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Life Sciences & Chemicals

We know the challenges of your industry

The pressure on companies in the life sciences market to be innovative, to invest and to satisfy regulations is relentless. To ensure profitability and competitiveness in the long term, they must continuously optimize their processes, costs and compliance management.

At the same time, digitalization also holds new opportunities. Collaborations and cooperations in global value creation networks are a prime example. Not to mention the new prospects the integration of digital and mobile technologies, as well as the development of innovative multi-channel and customer-centricity concepts have opened up. The experts at the msg group help you make the most of these opportunities through sound strategic consulting and competent IT support. Build on our expertise.

Advancing Industry Leaders: msg industry advisors boost the performance of companies along the value chain of the manufacturing industry. As experts of the msg group for the life science & healthcare market, their goal is achieved when they have made their customers more successful.

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Heraeus: Carve-out in Record Time: “We were able to complete a business-critical migration of an SAP environment as part of a company-wide reorganization in the regulatory environment and do so within the requested timeframe and with the necessary quality thanks to the support of msg – without any impairment of the product quality or patient security.”
Pfizer: Compliance Governance Excellence: “As part of a long-term collaboration with msg, we established a methodology for ensuring rule-compliance that is specifically tailored to Pfizer GmbH’s needs and are able to follow an approach of continuous improvement. Decisive for the success of these measures was the support we received from msg, especially the specialized business and method competence of the msg consultants we worked with. These process modifications allow us to ensure compliance with internal company instructions and local regulations. We were able to do so with optimized effort and the results were commended by Pfizer Global Security.”

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Digital assets and digital exchanges – a paradigm shift for treasury and capital markets

The capital market infrastructure is in a phase of structural reorganization. What has long been categorized as a ‘crypto issue’ is increasingly developing into an institutional transformation: tokenized securities, digital trading venues, stablecoin-based settlement and the prospect of 24/7 settlement are changing the rules of the game.

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In the EBA’s focus: Second implementation report on the IRRBB heat map

In 2024, the EBA introduced the IRRBB heat map as a monitoring tool for interest rate risks in the investment book. On 26 January 2026, it analysed five medium to long-term focus topics in its second implementation report on the IRRBB heat map. Among other things, the report deals with the modelling of NMD (non-maturing deposits) and the implementation of CSRBB requirements. It also provides practical recommendations for supervisory authorities and institutions.

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Verification of Payee – a field report

Verification of Payee (VoP), also known as IBAN name check, is a security mechanism that checks whether the name of the payee matches the IBAN entered. Since October 5, 2025, banks have been required to officially offer this payee verification service.

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Treasury AI is not trading AI: Why banks need a new intelligence structure

AI in trading optimizes speed. AI in treasury controls stability. Both worlds use similar technologies but pursue completely different goals. Anyone who thinks of treasury in the same way as trading underestimates the complexity of bank management. This is precisely where the actual AI transformation begins.

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The Three Lines Model – when the second line becomes operational

The Three Lines Model is a framework for governance and risk management. However, its implementation in practice often leads to role conflicts. Compliance and internal audit can resolve these typical conflicts and make the Three Lines Model effective.

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The new era of banking compliance: opportunities and risks of data and AI

Never before has the volume of data in compliance been so high – and never before has it been so difficult to manage risks in a timely, consistent and audit-proof manner. Data-based analyses and AI-supported processes promise relief. But not everything that is efficient is also compliant. How can AI tools be used in a compliant manner?

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BaFin’s Digital Supervisory Briefing: Focus on governance and proportionality

Our analysis of BaFin’s Digital Supervisory Briefing 2026 highlights the strategic shift toward greater proportionality and principle-based supervision (9th MaRisk amendment). The focus is on the increasing demands on the governance professionalism of management boards and the management of systemic risks through geopolitics, NPL increases, and DORA. At the same time, it highlights operational relief for SNCI institutions under the small banking regime and the LSI stress test. The article serves as a well-founded guide for institutions to understand regulatory leeway and ensure the expertise of their committees.

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IReF: Implementation Plan Postponed to Mid‑2026

The Integrated Reporting Framework (IReF) is the European Central Bank’s (ECB) central project for harmonizing statistical regulatory reporting across Europe. Originally, the ECB intended to publish the detailed implementation plan at the end of 2025. However, the publication has now been postponed to mid‑2026. What are the reasons behind this?

creating value for
Life Sciences & Chemicals