Van den Berg

What Van den Berg does

Van den Berg, operating commercially under the Foconis brand ("Foconis - for Finance"), is a privately held German software group serving the financial industry. The group was formed at year-end 2023 by merging four predecessor companies into three wholly-owned operating subsidiaries: Foconis Analytics GmbH (compliance, data warehouse, BI), Foconis Trading GmbH (capital markets and trading), and Foconis Payment GmbH (payment processing), each tracing its roots back to between 1986 and 2000. Headquartered in Herzogenrath with additional offices in Vilshofen an der Donau, Landau in der Pfalz, Hamburg, Aachen, Zürich, and Luxembourg, the group employs approximately 400 people and serves more than 650 financial institutions, primarily German and DACH-region banks and savings banks (Sparkassen).

The platform is organized around five registered flagship products: Foconis-ZAK (control process and capital market compliance covering ISM, IKT, BAIT, MaRisk, DORA, GDPR, WpHG), Foconis-DECIDE (end-to-end pre-trade to post-trade capital markets software), Foconis FPH/Payment Hub (payment transaction processing including instant payments, SEPA, SWIFT, EBICS), Foconis-GDix (data warehouse, BI, workflow management), and Foconis-MAX (order management for electronic securities trading). These flagships are extended by numerous modules covering compliance, data integrity, process quality, sales support, and information management, with deep integrations into core banking systems (ATRUVIA), identity (IDnow), credit bureau (SCHUFA), and payment/communication standards (FIX, SWIFT CBPR+, SEPA Instant, EBICS, RTGS). Certifications include ISO 27001 and IDW PS951 alignment.

The business model combines subscription/SaaS and on-premise licensing, fixed-price annual contracts, usage-based pricing (pay-per-use for consent management), and managed services including a 24/7 SWIFT Service Bureau (operating since 2007 with two redundant data centers), EBICS multi-bank services, and Payment as a Service (PaaS). Distribution is sales-led and direct to enterprise financial institutions in the DACH region, supported by professional services for implementation and ongoing support. Revenue is not publicly disclosed, and the company is privately held with no external investors or public listing referenced in available data.

Name

Van den Berg

Legal name

Foconis GmbH

Website

https://vdb.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Van den Berg (Foconis Group) is a privately held German software group serving 650+ banks and savings banks with five flagship products spanning regulatory compliance, capital markets trading, payment processing, business intelligence, and order management, distributed across seven DACH offices.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Herzogenrath

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices7 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Software Licensing and Subscriptions: The company offers its software solutions with various licensing models including subscription-based pricing, fixed-price annual contracts, and affordable subscription options for services such as inactive customer management. Solutions are available as SaaS (cloud-based) or on-premise deployment.
2. Professional Services: Includes expert consulting, project management, and support services for implementation, integration, and ongoing operational support. Services support flexible adaptation to regulatory requirements including MiFID II and Basel III.
3. Managed Services / Service Bureau: Provides SWIFT Service Bureau operations (24/7 since 2007 with two redundant data centers), EBICS multibank services, and Payment as a Service (PaaS) for scalable payment processing.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Van den Berg offers an easy solution for processing payment transactions to the financial industry, delivered through its Foconis group software portfolio. Its offerings cover payment transaction processing, capital market compliance (BAIT/MaRisk/DORA/MiFID II), securities trading, financial data management, and business intelligence, sold primarily as on-premise and subscription-based software to banks, savings banks, brokers, exchanges, and payment service providers.

Product overview

Foconis is an innovative software group for the financial industry offering a platform-plus-modules architecture built around five flagship products. The flagship suite includes: Foconis-ZAK (control process and capital market compliance system), Foconis-DECIDE (end-to-end financial market processes from Pre-Trade to Post-Trade), Foconis FPH/Payment Hub (intelligent payment processing), Foconis-GDix (process management and Business Intelligence), and Foconis-MAX (Order Management System for electronic securities trading). These flagship systems serve as the foundation for numerous specialized modules addressing Compliance (ISM controls, securities controls, whistleblowing, GDPR), Data Integrity (mass data changes, fund controls, mergers), Trading (front office, risk management, position management, clearing), Payment (instant payments, online banking, SWIFT, EBICS), Process Quality (workflow management, complaint management, online processes), Information Management (intranet), and Sales Support (customer potential analysis, distribution reports, planning). The company serves banks, savings banks, and financial industry companies with approximately 400 employees across 7 locations in Germany, Switzerland, and Luxembourg.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Foconis-ZAK®: Führendes Kontrollprozess- und Kapitalmarkt-Compliance System - leading control process and capital market compliance system for banks and financial institutions
• Foconis-DECIDE
• Foconis FPH (Payment hub)
• Foconis-GDix
• Foconis-MAX

Products and services

• Foconis-ZAK

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduced manual effort through automated control activities
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration14 records

AI capability7 records

Feature5 records

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Atruvia: Atruvia is the IT service provider for the German cooperative banking sector (Volksbanken/VR-Banken) and is a direct competitor to Foconis Analytics and Trading products in the German Sparkassen/cooperative market.
• PPI AG: PPI AG provides consulting and software for German banks across payments, securities, and regulatory reporting, making it a direct specialist competitor to Foconis Payment, Trading, and Analytics offerings.
• msg: msg is a German-based IT services and software group serving banks and insurance companies with solutions spanning core banking, compliance, and payments, directly overlapping Foconis's product footprint.

Broad incumbents

• SAP Fioneer: SAP Fioneer offers banking and financial services software spun out of SAP, providing cloud-native core banking, lending, and compliance solutions that compete with Foconis's banking software portfolio.
• Finastra: Finastra provides capital markets, lending, and treasury software to banks globally and overlaps with Foconis Trading's DECIDE platform in the order management, risk, and post-trade space.
• Temenos: Temenos is a global banking software vendor offering core banking, compliance, and digital channels at much larger scale, competing for the same bank IT budget that Foconis addresses in Germany.
• Murex: Murex is a leading capital markets trading, risk, and post-trade platform used by large investment banks, directly comparable to Foconis DECIDE for capital markets workflows.
• Avaloq (NEC Software): Avaloq, now part of NEC, provides wealth management and core banking software with strong European bank coverage and overlaps with Foconis Trading in capital markets and compliance.

Emerging players

• Thought Machine: Thought Machine is a cloud-native core banking vendor gaining traction with European banks, representing an emerging competitive threat to legacy on-premise specialists like Foconis.

Regional players

• Fiducia & GAD (now Atruvia): Pre-merger Fiducia & GAD was the central IT partner for the German cooperative banking group; the merged entity Atruvia serves as the dominant in-house IT provider, competing with Foconis for adjacent, non-core workloads.

Market position

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/foconis-group
• Instagraminstagram.com/foconis4finance

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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