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February 24 2026

Google on Building Secure Foundations for Fintech Growth

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Karen Zhang from Google explains how financial institutions can move quickly without increasing risk. Her central point is straightforward: speed only works when the foundations are secure and compares cloud foundations and security to the brakes on an F1 car as drivers can only push to 200 miles per hour because they trust their braking system. In the same way, strong security controls give banks and fintechs the confidence to innovate at pace.

At an infrastructure level, Zhang outlines how Google Cloud embeds security from the ground up. Zero Trust principles and tools like BeyondCorp Enterprise are built into the platform rather than added later while also highlighting Chronicle, which enables large-scale, granular security analytics.

The goal is to remove the burden from customer teams by making security part of the default architecture. Regulation is another key theme and Zhang notes that Google Cloud aligns with regulatory requirements such as the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), giving financial services firms greater assurance when hosting sensitive data and critical workloads.

Finally, Google points to collaboration with regulators, including work connected to the Financial Conduct Authority sandbox alongside fintech infrastructure provider NayaOne. By creating secure “landing zones” for experimentation, firms can test new ideas within clear guardrails. Google’s message to the industry is practical: when security is embedded from day one, it becomes an enabler of innovation, not a constraint.

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