New

Data sovereignty in the cloud read more

bottom-layer-image
Banking Mainpage

creating value
for Banking

The future of banking from one source

The future of banking from a single source

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

This seminar provides insight into the fundamentals of banking statistics reporting, with a focus on monthly balance sheet statistics (BISTA), external positions of banks (MFIs), and borrower statistics (KRESTA).

As part of a live demo, you will get to know the EKKKSA performance level of our MARZIPAN solution and its contribution to taking into account the EBA guidelines on lending and monitoring (EBA/GL/2020/06). Using a calculation example, you will see directly in the software how the economic and regulatory capital costs are calculated in the contribution margin scheme in MARZIPAN and learn from our experts how the bottleneck principle of economic and regulatory capital can be taken into account in the preliminary calculation.

In this short break seminar, you will learn about the msg.ORRP/BAIS approach to collateral calculation. The focus is on compliance with CRR III.

A live discussion with experts from advisory, solution consulting and digital compliance services on how to move from siloed monitoring to converged, entity centric and decision driven financial crime prevention.

In this seminar, you will learn about the options for processing notifications and checking results and gain a sound overview of the various checks that are included in msg.ORRP/BAISform for correct notification submission.

Latest posts on Banking.Vision

Banking.Vision

How Social Engineering, Instant Finality, and PSD3 Fraud Prevention Are Becoming Core Functions Relevant to Liability AI-driven social engineering, real-time payments, and the new liability framework under PSD3/PSR are fundamentally transforming the payments landscape. Fraud prevention is shifting from a downstream control function to a liability-relevant real-time decision-making task, presenting banks, payment service providers, and merchants with new technical, operational, and regulatory challenges – particularly due to the need to make fraud decisions in a documentable and cross-system manner in real time.

Banking.Vision

Unlocking potential from phasing-out variable liability products? Discover how a well-structured product catalogue leads to higher margins, qualitatively improved cash flows, and simplified validation processes.

Banking.Vision

On 1 June 2026, the reform of the Retirement Savings Certification Act (AltZertG) was passed, paving the way for a new Retirement Investment Account (AVD). The starting gun fires on 1 January 2027. What does this mean for banks?

Banking.Vision

Despite the clear direction set by AMLR, the new requirements for AFC risk assessments are causing headaches in everyday practice. Data silos, system discontinuities (Excel), missing audit trails, annual project cycles, and unclear responsibilities are complicating implementation. Part 2 of our blog series looks at the practical hurdles.

Banking.Vision

Becoming a member of the board requires more than just leadership experience. Find out what technical requirements the KWG and MaRisk stipulate – and what else really matters in practice.

Banking.Vision

E-invoicing is gradually becoming a regulatory requirement in Germany—receipt has been possible since 2025, and issuance will be mandatory starting in 2027/2028. For banks and PSPs, this is a strategic game-changer, as invoices become operational process data—and thus the data anchor for invoice-to-pay, cash visibility, automated reconciliation, and new payment services.

Banking.Vision

DORA, the EU AI Act and rising vendor-risk requirements are putting the technology stacks of European fintechs under institutional scrutiny. The key question is whether infrastructure, data and AI dependencies are governable, auditable and resilient.

Banking.Vision

Connecting Scandinavia in your ERP – with ISO 20022 and structured payment references. How Nordic payment systems work in practice.