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The EU’s DORA: Strategic implications for third-party financial service providers

'The Plough Driven Over the Site of Carthage', 1890. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History Vol. II - Rome", by Edmund Ollier.
Ancient Rome outsourced its defense to allied tribes. Photo: The Print Collector via Getty Images

Many global organizations have learned that without appropriate oversight, third parties can become liabilities. Max Veve says DORA is the stand out regulation.

Despite what one might think, the externalization of key processes for effective organization is not a new phenomenon. Historically, even ancient Rome outsourced its defense to allied tribes known as the Foederati. More recently, the allied troops during the First World War made heavy use of outsourced logistics for food