IBM Cloud for Financial Services v2 Specialty is an IBM professional cloud certification focused on applying IBM Cloud technologies to regulated financial services workloads. It validates your understanding of the business drivers, differentiators, and architectural components of IBM Cloud for Financial Services and your ability to support the design, migration, and operation of compliant, secure workloads. The credential tests knowledge of risk and compliance factors, workload environment considerations, modern cloud-native solution design, and operational controls within financial services contexts. Successful candidates demonstrate they can articulate the motivation and benefits of migrating regulated workloads to IBM Cloud, define appropriate technical solutions, and align implementations with compliance controls frameworks. This certification is earned by passing the S2000-023 exam and is awarded via IBM’s certification platform.