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Explainers on IT governance, AI and project management from the team that does the work: what the frameworks and guidelines require, and how to put them into practice.
FISC Security Guidelines: what they are and what changed in the 14th edition
The FISC Security Guidelines explained: legal status, structure, who uses them, and the four areas revised in the March 2026 14th edition: AI, cybersecurity, post-quantum cryptography and outages.
- FISC Security Guidelines
- 14th edition
- Cybersecurity
Generative AI in Japanese financial institutions: what the FSA AI Discussion Paper says
What the FSA AI Discussion Paper (version 1.1, March 2026) and the Bank of Japan's 2026 survey say about generative AI in Japanese financial institutions: use cases, governance, risks and AI agents.
- Generative AI
- AI governance
- FSA
IT governance at Japanese financial institutions: the FSA's six perspectives and where COBIT and FISC fit
IT governance for Japanese financial institutions, explained through the six perspectives of the FSA's 2023 dialogue paper, and where COBIT 2019, ISO/IEC 38500, METI's standards and FISC fit.
- IT governance
- FSA
- COBIT
Building a RAG System That Works: Design, Evaluation, Security and Private Deployment
How to build a RAG system that answers from your own documents: document preparation, retrieval design, accuracy evaluation, access control, prompt injection, and cloud, private or on-premises LLMs.
- Building RAG
- Generative AI
- LLM evaluation
PMO Support for System Development: Role, Scope and How to Choose an External PMO
PMO support for system development explained: PMO vs PM, when an external PMO helps, scope, FSA outage lessons, JUAS metrics, offshore teams, IPA model contracts and how to choose a partner.
- PMO support
- System development
- Financial institutions