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September 3, 2026

Qubika Strengthens Its Position in Financial Services with Databricks Specialization

Qubika has earned the Databricks Financial Services Specialization, recognizing our track record of building secure, governed data foundations and production AI for banks, fintechs, lenders, payments companies, and financial infrastructure providers on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.

We’re proud to announce that Qubika has earnt the Databricks Financial Services Specialization, recognizing our track record of designing and delivering advanced data and AI solutions for financial services organizations on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.

The specialization builds on Qubika’s status as a Databricks Gold Partner and reflects our experience helping banks and financial institutions, fintechs, lenders, payments companies, and financial infrastructure providers modernize complex data environments, strengthen governance and security, enable real-time intelligence, and put AI into production.

Financial services organizations face a particularly demanding data challenge. They need to move quickly and deliver better digital experiences while operating in environments where security, data quality, governance, auditability, and regulatory compliance are fundamental requirements.

At the same time, AI is creating new opportunities across fraud and risk management, lending, financial analysis, customer experiences, and operational automation.

Qubika helps organizations bring these priorities together by building secure, governed data foundations that can support analytics, machine learning, and production AI at scale.

Proven experience across financial services

The specialization reflects Qubika’s extensive work across banking, fintech, lending, payments, financial infrastructure, and other areas of financial services.

Recent engagements include:

  • For a leading U.S. banking institution powering embedded finance, Qubika built a modern lakehouse on Databricks and Azure, creating a scalable and governed data foundation to support analytics, operational reporting, and future AI use cases.
  • For a leading digital lending company, Qubika supported the modernization of its data and machine learning ecosystem, including migration from Dremio to Databricks and the modernization of model-serving capabilities. The work is helping establish a more scalable foundation for analytics, machine learning, and AI.
  • For a U.S. fintech focused on retirement and financial planning, Qubika built the data foundations behind a new generation of AI-powered financial experiences, including intelligent tools that support information gathering, financial plan creation, and advisor workflows.

These projects reflect the range of challenges financial services organizations are addressing with modern data platforms — from large-scale data engineering and platform modernization to machine learning, real-time decisioning, and AI-powered workflows.

Recognized as a leader across financial services, Databricks, and data engineering

Qubika’s work is also recognized by independent industry analysts.

AIM Research has named Qubika a Leader across three separate evaluations:

AI Service Providers for Financial Services, recognizing Qubika’s ability to help financial services organizations apply AI across customer experiences, operations, automation, and other high-value use cases.

Databricks Service Providers, highlighting Qubika’s capabilities in Databricks migrations, proprietary accelerators and IP, production AI and machine learning, and senior-led delivery.

Data Engineering Service Providers, recognizing Qubika’s strength in building and modernizing the data foundations required for advanced analytics and AI.Together, these recognitions reflect the breadth of capabilities required to transform financial services.Organizations increasingly need more than expertise in a single technology or use case. They need partners that can modernize core data environments, implement platforms such as Databricks, and turn those foundations into secure, production-ready AI solutions.That combination of financial services expertise, data engineering, Databricks capabilities, and applied AI is at the heart of Qubika’s approach.

Building trusted data foundations for financial AI

Financial services companies generate enormous volumes of transactional, customer, market, and operational data.

But having more data does not automatically translate into better decisions.

Legacy architectures, fragmented data sources, and inconsistent governance can make it difficult to create a trusted enterprise view of that information. These challenges become even more significant as organizations introduce AI systems that depend on reliable, well-governed data.

A unified data and AI platform can help financial services organizations:

  • Create trusted and governed views of customer and transactional data.
  • Modernize legacy data warehouses and analytics environments.
  • Process high-volume and real-time financial data.
  • Strengthen lineage, access controls, and regulatory governance.
  • Operationalize machine learning models for areas such as risk and fraud.
  • Build AI agents that automate financial and operational workflows.
  • Apply AI while maintaining the security, traceability, and observability required in regulated environments.

By combining Databricks expertise with deep knowledge of financial services workflows, Qubika helps organizations move beyond isolated analytics and AI initiatives toward enterprise data foundations capable of supporting continuous innovation.

Deepening our collaboration with Databricks

The Financial Services Specialization marks another milestone in Qubika’s growing relationship with Databricks.

As a Databricks Gold Partner, Qubika has more than 250 professionals with Databricks certifications, spanning data engineering, analytics, machine learning, and generative AI.

Our team also includes professionals who have reached the elite level of becoming Databricks Champions, reflecting the depth of technical expertise within Qubika’s Databricks practice.

Qubika has invested extensively in building Databricks-specific accelerators and IP designed to help organizations move faster, including solutions for governance, migrations, data engineering, and production AI.

Combined with our industry specializations, these capabilities allow Qubika to help financial services organizations move from fragmented data estates toward governed, AI-ready platforms — and from early AI experimentation toward production systems capable of operating at scale.

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Andreas Fast

By Andreas Fast

Director of Finance Solutions

Andreas Fast is the Director of Finance Solutions at Qubika, where he creates strategies for top financial institutions, including Experian, Verifone, Santander, and Ripple, serving over 100 million customers daily. He leads Qubika’s Finance Studio, specializing in scalable, data-driven, and AI-powered financial services.

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