DORA-Compliant Timing Solutions for EU Financial Services

Eliminate Timing Risk from Your Trading Operations

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) mandates strict operational resilience requirements for financial institutions across the European Union.

Financial services organisations and their ICT services providers must implement secure measures that include protecting their timing infrastructure from disruptions.

Hoptroff delivers reliable, accurate timing solutions that strengthen your operational continuity and meet DORA compliance requirements.

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Why Timing Resilience Is Essential for DORA

Timing infrastructure represents a critical operational dependency:

🛡 Timing failures can cascade across financial systems and trading operations

🛡 Operational disruptions targeting timing infrastructure are increasing

🛡 Timing failures lead to inaccurate transaction timestamping

🛡 Resilient timing infrastructure is fundamental for DORA compliance and other regulations (MIFID II, CAT NMS)

DORA requires robust timing resilience across EU financial services to:

✅ Maintain financial services availability against evolving cybersecurity threats

✅ Ensure business and trading continuity

✅ Implement effective third-party risk management and oversight capabilities

✅ Guarantee comprehensive security measures across the continent’s financial sector

Hoptroff Delivers DORA-Ready Timing Solutions

Multi-Source Resilient Architecture

Zero reliance on GNSS signals with built-in terrestrial sources

✓ Multiple terrestrial time providers, including NIST and RISE Sweden

✓ Resilient terrestrial backup if satellite connections fail

✓ Built-in protections against jamming and spoofing

✓ SLA-backed accuracy from 50ms to 100ns without satellites

Established Security Excellence

Proven cybersecurity leadership in timing solutions

Hoptroff maintains the industry's most comprehensive security certifications, including ISO 27001, demonstrating our commitment to protecting essential services through secure and easy-to-deploy timing infrastructure.

Recognised Technical Authority

Leading expertise in secure timing infrastructure

✓ Global timing hub infrastructure across London, Tokyo, Sydney, and New York

✓ Founded by Richard Hoptroff, holder of multiple patents in precision timing

✓ Independently validated nanosecond UTC accuracy through scientific testing

✓ Only ISO 27001/9001 certified time synchronisation solution globally

Our Solutions

Hoptroff Smart Timing™ solutions suitable for DORA regulation

  • Complete precision timing solution with guaranteed SLA accuracy levels to meet your specific requirements.

    Choose from two precision tiers: TTaaS® micro (100 microseconds guaranteed) or TTaaS® nano (500 nanoseconds target).

    Multi-source resilient global timing network provides 24/7 proactive monitoring and support across timing hubs in London, Tokyo, New York, and Sydney.

    Includes Hoptroff Terrestrial Time Feed™, Time Suite Enterprise Client, and automated Hoptroff Compliance reporting.

    Satisfies ISO9001, ISO27001, NENA, DORA, HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, and EO13905 requirements with enterprise-grade security and complete operational management.

  • Our most affordable managed timing service without the complexity.

    Delivers one millisecond target accuracy through a fully managed service with no hardware requirements.

    Provides monthly certification that devices requested time via secure VPN/IPSec delivery.

    Includes automated alerts, continuous monitoring, and comprehensive compliance reporting.

    Meets ISO27001, NENA, DORA, HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, US Executive Order 13805 and JCAHO requirements with annual fee pricing.

    Perfect for cost-conscious organisations requiring reliable timing without incurring capital expenditure.

  • Direct access to the world's most resilient timing infrastructure for custom solutions.

    Raw timing feed from global timing hubs with terrestrial connections to NIST, NPL, RISE, and authoritative UTC sources.

    Multiple GNSS feeds (GPS, Galileo, BeiDou) with terrestrial backup provide unmatched resilience.

    Satisfies EO13905 and EU Notice 9188/1/25 requirements for non-GNSS dependent timing with protection against spoofing and jamming.

    Zero Trust cybersecurity architecture with flexible connectivity options.

    Perfect for organisations building custom timing solutions or requiring direct infrastructure access.

  • Precision timing for modern infrastructure - the same enterprise-grade timing, delivered via the cloud.

    All Hoptroff timing services are available in cloud, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud environments without compromising accuracy or compliance.

    Compatible with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and multi-cloud architectures.

    Features comprehensive timestamping, synchronisation, and analytics with estate-wide monitoring and integrated compliance reporting.

    From months to minutes implementation - eliminates GPS antennas, timing hardware, and ongoing maintenance costs while maintaining precise timing across distributed cloud infrastructure.

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Featured customers and partners

  • Hellen Systems

Industries We Serve

Precise timing is critical across many sectors:

Banking and trading

Gaming and e-sports

Enterprise applications

Energy

Quantum computing

Space synchronisation

AI supervision

Cybersecurity

Regulatory compliance

Content streaming

Navigation, transport and logistics

DLT and Blockchain

Why Hoptroff

All we do is time technology, it’s in our DNA. Our smart timing solutions have been engineered by a team of world-leading scientists and technologists to meet the highest global security and regulatory standards.

  • Our time is consolidated from both terrestrial and GNSS sources and is protected with our predictive AI failover algorithm, making it the world’s most resilient synchronised time

  • Our direct connections to the world’s timekeeping authorities, including NIST and RISE, ensure every second is traceable, accurate and unmatched in reliability

  • We’ve built the infrastructure so you don’t have to. Plug and play via cross connect to our global timing network hubs or via Layer 2, Layer 3 or dark fibre connections

  • With the highest level of compliance and protection, Hoptroff Smart Timing is the only suitable ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 solution for network time synchronisation