Accelerating the Financial Digital Ecosystem
AI-accelerated Business Engineering: from business case to live operation.
We simplify systems instead of managing complexity.
A crane is only useful to those who know how to build.
AI is the crane: AI implements in a fraction of the time what once took many hands.
People model the data and rules, AI writes software and tests systems. Only those who understand the business can tell what is right.
Today that knowledge sits in the systems or with the outsourcing partner. Now AI reads the bank's code and documentation. That way the bank regains its knowledge and its independence. Reinventing the bank from the ground up becomes conceivable.
How we work
AI implements. Specialists decide what holds.
The foundation
First the data and the rules every process is bound by: the business constraints. A rule is changed once, not in every process. With the foundation right, processes can be adapted quickly.
End to end
From business case to infrastructure under one roof. That avoids handovers where requirements from regulation and market practice get lost.
The proof
We have the knowledge of bankers and engineers in one place. That is why we test whether the business case pays off, and say so if it does not. We verify revenue, cost and risk through to live operation.
AI and your data
Banking and professional secrecy, supervisory and outsourcing rules are business constraints. In every mandate, we first establish where AI runs and which data it sees.
Services: what you gain
Build new, on today's terms
We build platforms and applications quickly, to today's standards and supervisory rules. Existing and new systems run in parallel until the new ones have proved themselves in live operation. Only then does the bank switch off what is obsolete.
Tackle problems at the core
We take on what has been left open for years: reconciliations, exceptions, systems few people still know. We clarify the data and rules behind them and fix the causes. The result: systems that earn money and cost less to run.
The bank in view
Transaction banking covers virtually everything that enters and leaves a bank in the form of messages or through interfaces. Formats are largely standardised, but market practice is not. Understand these messages and you see almost the whole bank.
Where it hurts today
New builds, legacy and obligations compete for the same money and specialists.
Build new: platform and applications
- New players: neobanks, payment providers, near-finance.
- Wealth management: EAMs (External Asset Managers), family offices.
- Banks: new bank launches, banking-as-a-service, embedded finance, digital assets.
- Payments: implementing ISO 20022 and instant payments end to end, at home and abroad.
- Cash management: managing accounts and liquidity across many banks and currencies.
Retire legacy
- Core banking: building the replacement alongside, migrating function by function, retiring what is obsolete.
- Run costs: cutting complexity and maintenance to free budget for change.
- Lost expertise: understanding and documenting systems few people still fully grasp.
- Data quality: breaking down silos, making data consistent and traceable.
- Manual rework: automating reconciliation and exception handling.
Meet obligations
- Securities settlement: meeting shorter cycles without more errors or higher cost.
- Money laundering and sanctions: cutting false positives without missing real hits.
- Fraud and data theft: detecting patterns before money, assets, know-how or client data leave.
- Risk data and reporting: making every reported figure traceable to its source system.
- Security and resilience: setting and testing the permitted downtime of critical services.
What you can count on
We focus
Our knowledge and delivery on your business.
Relax – we do the job
Done means running in live operation.
We listen to the people
Those who use the systems every day help shape them.
Who we are
Behind Zurich-based Strategem GmbH stands Rudolf Gunz, banker and engineer in one person. He brings many years on large transaction banking projects. AI is the basis of his work.
We work in Switzerland, the European Union and worldwide. We have an international network across the financial industry and sit on its committees. For large projects, we bring specialists from this network on board.
We talk about projects, experience and references after the first hello.
Hello
Let's talk about your project.
- Mobile +41 79 600 01 24
- Email hello@strategem.ch
Strategem GmbH · Stallikerstrasse 39
8142 Uitikon Waldegg · Switzerland