---
id: 4991
title: "How a heavily regulated financial institution implemented Bug Bounty"
source_domain: yeswehack.com
source_url: "https://www.yeswehack.com/customer-stories/how-a-heavily-regulated-financial-institution-implemented-bug-bounty"
published_at: "2020-04-02T06:20:00Z"
tags: ["bug-bounty", "compliance", "penetration-testing", "financial-services", "customer-story", "regulated-industry"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/4991"
lang: en
---

# How a heavily regulated financial institution implemented Bug Bounty

## Summary

A European financial institution's security expert recounts its bug bounty rollout, where a critical issue surfaced within an hour on an already pentested site, and why bounty complements pentests.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** yeswehack.com
- **Published:** 2020-04-02T06:20:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.yeswehack.com/customer-stories/how-a-heavily-regulated-financial-institution-implemented-bug-bounty
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/4991