Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory

Successful M&A is about the ability to identify hidden risks and make the most of opportunities. With us, you will reduce investment risk to a minimum.

We will help you reduce investment risks and uncover hidden value.

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Professional services for all phases

We will guide you through all phases of a merger or acquisition of your company. We have in-depth expertise or focus on specific domains in the most critical M&A processes.

Deep insight into organizations

Battle tested due diligence methodology

Hands-on approach

Save as much as 80 % of the necessary workload before due diligence

PRE-MERGER

Data Consolidation & Anonymization

Preparation of the analytical data set of the due diligence purposes and providing necessary information about future synergies.

Legacy Data Quality Assessment

Detailed assessment of current data quality level for the future detailed planning of data migration. Remediation actions included.

Customer Profiling & Portfolio Overlap

Understanding the profile of the merged portfolios of the two banks and overlap between the portfolios.

Target Segmentation Clustering

Customer segmentation based on the consolidated information from the two merged entities (including consolidated customer exposure).

Branch Product Portfolio Analysis

Understanding of the existing geographical structure of the two customer portfolios.

Resolve regulatory compliance - soon after the legal merge

POST-MERGER DAY 1

Intermediary Consolidated Regulatory Reporting

Resolving regulatory reporting compliance even without integrated IT landscape might be mundane job to do. We have done it before.

Data Migration Approach

Depending on the overall migration approach (phased, big bang), necessary strategy have to be elaborated also for data migration. We do have plenty of experiences and accelerators.

We will guide you through a smooth data migration

POST-MERGER INTEGRATION

Data Migration

End-to-end data migration including source data analysis, understanding of the target system needs and implementation of the transformation rules/procedures.

Data Quality Issues Resolution

Automated resolution of the identified data quality issues and/or transparent reporting and input for the manual cleansing activities.

Migration Reconciliation

Comparison of the financial and non-financial figures and dimensions between legacy world and target core-banking ecosystem.

Customer Consolidation

Target consolidation of the customer portfolios of the two merged banks.

Business Intelligence Adoption

Adjustments to the BI and Data Warehousing ecosystem (mainly for the purpose of regulatory reporting).

Fast and smooth M&A

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Enterprise Operations Due Diligence

Our industry experts help investors to perform detailed on-site reviews of company operations in order to properly evaluate risks and opportunities associated with the planned investment.

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Enterprise IT Architecture Due Diligence

Adastra is your one stop partner for the conversion of existing IT ecosystems into the modern, cloud-first, secure, stable, and scalable solutions tailored to provide your business with maximal competitive advantage.

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Data Migration

Are you planning to implement a new information system or make a fundamental change in your existing system? Do you need to access information about your customers, products and processes in a centralized database?

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Master Data Management

To successfully carry out a Master Data Management project, a complex arrangement of activities have to be carried out across multiple channels and platforms in both the IT and business sectors.

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Data Catalog

Welcome to the new age where a data catalog grows and improves automatically.

Our Tools

Data Migration Engine

Management console for very controlled execution of the data migration. Prompt and transparent overview of migration success, erroneous migration records, suggestions for the remediation actions.

Customer Consolidation Engine

Robust platform for the customer match and merge, consolidation, unification and mastering. Predefined matching and merging rules and great kick-started for either initial customer consolidation or target consolidation during the post-merger integration.

FinReCo: Reconciliation Engine

Real-time reporting of reconciliation differences between legacy and target world. Supporting the (not only financial) reconciliation by automation of the reporting.

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Data Quality Framework

Self-learning, outlier detection, duplicate detection, standardization rules, issue resolution, change notification, detection of the data patterns, end-less variety of the expressions and issue resolution mechanisms.

Our Partners

Case Studies

Equa Bank clients were fully migrated to Raiffeisenbank in 12 hours

When Equa Bank was being mergedintoRaiffeisenbank in November 2022, we handled the migration of Equa Bank’s client data into Raiffeisenbank’s CRM system. We also ensured the client master data was propagated to the bank’s core systems.  

hours instead of 3 weeks – shorter live migration thanks to 10 months of testing and agile development

subjects to migrate

people - each with 200 attributes, added to Raiffeisenbank’s client base after the acquisition of Equa Bank

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Automatic categorization for 98.5% of card transactions

With millions of clients conducting millions of operations every day, the bank needed to automatically assign a unique category to every banking transaction (card...

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Just-in-time loan offers: a 10x higher conversion rate

Together with the bank, we used several years’ worth of transaction descriptions and a number of transactions of a specific type to identify a...

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An increase in impressions among the target group: a 10x bigger target group

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