#4: Suptech as a Strategic Institutional Priority

Suptech Broadcast

1 Mar

9th March 2023

With:

| Rafael Gomes (Accenture)

| Oliver Wünsch (Oliver Wyman)

In Session #4, Rafael Gomes (Managing Director, Accenture) and Oliver Wünsch (Partner, Oliver Wyman) join FNA to discuss the structural transformation of supervision. While early-stage Suptech was often "bottom-up"—driven by data scientists in isolated departments—our guests argue that true systemic impact requires a "top-down" institutional mandate.

The discussion provides a pragmatic blueprint for navigating the "Strategy Gap": the distance between having the technology and actually integrating it into the daily supervisory routine. From the delicate "Build vs. Buy" decision to the necessity of fostering a "digital-first" culture among career supervisors, Rafael and Oliver offer a masterclass on how to turn Suptech from a niche technical field into a core institutional competency.

The session covered:

The Strategic Pillars: Identifying the three non-negotiables of a successful strategy: Regulatory Efficiency (doing things faster), Supervisory Effectiveness (finding new risks), and Institutional Agility.
The "Build vs. Buy" Dilemma: A deep dive into the calculus of choice—when to buy "off-the-shelf" solutions for industry best practices versus when to build a "custom-tailored" system for specific local market nuances.
Coordinating the Workflow: Mapping the journey from Data Ingestion (breaking silos) to Analytics (finding signals) and Visualization (making it actionable for the supervisor).
The Talent Trap: How to solve the "Suptech Skills Gap" by upskilling existing supervisors rather than just hiring pure-play data scientists who lack regulatory context.
Risk & Mitigation: Addressing the challenges of "Black Box" algorithms and the legal risks of automated decision-making in a high-stakes regulatory environment.
Success Stories: Real-world examples of authorities that have successfully scaled Suptech from small experiments to national-scale utilities.