About banking AI
What is a banking ontology, and how does it relate to FSLDM?
A banking ontology is a shared model of your bank: customers, groups, accounts, financing contracts, transactions, collateral and ledger entries, how they relate and which system each lives in. Data Semantics aligns it with established banking data models such as Teradata FSLDM and IBM’s banking data model, so definitions follow industry structure instead of being reinvented project by project.
What is the difference between core banking migration and data warehouse modernization?
Core banking migration moves live customer, account and ledger data when a bank replaces its core system, for example moving to Temenos T24. Data warehouse modernization moves the reporting and analytics layer, such as a Teradata or Oracle warehouse, onto Microsoft Fabric, Databricks or Snowflake while the core stays in place. Data Semantics does both, often in the same program.
Data modernization
Which legacy banking data platforms can you move from?
Data Semantics moves banking warehouses and data marts from Teradata, Netezza, Oracle and Exadata, SQL Server, SAS and Hadoop, and pipelines from Informatica, ODI, DataStage and SSIS, onto Microsoft Fabric, Databricks or Snowflake, with parity reconciliation before each report is switched.
Can you modernize our data warehouse without replacing core banking?
Yes. Data Semantics migrates and modernize warehouses and data marts, including Teradata environments, while your core banking system stays in place. Business rules are carried across with a decision record, and the new platform is reconciled against the old so you can show the numbers match.
Do you support regulatory reporting?
Data Semantics builds the data foundations behind it: data quality, lineage from source transaction to report line, reconciliation controls and audit-ready evidence. Regulatory interpretation and compliance ownership stay with the bank and its specializts.
AI and automation
What is collections intelligence in banking?
Collections intelligence predicts which accounts are about to fall behind on installments, cards and financing, then uses AI agents to send reminders, make calls, track promises-to-pay and escalate. Outreach runs within the bank's conduct rules, including approved contact windows and scripts, and hardship cases and disputes go to a person.
Where does AI fit in a bank, and who stays in control?
AI agents trace issues, score risk, reach customers, prepare cases and recommend next steps within guardrails you set. Business-critical decisions stay with accountable people, and every action is logged for audit.
Security and residency
Can AI run on-premises inside our bank?
Yes, on engagement. AI assistants and agents can run in your own cloud tenant in an in-country region, in a private cloud, or fully on-premises, including air-gapped environments where required. The deployment pattern, model choice and controls are agreed with your technology, security and risk teams during assessment.
Does customer data have to leave the bank?
No. Where your policies require it, we use open-weight models hosted inside your environment, with access tied to your existing entitlements and every prompt, answer and action logged. Nothing goes to a public AI service unless you approve it.
Getting started
How do banks start with AI?
Yes, and we recommend it. Common starting points are a reconciliation that never closes, a warehouse migration, early-arrears collections, contact-center automation and invoice processing. Each new use case reuses the same ontology and controls, so it goes live faster.