Several financial institutions are accelerating their modernisation programmes using software from BMC, as banks look to strengthen resilience, automate operations, and manage increasingly complex data workflows.
The software company said organisations including Germany’s Atruvia, European IT services provider NRB, and digital lender LINE Bank Taiwan have deployed BMC tools to modernise legacy mainframe environments and standardise workflow orchestration. The projects span database recovery automation, developer productivity improvements, and digital banking workflow management.
The initiatives reflect a broader shift across the banking sector. Many institutions continue to rely on mainframe systems to run core financial operations, yet are under pressure to modernise development processes, integrate cloud services, and comply with evolving regulatory standards.
Atruvia — the technology service provider supporting more than 670 cooperative banks in Germany — recently upgraded its database recovery infrastructure using BMC AMI Recovery for Db2. The organisation manages technology services for banks representing approximately 91 million customer accounts.
The upgrade was designed to strengthen operational resilience and support compliance with the European Union’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), alongside Germany’s financial regulator BaFin requirements.
“The banks’ operations depend on our operations. Their resilience depends on our resilience. By modernising our database recovery capabilities, we support DORA and BAFIN rules, and we bring even greater resilience to banking in Germany,” said Rüdiger Schmitt, System-Engineer and Product Owner for Db2-zOS at Atruvia AG.
According to the company, the recovery platform enables automated database restoration and parallel recovery simulations, allowing testing of disaster recovery scenarios without interrupting live banking systems.
In Belgium, technology services company NRB has taken a different approach to modernisation by focusing first on the developer environment supporting its clients’ mainframe applications. The organisation is using BMC AMI DevX tools to streamline development workflows and improve visibility into software changes.
The platform enables developers to track code modifications and perform rapid fallbacks in production environments if issues arise — a capability intended to accelerate application transformation while maintaining operational control.
“We can now track every change and perform quick fallbacks in production,” said Benoît Ebner, system engineer at NRB. “We now have access to many statistics and KPIs that we didn’t have before, which helps us identify areas for improvement.”
In Asia, Taiwan’s LINE Bank — a digital-only bank integrated with the widely used LINE messaging platform — has focused on workflow orchestration as it scales its services.
The bank has implemented the Control-M platform from BMC to automate and manage application and data workflows across its digital banking infrastructure. The system supports more than 5,000 job schedules spanning services such as daily account balancing, financial data analysis, and cross-channel synchronisation.
LINE Bank said the automation framework has helped reduce manual wait times by 30%, cut cross-platform integration workloads by 30%, and reduce maintenance time when launching new products by 30%.
The platform has also enabled the bank to introduce new services including nonstop US dollar currency exchange — a first for Taiwan’s banking sector.
“With Control-M we can run secure, stable, efficient processes, and we can flexibly integrate workflows across innovative new solutions, all while meeting the requirements of the financial industry,” said Leo Weng, chief technology officer at LINE Bank Taiwan. “We use Control-M to automate complex workflows with high data volumes, and we look forward to using it to ease the integrations of cloud and AI solutions in the future.”
Across the sector, banks are balancing two competing pressures: maintaining the reliability of longstanding mainframe systems while introducing new digital capabilities. Automation platforms and development tools designed specifically for mainframe environments are increasingly central to that transition.
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