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Low interest rates, competition, digitalization and regulation all shape banking and create considerable turbulence in the banking industry. msg group has three key banking experts: msg for banking ag, msg Rethink Compliance and Finnova, all of whom have the expertise and experience required to help banks master the challenges of today, while preparing for those of tomorrow.

msg for Banking

msg for banking rethinks banking and offers our customers smart, innovative and platform-based digitized solutions from a single source. For more than 100 years, we have been supporting our customers in optimizing their business success and helping them to transform their business in line with constantly changing financial markets. As a market leader in bank management and regulatory reporting and a provider of high-quality consulting solutions, we are a reliable partner at our customers' side.

In the areas of Strategy & Business Models, Finance, Risk & Compliance, Capital Markets, Payments, Digital Transformation & IT and Financial Artificial Intelligence, we are ideally equipped to identify and evaluate upcoming challenges and implement them together with our customers. Solutions in the areas of digitalization and cloud are just as much a part of this as a solution for the overall bank management of the future.

ORRP - the Open Risk and Reporting Platform Architecture - is our answer to the consistent and transparent methods and processes in bank management required by European and national supervisory authorities. ORRP combines the technical added value of the solutions THINC (bank management) and BAIS (reporting) on one platform and thus enables the efficient linking of reporting and risk controlling, for example in the normative approach of ICAAP/ILAAP. In this form, ORRP is unique in Germany.

Finnova develops product-based front-to-back office solutions for banks. With their proprietary product, “Finnova Banking Software”, the Swiss company helps banks and BPO providers efficiently process their standard banking functions.

The consulting and technology company msg Rethink Compliance is a specialist in the area of Anti-Financial Crime and helps customers to implement their compliance strategies to combat money laundering, terrorist financing and corruption.

Banking.Vision Events

How can banks and financial institutions plan and manage the transition to a climate-neutral economy in a targeted manner? This information event shows how climate transition planning can become a strategic tool – with clear frameworks, proven methods and practical examples. The event is part of the multi-session series ‘Shaping the future: transition planning as a lever for sustainable value creation in the financial sector’. Join us for further events on the topics of risk management and financed emissions in the transition plan – practical, regulatory-based and strategically relevant.

Regulatory uncertainties are the biggest obstacle for banks when it comes to implementing artificial intelligence in their organisations. IIn this Coffee Break, you will learn how AI can seamlessly be integrated into your existing requirements management system – and why regulations are not the real challenge when it comes to a successful AI strategy.

PAAR (in german: Prüfung Aufsichtlich Angemessener Risikovorsorge/Audit of supervisory risk provisioning) - a special type of special audit in accordance with Section 44 KWG, which focuses on the assessment of the recoverability and prudentially appropriate risk provisioning of loan exposures - will become a supervisory audit focus in 2025/2026. At our impulse day, you will receive information on the audit approach, practical tips and a first-hand experience report from an institution audited in 2025.

The online seminar on foreign currency products offers you in-depth insights and practice-oriented knowledge on the instruments and structures relating to the asset class of currencies. In particular, key topics such as market structures and market mechanisms as well as the functioning of the various products in the global trading environment are highlighted and basic terms are explained. Practical exercises help you to consolidate the knowledge you have acquired.

The events provide you with a concise insight into current developments and project experiences with a focus on the explainability of AI models in the financial sector. You will learn about the implications for bank management, risk management and lending, as well as the support of supervisory authorities for the use of AI in risk management – with a focus on the explainability of AI models, in particular through ‘Explainable AI’ (XAI).

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Read the latest issue of our customer magazine NEWS 03/2025 to find out what is relevant for the banking industry today and tomorrow: From practical tips for AI resilience to the possible consequences of risk-weighted capital requirements vs. simple leverage ratios and a Payments Radar 2026, to the opportunities for a data-inspired bank, the implementation of the CSRD in Germany and much more.