Banking & Capital Markets

Progressive digitization and regulatory change together with an intensifying market and competitive situation in the banking environment require operational excellence. You can therefore benefit from the expertise and years of experience of a consulting firm whose core competence lies in the technical, methodical, procedural and technical aspects of commercial and retail banking. From the risk assessment of individual debtors and their collateral through to dynamic pricing approaches and the implementation of modular credit factories, d-fine personalises support and consultation with tailor-made solutions that meet the highest standards. In addition to competent model development and independent validation, d-fine also covers all aspects of customer administration, architecture design and implementation.

Modern, efficient banking operations with scalable processes and systems are key to reducing your cost/income ratio and to achieving sustainable success in a low-margin and highly competitive market environment. Our consulting services for operations address your strategic, professional and technical issues in operating the core bank, trading and payment transactions. We help you with outsourcing your securities processing. We connect your inventory management systems to modern payment infrastructures. We automate your processes and map them into your core banking system. We digitize your bank - from RPA through to crypto-custody.

Thanks to its wealth of experience in risk management, d-fine fully incorporates valuation models, credit risk, market risk, liquidity risk, operational risk and cross-risk challenges such as stress testing, ICAAP and model risk. Its portfolio of services ranges from the implementation of standard procedures and internal models for determining capital requirements through to the development of appropriate methods for internal management and compliance with disclosure requirements. In addition, d-fine has specialised in dealing with non-financial risks such as behavioural risk, cyber risk and business risk. Both the recording and active management of these is becoming increasingly important for our clients. Our experts’ support makes use of appropriate tools for model development and calibration, benchmarking and validation.

Growing pressure on margins and ever-stringent external reporting obligations are placing great demands on the financial sector. Alongside sound knowledge of relevant standards such as local GAAP and IFRSs, an in-depth understanding of measurement techniques and of the data involved are key to success. We support our clients in analysing the impact of, and in implementing, new accounting standards, in the development and implementation of effective hedge accounting solutions and in carrying out indicative measurements and purchase price allocations as part of takeover transactions as well as the development of financial controlling concepts and the introduction of appropriate tools. And of course, we take a holistic view of coordinating or even exploiting synergies to adjacent areas such as reporting or analytical asset liability management.

The ongoing and ever-faster development of banking and capital market regulations not only means that a growing number of standards have to be met, but new qualitative requirements are also constantly appearing. In this respect, aspects such as the model-based assessment of capital equity requirements in the market and credit risk, transaction-based reporting in the capital market business and reports based on individual data can only be countered by being able to fall back on methodological competence, efficient process and IT architecture design and high-quality data management. These are the core competences of d-fine.

Our IT specialists offer support not only in terms of traditional IT projects, but also in your bank’s digitization process. We work with you to develop a sustainable and expandable IT and software architecture always with an eye on IT regulation, governance and security. We provide you with advice in the selection of standard software or develop turnkey, individual solutions for you, scripted in C/C++, Java or Python and using standardised components such as Oracle, MS SQL Server, Ab Initio or Angular.

We support the entire IT life cycle, from requirements analysis through to maintenance and operation. In all this, we are technology agnostic, modernising decades-old, specialized applications in C as well as building new solutions with big data technologies in Apache Kafka and Flink. We often use agile methods and have successfully implemented projects involving more than 10,000 person days.