AI Training & Courses for Banking & Finance.
ENTERPRISE INHOUSE & REMOTE TRAINING

AI Training & Courses for Banking & Finance.

Enterprise enablement for front office, compliance, legal, and credit teams: role-based AI training aligned with FINMA Guidance 08/2024, Swiss banking secrecy (Art. 47 Banking Act), and the Swiss FADP.

YOUR AI ORIENTATION
01FOCUS & APPLICATION AREA

AI means so many things. Which AI do you actually need? What is your specific area of application?

02FROM EXPERIMENT TO ENTERPRISE

We help - from short-term pilot projects and rapid experiments all the way to enterprise solutions.

03DISCOVER THE POSSIBILITIES

Simply streamline daily workflows or transform an entire business unit with autonomous agents? Discover the possibilities with us.

Industry Reality

Between efficiency pressure, FinSA documentation, and strict banking compliance.

Swiss banks face a dual challenge: regulatory documentation requirements (FinSA, AMLA, FINMA) are continuously rising, while discerning clients expect fast, highly personalized advisory services.

While relationship managers and analysts spend hours drafting meeting minutes, searching internal directives, or summarizing financial reports, valuable time is lost for active client relationship building.

At the same time, teams often face uncertainty: what is permitted under Swiss Banking Secrecy (Art. 47 BankA), and how do you engineer prompts for reliable financial analysis?

39%

of people using AI at work had received AI training from their employer.

According to the global Microsoft and LinkedIn Work Trend Index 2024. Practical training helps your team put AI to use. Source: Work Trend Index 2024

  • High documentation workload: Time-consuming creation of FinSA-compliant advisory minutes, credit memos, and KYC notes.
  • Complex policy landscape: Slow manual searches across hundreds of pages of internal directives and compliance rules.
  • Shadow AI risks: Unclear guardrails lead either to risky use of consumer tools or complete hesitation across teams.
From Practice. For Practice.

Our Approach

We skip theoretical buzzwords and focus on immediately applicable workflows that provide instant relief in busy daily operations.

100% Industry Focus

Real-world use cases from retail banking, private banking, and asset management.

Tailored & Compliant

Content is tailored precisely to your team (Compliance, Advisors, Risk) and FINMA guidelines.

Future-Proof

From automated memo creation to approaches in data-driven portfolio analysis.

Training Content: From Back Office to Core Business

Our training courses cover the entire spectrum, structured by implementation horizons:

Short-term

Productivity & Correspondence

  • ✓Correspondence: Fast, professional drafting of memos, emails, and protocols.
  • ✓Summaries: Extraction of key statements from long financial market reports and balance sheets.
  • ✓Research: AI-supported query systems for internal guidelines and working instructions.

Medium-term

Risk, Compliance & Advisory

  • ✓KYC/AML: Automated document checking and background research for due diligence.
  • ✓Private Banking: Generation of personalized investment stories for client meetings.
  • ✓Lending: Accelerated credit scoring through pre-evaluation of unstructured data.

Long-term

Strategy & Portfolio

  • ✓Robo-Advisory: AI models for autonomous or hybrid asset management.
  • ✓Predictive Analytics: Predictive models for market trends and customer churn.
  • ✓Enterprise AI: Implementation of fully isolated, bank-owned LLMs (Large Language Models – on-premise).
Target Audience

Who Are Our AI Trainings Designed For?

Our training courses are tailored to specialists, department heads, SMEs, and management teams.

Compliance & Risk

Automation of KYC/AML (Know Your Customer / Anti-Money Laundering) checks and creation of regulatory reportings.

Private Banking & Advisory

Fast portfolio summaries and hyper-personalized preparation of customer meetings.

Back-Office & Admin

Accelerated processing of credit applications, document checks, and customer correspondence.

Executive Management

Strategic deployment of secure, local AI models to sustainably reduce the cost-income ratio.

Hands-On Banking Exercises

Concrete Workflows from Our Banking Seminars

All exercises are conducted using anonymized case data in strict compliance with Art. 47 BankA and the Swiss FADP.

Private Banking & Retail

FinSA-Compliant Advisory Minutes from Bullet Points

Structured transformation of raw meeting notes into formal advisory minutes including risk disclosures and action items.

Saves ~25 minutes per client meeting while improving documentation consistency.

Credit & Corporate Banking

Financial Statement & Annual Report Analysis for SME Credit

Multi-step prompt framework to extract cashflow risks, covenants, and peer benchmarks from extensive annual report PDFs.

60% faster preparation of credit committee decision memos.

Compliance & Legal

Regulatory Gap Analysis & Policy Synthesis

Systematic comparison of new FINMA circulars or AML requirements against existing internal work instructions.

