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Financial services
Banks and insurers run some of the heaviest data estates in the Nordics — much of it built on SAS — under real regulatory pressure from risk, compliance and DORA operational-resilience obligations. Modernising that foundation, safely, is the work.
Strategys supplies the senior specialists behind it — SAS-to-Databricks migration, governed data platforms, AI for risk and compliance, and post-merger integration — with senior specialists experienced in financial-services data.
The challenge
Regulated data, built to last on legacy tools
Financial services share one shape of problem: mission-critical data — risk, actuarial, compliance, fraud — built up over decades on legacy tools, now under regulatory pressure to be dependable, governed and modern. These are the pressures we most often help with.
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Heavy SAS estates
Banks and insurers run some of the largest legacy SAS estates in the Nordics — risk, actuarial and regulatory analytics that teams want to modernise onto a governed platform.
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Regulatory data pressure
Risk, compliance, fraud and actuarial data under hard regulatory drivers — including DORA operational-resilience obligations — where the data itself has to be dependable and governed.
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Consolidation & change
M&A, carve-outs and platform consolidation across financial groups, where integrating data, systems and teams is the real work.
Practices that apply
What we bring to financial services
A financial-services engagement usually combines a few of our practices — modernising the SAS estate is often the entry point, with the platform, AI and integration capability behind it.
- SAS to Databricks migration — moving heavy risk, actuarial and regulatory SAS estates onto a governed lakehouse.
- Data & Databricks — the governed data platform that risk, compliance and DORA reporting rest on.
- AI & GenAI — AI and generative AI for risk, compliance, fraud and actuarial work, with governance built in.
- Post-merger integration — integrating data, systems and teams across financial-services deals and consolidations.
- PMO & delivery — programme and PMO leadership to run large, regulated change across the organisation.
Regulation
A dependable data foundation for DORA
The EU Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), in force since January 2025, sets operational-resilience and data-governance obligations for financial entities. We help by making the underlying data dependable and governed — the platforms, pipelines and controls that resilience and regulatory reporting rest on. We advise on the data foundation, not on legal interpretation.
Experience
Built for regulated financial-services data
Our consultants bring senior data-engineering and delivery experience from financial services — the SAS estates, the risk and compliance data, and the regulated change programmes that define the sector.
FAQ
Financial services — questions we get
What does Strategys do for banks and insurers?
We supply senior specialists for financial-services data and change — SAS-to-Databricks migration, governed data platforms, AI for risk, compliance and fraud, DORA operational resilience, and post-merger integration — either embedded in your team or as a project team that owns delivery.
Which practices apply most to financial services?
SAS-to-Databricks migration is often the entry point, because banks and insurers hold the heaviest SAS estates. It is backed by our data and Databricks platform work, our AI and GenAI practice for risk, compliance and fraud, and our post-merger integration practice for financial-services deals.
What is DORA and how do you help with it?
DORA — the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act, in force since January 2025 — sets operational-resilience and data-governance obligations for financial entities. We help by making the underlying data dependable and governed: the platforms, pipelines and controls that operational resilience and reporting rest on. We advise on the data foundation, not on legal interpretation.
Why is SAS-to-Databricks migration relevant to banking and insurance?
Banks and insurers built much of their risk, actuarial and regulatory analytics on SAS over decades, and now want the openness, scale and cost profile of a modern lakehouse. Our SAS-to-Databricks migration practice moves those workloads onto a governed Databricks platform while preserving the rigour the regulator expects.
Do you have real financial-services experience?
Our consultants bring senior experience from financial-services data and change. We describe that experience at sector level rather than naming individual institutions.
Modernising a bank or insurer's data platform?
Tell us about your SAS estate, your risk and compliance data, or the DORA foundation behind it. We will talk you through how a governed, modern platform would work for your organisation.
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