Derisk Advisory signs the FTL Due Diligence Charter and closes the 2026 Annual Conference

On 10 November, Finance & Technology Luxembourg (FTL Opens in a new tab ) held its annual conference under the theme “From compliance to collaboration: Building a trusted ICT ecosystem”, hosted by Intesa Sanpaolo Servitia in Luxembourg Cloche d’Or. The event brought together financial institutions, ICT service providers, legal experts, and regulators to discuss practical ways of simplifying client-provider relationships in line with DORA requirements.

The day’s centrepiece was the official unveiling of the FTL Due Diligence Charter, a voluntary industry framework developed by a cross-sector working group of roughly 25 specialists over the past year. The Charter sets out ten principles - proportionality, evidence reuse, transparency, constructive engagement, and others - designed to make due diligence exchanges between financial institutions and their ICT providers more rational, less duplicative, and proportionate to actual risk. Derisk Advisory was among the first organisations to sign. Nineteen ICT providers were already listed as signatories when the Charter was unveiled, as reported by Delano Opens in a new tab .

The nineteen first official signatories of the FTL Due Diligence Charter posing in front of the signatory screen, including representatives of Derisk Advisory — The first signatories of the FTL Due Diligence Charter, unveiled at the annual conference of Finance & Technology Luxembourg, Cloche d’Or, 10 November 2026. Photo credit: FTL.

Laurent de la Vaissière, Managing Director of Derisk Advisory and Vice-Chairman of FTL’s Board, delivered the closing remarks:

The Charter is a starting line, not a finish line. It exists because we chose collaboration over fragmentation - and today has shown that choice was well-founded.
Laurent de la Vaissière

He also highlighted the breadth of the working group that produced the Charter - managed service providers, consultants, law firms, and technology platforms, all direct competitors who chose to sit at the same table and build a shared framework from what had been purely bespoke practice.

Laurent de la Vaissière delivering the closing remarks at the podium of the FTL Annual Conference 2026, hosted by Intesa Sanpaolo — Laurent de la Vaissière, Managing Director of Derisk Advisory and Vice-Chairman of FTL’s Board, delivering the closing remarks.

The conference also featured an address by Claude Marx, Director General of the CSSF, who encouraged the initiative, and a roundtable discussion on moving from compliance-driven exchanges to trusted, scalable partnerships, moderated by Intesa Sanpaolo Bank Luxembourg. FTL announced that it will pursue discussions with peer associations of financial professionals - including ABBL and ALFI - in the coming weeks to present the Charter to client-side organisations and invite them to sign as well.

The Due Diligence Charter and Declaration of Adherence are available on FTL’s website. Adherence is open to both ICT service providers (active FTL members) and financial sector entities.