Immediate gap overview and precise drafts for internal policy updates.

Looking for strategic AI consulting or custom software integration beyond team training?

Explore our industry consulting roadmap and holistic digitalization solutions.

Formats

Choose Your Suitable Package

All our seminars can be customized to your specific business operations.

Foundation

AI Foundation Seminar

CHF 3,100 / Day
  • 01Creates confidence among employees and management
  • 02Focus on data security & correct application
  • 03No IT prior knowledge required – Easy start
To the AI Foundation Seminar
Bestseller

AI Practical Seminar

CHF 4,900 / Day
  • 01Incl. initial discussion & detailed needs analysis
  • 02Solving concrete problems from your daily work
  • 03High practical utility for all employees
To the AI Practical Seminar
Recommended
Advanced

AI Intensive Workshop

CHF 7,150 / 2 Days
  • 01Combining AI knowledge & concrete application
  • 02Detailed analysis of your processes & potentials
  • 03Creation of a roadmap for implementation
To the AI Intensive Workshop
Agenda

A Structured Path to Success.

We prepare real-world examples in advance to guarantee immediate wins for your employees.

Your Time Investment

A single full day is enough to significantly relieve the back office, leaving more time for what matters most.

1
Phase 1

Foundations & Banking Compliance

We demystify AI and establish a solid foundation: How do LLMs function? What does this mean for banking secrecy, and which tools are secure (Enterprise/Local vs. Public)?

2
Phase 2

Methodology & Precise Prompting

Interactive training for the financial sector: How do you formulate complex prompts for structured extraction of key metrics from balance sheets or annual reports, followed by verification against the original source?

3
Phase 3

Transfer & Banking Practice

Live trial on real tasks: For example, we let the AI generate a preparation for a private banking discussion based on market news and hypothetical client preferences.

Phase 4

Strategy & Outlook

Definition of binding workflows for back and front offices, as well as identification of potential for full automation of KYC processes.

Feedback

What Our Participants Say

Real voices from our seminars, trainings, and workshops.

Eliane Marty

Eliane Marty

Managing Director, Baugenossenschaft Waidmatt

"The AI seminar by Peak Pioneers was a valuable investment. We learned concrete use cases that relieve us in our daily business. The delivery of the content was professional and directly applicable to our operations."

Monika Hofer

Monika Hofer

Head of Finance / HR

"Thanks to the accompanying multi-part seminar program on Artificial Intelligence, we were also able to ensure that the entire team competently uses the new capabilities right from the start. The content was conveyed clearly, practically, and understandably for all participants."

Monika Müller-Seps

Monika Müller-Seps

Managing Director, Terra Est Vita Stiftung

"Peak Pioneers' training on Artificial Intelligence was extremely inspiring and highly practical. The competent instructor not only imparted well-founded knowledge but also gave many helpful tips for concrete implementation in everyday life."

BANKING REGULATION & EVIDENCE

Research and guidance in context

Research can help identify useful applications. It does not replace testing the outcome in your own business.

50%

Of surveyed Swiss financial institutions already deploy or develop AI applications

In Guidance 08/2024, FINMA notes that roughly half of surveyed Swiss financial institutions already use or actively develop AI – setting clear supervisory expectations for governance, robustness, explainability, and documentation.

Circ. 2023/1

Strict operational resilience and critical data requirements for banking IT

FINMA Circular 2023/1 requires banks and securities firms to maintain end-to-end risk management across ICT, critical data, and cloud interfaces under Art. 47 of the Swiss Banking Act.

Training FAQ & Organization

Important Answers for Your AI Training

Everything you need to know about customization, confidentiality, prior knowledge, and in-house execution.

01

How is Swiss Banking Secrecy (Art. 47 BankA) protected during training?

  • We work exclusively with synthetic or anonymized training dossiers, and every seminar includes dedicated hands-on training on Zero-CID prompting and your internal AI policy.
02

Can you train our staff on our bank-approved AI environment (e.g., M365 Copilot or internal Bank-GPT)?

  • Yes. Prior to every in-house training, we align with your IT and Compliance teams and train employees directly on your approved tools.
03

Are exercises tailored to Relationship Managers, Credit Analysts, and Back Office teams?

  • Absolutely. We configure modules by department so each role practices with relevant real-world banking scenarios.
04

Do participants need prior technical or coding skills?

  • No. Our banking workshops guide both beginners and advanced users step by step into reliable daily workflows.

Ready for the Next Step?

Contact us for a non-binding initial call. We analyze your training needs and create a tailored proposal for your team.

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