Streamlining Your Regulatory Processes with
Smart Tech and Deep Industry Expertise

We combine decades of practical compliance and risk expertise in the banking and financial industry with cutting-edge AI approaches to turn compliance and risk challenges from cost drivers into competitive business advantages.

Where the Industry Stands Today

Most banks and financial institutions still rely on legacy processes and workflow engines that were never designed for today's regulatory complexity or the volume and frequency of data flows, and struggle to keep pace with changing client expectations.

Manual Compliance Review Bottlenecks

Every compliance review of transaction, document, and client structure requires hands-on review — creating delays that scale quickly with volume.

Inconsistency & Human Bias

Manually processing of compliance and risk tasks introduces risk through inconsistent application of rules and standards and generates suboptimal transaction costs.

Lack of Operating Leverage

Growing the business impacts in general the overall compliance and risk processing costs negatively.

Slow Regulatory Adaptation

When regulations and best practice approaches change, manual adaptation takes months — leaving institutions exposed during the transition and at significant risk of costly remediation or repapering.

Nucleus

Our Compliance & Risk Intelligence Engine — an AI-powered platform that integrates automated data processing with human oversight. It validates compliance profiles and information, transactions, documents, and complex structures — pulled from all relevant sources — against compliance and risk standards tailored to your business, in real time.

Modular Intelligence Packages

KYC / AML
Cross Border
Sanctions & Embargo
Tax Compliance
MiFID
More…

Inputs

Compliance Data
KYC questionnaires, profile & structured data, unstructured data such as free-text fields and annotations.
Media
PDFs, images, emails, and other document formats ingested for analysis.
Transactions
Payment flows, securities trades, and other financial activity for monitoring and screening.
News
Adverse media, sanctions updates, and regulatory news feeds for continuous screening.
And more…
Nucleus Nucleus Intelligence Engine

Outputs

Guidance
Actionable, explainable, reproducible and auditable recommendations and compliance signals for your team to review and act on.
Assistance
AI-powered support that helps your team to work faster and more consistently.
Audit Trail
Full traceability of every decision, rule application, and data source for regulatory audits.
Document Intelligence
Automated analysis, classification, and cross-validation of unstructured documents.
And more…

Enterprise Software Tailored To Your Needs

Once Nucleus is integrated, expanding your compliance coverage is straightforward. Add new modules without re-architecting — each one plugs into the same engine.

Add Packages On Demand

Start with the modules you need today and activate additional compliance packages as your regulatory landscape evolves — no migration, no disruption.

Fine-Tuned Together

Every package is configured jointly with your team. Our compliance experts and your specialists calibrate rules, thresholds, and logic to match your organisation's standards and risk appetite.

Continuously Evolving

Nucleus adapts as regulations change. Rule sets are updated, models are retrained, and new best practices are rolled in — keeping you ahead without costly overhauls.

What Happens After Go-Live

Nucleus doesn't stop at deployment. The platform evolves along your business and the best practice and regulatory landscape.

Real-Time Monitoring

Nucleus flags issues automatically — your team focuses on exceptions and high impact cases, not routine checks.

Regulatory Updates

When regulations change and best practices develop, we update the relevant packages — no months of manual rework on your side.

Ongoing Rule Tuning

Your team can adjust thresholds and parameters as the business evolves — within the guardrails the regulation permits.

Expand Without Disruption

Need a new package? Same setup path, same platform — no rip-and-replace required.

What You Gain

01

Accelerated Workflows

Dramatically reduce lead times by automating data extraction, validation, and routing — freeing your team from manual bottlenecks.

02

Boosted Front-Office Productivity

Relationship managers reclaim hours previously lost to back-office tasks, refocusing them into client-facing work that lifts both client satisfaction and drives revenue per manager.

03

Better-Informed Decisions

Real-time data integration across sources gives all your functions in the different lines of defence a complete, up-to-date picture for every decision.

04

E2E Compliance Orchestration

Orchestration provides the flexibility to redesign compliance, risk, and front-office processes — focusing resources where they have the most impact.

Measurable ROI

Once live, improved data quality and streamlined processes deliver measurable value — compounding with every transaction processed.

See Nucleus in Action

Walk through a live scenario to see how Nucleus processes data, applies rules, and generates compliance messages.

Why PQT

&

Decades of Expertise

Our team combines deep knowledge of Swiss and international financial regulations with hands-on compliance experience. Together with PQ Solutions, we bridge the gap between regulatory requirements and cutting-edge AI.

Nucleus

AI Done Right

We don't just automate — we rethink. Our framework leverages state-of-the-art LLMs purpose-built for compliance and risk workflows, not generic off-the-shelf tools.

ETH Zurich Start-up

ETH Zurich Roots

Founded by industry-experienced compliance leaders and top ETH graduates — our engineering and data science expertise is grounded in world-class academic rigour.

The People Behind Nucleus

A multidisciplinary team with backgrounds in law, computer science, data science, and compliance — united by a shared mission to make regulatory processes smarter.

Robert Hönig

Robert Hönig

Head of Engineering

MSc ETH Computer Science

Markus Reinacher

Markus Reinacher

CEO

Master of Law, CIA, MAS ETH, MAS Bankmanagement

Gabriel Larumbe

Gabriel Larumbe

CFO

MA HSG Business Innovation

Vu Nguyen

Vu Nguyen

Head of Product

MSc ETH Computer Science

Anja Schmid

Anja Schmid

Head of Regulatory

BA International Management

Filipe Cunha

Filipe Cunha

Senior AI Engineer

MSc ETH Data Science

Mar Vazquez

Mar Vazquez

Senior AI Engineer

MSc ETH Statistics

Pasquale Jordan

Pasquale Jordan

Full-Stack Engineer

MSc ETH Computer Science

Joppe de Bruin

Joppe de Bruin

AI Engineer

MSc ETH Statistics

Hayri Karadeniz

Hayri Karadeniz

Head AI Compliance Transformation

EMBA Compliance & Digital Transformation

Contact Us

We are located in Zurich, Switzerland. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us via email or phone.

Konradstrasse 12, CH-8005 Zurich