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Banco de España

The Banco de España supervises credit institutions and financial entities in Spain. The Banco de España is responsible for safeguarding the stability of the financial system, preventing significant disturbances in the banking sector, and verifying regulated entities compliance with banking regulations. 

Google Cloud’s contracts for financial institutions in Spain address the Bank of Spain’s requirements. We have also created mappings for both Google Cloud and Google Workspace to help you understand how we can support you with meeting the Bank of Spain’s requirements and assess us as an outsourced service provider. Google Cloud is committed to addressing these requirements regardless of how financial institutions choose to use our services.


Bank of Spain’s Compliance Offerings

Learn more about the key laws, regulations, and guidelines prescribed by the Bank of Spain.

Learn more about the Bank of Spain’s Circular 2/2016

The Banco de España issued Circular 2/2016, which sets out the minimum requirements that Banco de España expects regulated entities to meet when outsourcing. Circular 2/2016 provides specific guidance on risk management, concentration risk, data locations, due diligence, monitoring the service, audit, termination, transition, sub-contracting, business continuity and security. For more information, we have put together a compliance mapping for Google Cloud and Google Workspace.

Learn more about the Bank of Spain’s Circular 3/2022

The Bank of Spain issued Circular 3/2022, which sets out the minimum requirements that Banco de España expects regulated entities to meet when outsourcing. Circular 3/2022 provides specific guidance on general requirements applicable to delegated services or functions; delegation policies and the delegation of essential services or functions. We have provided Google Cloud and Google Workspace compliance mappings for those wishing to learn more about how our services comply with Circular 3/2022.

ISO/IEC 27001

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ISO/IEC 27017

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ISO/IEC 27018

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