Sovereignty in the Age of AI: What Banks Can Actually Decide

How sovereign are banks really when it comes to the use of artificial intelligence?

Many institutions are investing heavily in AI. But the real question is no longer which application to implement, but where genuine strategic freedom still exists.

Our latest article explores:

• Why banks are becoming increasingly dependent on a small number of providers for chips, infrastructure, and standards
• Why dual sourcing may reduce outages, but does not create strategic independence
• Why proprietary data has become the most important lever for differentiation
• What role European AI models, cloud providers, and regulatory initiatives can play

The key distinction is no longer “make or buy”, but:
A redundancy strategy against outages — or a sovereignty strategy against loss of control?

How high is AI sovereignty currently on your institution’s agenda?

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Five Cloud Myths about Core Banking Systems (Article 2)

In collaboration with Swisscom, a series of articles has been created to answer the typical cloud myths in a banking context. We will try to explain these together with three articles and give you simple and common cloud wordings to help you understand the cloud.

In today’s article, we will clarify Myth 1 and Myth 2:

Myth 1: The cloud always saves money

Myth 2: The cloud makes it easy for cybercriminals

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Five Cloud Myths about Core Banking Systems (Article 1)

In collaboration with Swisscom, we have created a series of articles to address the typical cloud myths in the banking context. We try to explain these together with three articles and give you simple and common cloud wordings to help you understand the cloud.

In today’s article, we clarify the current market trend and the different cloud models that are available.

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