Agentic AI in Action: Accelerating Software Delivery for Financial Services

A global investment bank set out to modernize its legacy platforms, aiming to reduce time-to-market, improve operational efficiency, and free engineering teams from manual, low-value work. With rapidly evolving client expectations and growing regulatory complexity, the bank needed a future-ready, AI-led approach to development.
The institution was challenged by slow delivery timelines, high development costs, and an engineering workforce tied up with repetitive documentation and service mapping tasks. Legacy SOA platforms added further complexity and slowed innovation velocity. 
Automate backend and frontend development 
To address these challenges, Ascendion deployed agentic AI, a suite of autonomous engineering agents designed to streamline platform modernization and amplify development outcomes.
Automating UI/backend code generation

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Business Impact

Measurable Impact Across the Board

The deployment of agentic AI yielded significant results:

70% faster time-to-market, reducing delivery timelines from 18 to 12 months 

Up to 50% in cost savings, driven by automation and self-service tools 

65% increase in engineering productivity, allowing teams to focus on high-value work

Freed from repetitive documentation tasks, developers were able to accelerate innovation and deliver business value faster. The initiative proved that intelligent agents could radically transform traditional software delivery models in financial services. 

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