{"id":1020101,"date":"2026-07-11T08:10:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T02:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020101"},"modified":"2026-07-11T08:35:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:05:06","slug":"uk-to-regulate-cloud-service-providers-microsoft-google-and-others-to-protect-financial-stability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/11\/uk-to-regulate-cloud-service-providers-microsoft-google-and-others-to-protect-financial-stability\/","title":{"rendered":"UK to regulate cloud service providers Microsoft, Google and others to protect financial stability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain has designated cloud service providers \u200bMicrosoft, Google, Amazon \u200band Oracle as critical third-party suppliers to \u200bits financial sector, bringing them under direct regulatory oversight. <\/p>\n<p>The move is aimed at strengthening the resilience of financial firms by \u200creducing the \u2060risk \u2060of widespread disruption from cyber attacks or technology outages. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As \u200bbanks, insurers and financial market infrastructures become increasingly reliant on cloud \u200bservices, disruption at a major supplier could affect multiple firms at the same time, potentially impacting \u200bservices customers depend on,&#8221; the government \u2060said in \u200ca statement on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain has designated cloud service providers \u200bMicrosoft, Google, Amazon \u200band Oracle as critical third-party suppliers to \u200bits financial sector, bringing them under direct regulatory oversight. The move is aimed at strengthening the resilience of financial firms by \u200creducing the \u2060risk \u2060of widespread disruption from cyber attacks or technology outages. &#8220;As \u200bbanks, insurers and financial market infrastructures become increasingly reliant on cloud \u200bservices, disruption at a major supplier could affect multiple firms at the same time, potentially impacting \u200bservices customers depend on,&#8221; the government \u2060said in \u200ca statement on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020115,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020101\/revisions\/1020115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}