulatory reporting, granular and aggregated data, data collection and analytics, with an understanding of both the information regulators require and how it is produced, validated and used.
Technology Vendors & Market Knowledge
Vendor-side experience provides insight into platform capabilities, product roadmaps, implementation approaches, support models, commercial structures and how suppliers position and respond to complex procurement requirements.
Enterprise Procurement & Selection
Experience across complex enterprise procurements, from requirements definition and market assessment through RFI/RFP, evaluation, commercial analysis, negotiation and final technology selection.
Considering a new SupTech platform or complex technology procurement?
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