Achieving DORA compliance with Murex: a tech-driven path to digital operational resilience

Murex delivers enterprise‑wide, cross‑asset financial technology solutions for both sell‑side and buy‑side capital markets participants. Its flagship platform, MX.3, is used daily by over 60,000 professionals in 65 countries to support trading, treasury, risk management, post‑trade processes, and investment operations across private and public assets. By consolidating these functions on a single platform, Murex helps financial institutions simplify complex workflows, strengthen risk oversight, and adapt to evolving regulations such as DORA. For organisations in Asia serving European markets, aligning MX.3 operations with DORA’s resilience and compliance requirements is becoming a key part of long‑term technology strategy.

Leveraging MX.3 Architecture for Resilience

Murex’s platform architecture is designed for scalability and operational performance, relying on a tiered, service‑oriented structure where end users access business functionality via desktop or web interfaces. Behind the scenes, the orchestration layer delegates calculation workloads across business engines, while the technical layer handles critical services such as authentication, monitoring, and service registry. Technologies like Apache Storm, Spark, and in‑memory data grids enable high‑speed processing, and computation-intensive tasks—market risk or reporting—are executed on CPU or GPU grids, often within Kubernetes‑driven container environments for cloud‑native resilience. This robust architecture underpins MX.3’s ability to meet stringent requirements around continuity and regulatory readiness, such as those imposed by DORA.

The early impact of DORA

DORA represents a major milestone in risk management and digital resilience within financial services. The tight timeframes for implementation — with several technical standards finalised only after the Go-Live date of 17 January 2025 — have placed significant operational pressure on financial entities. This pressure is expected to persist throughout the first year of DORA, as third-party remediations continue and the first resilience testing exercises are rolled out.
Once the initial challenges subside, DORA has the potential to create a more collaborative, transparent ecosystem that acknowledges the growing importance of technology providers within the financial industry.

5 Areas for collaboration: how Upskills powered by VISEO supports banks

1. Compliance Audits & Accredited Providers – Supporting banks in meeting DORA’s ICT third-party audit requirements.
2. Security Awareness Training – Delivering targeted resilience and cyber-awareness programs for Murex user teams.
3. Operational Resilience Testing – Designing and executing joint testing protocols aligned with DORA standards.
4. Incident Reporting – Implementing streamlined, DORA-compliant incident notification processes.
5. Cyber Intelligence & Information Sharing – Enhancing the integration of Murex operational data into shared threat intelligence networks.