Case Study: Leading International Bank improves compliance performance and cuts access review time by 66% with SailPoint Technologies

Leading International Bank Improves Compliance Performance and Risk Posture with SailPoint

A top-15 global bank supporting 100,000+ employees and 3,000 branches faced stringent regulatory requirements (SOX, Basel II) but relied on slow, manual, fragmented access reviews that took a full quarter to complete and left limited visibility into who had access to sensitive systems. The bank needed a consistent, centralized, and automated way to prove compliance, reduce risk and simplify auditing.

The bank implemented SailPoint’s identity governance solution, cleansing and centralizing identity data for over 25,000 users and launching a fully automated access certification across 29 SOX-relevant applications in 60 days. The deployment delivered on-demand visibility, cut review time by 66% (from three months to four weeks), eliminated 20% of unnecessary entitlements and materially improved compliance performance and the organization’s risk posture.