Blogs
Power of 3 - When Business Analysis, AI Consultancy and Data Expertise Come Together
Most companies no longer need to be convinced of AI’s potential. The more difficult question is how to turn that potential into something people can rely on in their daily work ... read more
Founder Story:
HICO VAULT CHAT
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly transforming how businesses operate, but for many organizations, cost, accessibility, and control remain major barriers. Bastian Lossen, CCO at HICO Group, decided to tackle ... read more
Bringing AI to Life
When small and mid-sized enterprises talk about "going digital" or "bringing in AI", it usually starts with genuine progress: new tools deliver quick wins, dashboards light up, and first automations save time. Yet after the initial ... read more
Why AI Makes ISO 24896 Critical for Bank Reporting
For years, most banks have accepted a quiet inefficiency: every management report, board pack and dashboard looks slightly different. Different colour codes, different axis scales, different ways of ... read more
AI Agents in Banking: Does Your Bank Know What “Revenue” Means?
We spent roughly 15 years moving away from centralised semantic models. The goal was speed. Analysts should connect data, create calculations and build dashboards ... read more
AI in Finance: How to Reduce Decision Latency in Finance and Controlling
At Chicago Booth we spent a lot of time on a simple idea: the value of information is closely tied to how quickly it is incorporated into decisions. In efficient markets, ... read more
Client Focus in Banking: Why Digitisation Alone Is Not Enough
In a world of agents, automation and trigger-based service, it would be a missed opportunity to stop at fixing the account opening flow. Technology now allows banks to redesign much larger parts of the relationship ... read more
AI Risk in Banking: What Jamie Dimon’s Initiative Cannot Fix
Jamie Dimon is personally recruiting bank and technology leaders into an expanded industry group to tackle AI risks. The initiative grows out of the Alliance for Critical Infrastructure and already reaches more than ... read more
Institutional Knowledge in Banking: Why AI Makes It More Valuable
General knowledge is no longer scarce. Anyone with a decent model can access macro analysis, sector overviews, historical data and coherent reasoning in seconds. The old arbitrage on publicly ... read more
Shadow AI - Hidden Risks
In the day-to-day operations of many, AI applications have long been in use, but often privately. Employees use tools like ChatGPT or other chatbots to be more effective, test ideas, or simplify routine tasks, usually with the best of intentions. What is often overlooked ... read more