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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.

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The 14th Regulatory Law Trend Conference will be held as a hybrid event. Choose the format that suits you best. You will receive concise, first-hand information from representatives of the Bundesbank, BaFin and other experts on current topics and changes in regulatory law, regulatory reporting as well as bank management, which you can immediately apply to the management of your institution and the implementation of appropriate measures and projects.

The 14. Trendkonferenz Aufsichtsrecht will be held as a hybrid event. Choose the format that suits you best. You will receive concise, first-hand information from representatives of the Bundesbank, BaFin and other experts on current topics and changes in regulatory law, regulatory reporting as well as bank management, which you can immediately apply to the management of your institution and the implementation of appropriate measures and projects.

The seminar focuses on interest rate risk-free margin calculation using structurally congruent refinancing®, on which the entire bank management (both value-oriented and period-oriented) is based and which is also the core of pricing and individual product design in fixed-interest business.

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.

Our series of events for managers provides you with in-depth insights into key aspects of leadership and change in Germany's two largest banking groups - the savings banks and cooperative banks. Use this platform to share knowledge, learn from each other and take a valuable look at the bigger picture. At the 15th Leadership MeetUp, we will discuss how self-organisation replaces hierarchies, strengthens responsibility and, through clear roles, transparency and trust, creates a working environment that promotes personal responsibility, motivation and enjoyment of collaboration.

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