Industry Playbook

Banking & Financial Services. Core modernization, real-time payments and regulator-ready AI for tier-1 banks.

Relic partners with global banks, capital markets firms and payment networks to modernize cores, digitize customer journeys and unlock trusted AI. From risk and compliance to consumer wealth apps, we deliver at the standard banking regulators expect.

Success Metrics
$1.2B
Cost saved
42%
Faster time-to-market
99.99%
Payments uptime
-61%
False positives
Challenges

What keeps leaders up at night.

Legacy cores throttle product velocity
Fragmented customer identity
Regulatory reporting overhead
Fraud rings and synthetic identity
Talent shortage in Java, mainframe & AI
Solutions

How Relic engineers the answer.

Composable banking cores

API-first cores integrated with digital front-ends.

Real-time payments

ISO 20022-native rails with sanctions and fraud in the flow.

Risk & compliance AI

AML, KYC and reg-reporting copilots grounded in policy.

Digital wealth

Advisor + client experiences with model portfolios and goals.

Technology stack

Modern building blocks.

TemenosMambuThought MachineKafkaSnowflakeOpenAIAWSAzure
Digital transformation journey

From assessment to scale.

1
Assess

Digital maturity, compliance posture and value-stream mapping.

2
Envision

Signature experiences and platform blueprints tied to business KPIs.

3
Build

Modern platforms with governance, security and observability by default.

4
Scale

Adoption programs, FinOps and continuous product evolution.

Enterprise solutions

What we typically deliver.

AI copilots for domain experts
Modern data platform + governed self-service BI
Zero-trust identity and access modernization
Cloud-native core platforms with regulatory guardrails
24×7 managed services and SRE
Future trends

What's next in Banking.

Real-time everything
Embedded finance
Regulator-supervised AI
Digital assets & tokenization
Cross-border ISO 20022
Customer stories

Outcomes we've delivered.

22 markets on one core
Global universal bank

Delivered a composable core rollout across EMEA in 30 months.

-58% AML backlog
US regional bank

Deployed a risk copilot that summarizes cases and drafts SARs.

FAQ

Banking & Financial Services questions.

Can Relic modernize our core without a big-bang cutover?+

Yes. We use strangler patterns, parallel run and market-by-market waves so product and regulatory calendars stay intact while the composable core grows underneath.

How do you handle banking regulators and model risk for AI?+

Every AI use case ships with model cards, human-in-the-loop controls, audit trails and documentation aligned to SR 11-7 / ECB guidance, reviewed with your risk and compliance teams before production.

Do you work with Temenos, Thought Machine or our incumbent PAS?+

We are vendor-independent and certified across major cores and cloud platforms. We integrate, extend or orchestrate what you already own rather than forcing a rip-and-replace.

What does a typical banking engagement look like?+

A 2–4 week diagnostic, a 90-day foundation (identity, data, landing zone), then outcome-based pods for payments, digital, risk or wealth, with weekly demos and KPI dashboards.

Can you support ISO 20022 and real-time payments programs?+

Yes. We deliver ISO 20022-native rails, sanctions/fraud in-flow and progressive migration from legacy formats with dual-run and reconciliation guardrails.

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