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The SME Finance Operating System.

From selling products to solving the customer's problem. Information becomes intelligence, and intelligence becomes advantage.

01Run the loan business on one disciplined system.
02Upgrade the risk discipline. Not the wrapper.
03A partner on your side of the table for the whole journey.
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Practitioners who have run lending books. 100+ institutions across four continents.
Meridian Steel Industries GmbH
Manufacturing · Bavaria · Investment Grade
RAF Green
Total Exposure
€48.2M
5 active facilities
Client RAROC
17.4%
Above hurdle
Through-the-cycle PD
0.82%
Rating BBB
EWS Score
2 / 10
Stable
Risk Appetite Limits
Manufacturing
62%
Single name
48%
EUR exposure
71%
Tenor > 5y
84%
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Sector PD migration neutral. Manufacturing benchmark unchanged.
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This is what Client 360 looks like inside Q-Lana. Every facility, every limit, every signal — in one view.
We know the work

If you run SME or corporate lending, you already know where the friction sits.

The SME loan portfolio is still considered too risky to grow.

The risk profiles are largely qualitative. The Risk Appetite Statement is a PDF on a shared drive.

Risk models and rating models exist, but the teams do not trust the results.

The transformation roadmap quietly stalled somewhere between configuration and integration.

The “monitoring process” starts the day the client stops paying.

We have sat in those rooms. We know which fix moves the needle.

How we engage

Three doors. One way of working.

Q-Lana is not a single product on a price list. It is three serious commitments. Each one solves a different shape of problem. Each one starts with a conversation. Pick the door that matches where you are.

Offering 01

Loan Management Plus.

Run the loan business on one disciplined system. The entry point to the operating system.

The platform that replaces the spreadsheet, the workflow tool, the rating sheet, the covenant tracker, and the seven-tab credit memo with a single environment that does all of it. Configurable to your workflow, not the other way around. Cloud-based or on-premise. Multi-currency, multi-product. Corporate and SME. Every tool the institution actually uses, in one place.

Banks compare Q-Lana to loan management systems. Good. That is the door: implement the lending process first, on the same data foundation and the same platform, then grow step by step into the full operating system. Nothing gets thrown away. We have run it inside more than a hundred institutions. We know what breaks at month three. We know what the credit committee will ask for in month nine.

Workflow that replicates yours, not ours End-to-end lifecycle, gate to gate Risk & analytical tools embedded Cloud or on-premise Multi-currency, multi-product Corporate & SME loans
Inside the architecture
01 Acquisition 02 Pre-Due Diligence 03 Due Diligence 04 Approval 05 Pre-Disbursement 06 Monitoring 07 Collection 08 Special Servicing CROSS-CUTTING · COVENANT MANAGEMENT CROSS-CUTTING · PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT Eight phases. Two threads. One platform.
Risk Hypothesis Canvas Rating & Scoring Models Expected Loss & RAROC Early Warning Systems Covenants & Vintage Analysis
Offering 02

Advisory.

Upgrade the risk discipline. Not the wrapper.

Some institutions are not ready to replace the system. They are ready to fix the discipline that the system is supposed to enforce. We sit with the credit team and rebuild what the analytics actually do. The output is sharper credit memos, fewer surprise downgrades, a portfolio that knows itself.

This is the engagement that pays for itself in NPL avoidance. It is also the easiest one to defend at the audit committee.

Risk Hypothesis Canvas Rating & Scoring Expected Loss & RAROC calibration Early Warning Systems Covenant Monitoring Vintage Analysis
Inside Risk Analytics
Offering 03

The Transformation Partnership.

We sit on your side of the table for the whole journey.

A multi-year alignment of interest. Not a project. A partnership in which the strategy, the platform, the AI integration, and the operating model are co-built. Through cycles of diagnose, configure, integrate, operate. We bring what we know. We absorb what you know. The institution gets sharper with every cycle.

This is for institutions that have decided digital transformation is not optional and want a partner that has actually done it before.

Diagnose Configure Integrate Operate AI integration, where it earns its place Multi-year, multi-cycle
Talk about a partnership
CYCLE repeats with the institution STAGE 01 Diagnose STAGE 02 Configure STAGE 03 Integrate STAGE 04 Operate

Each starts with a conversation. None starts with a procurement form.

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Getting started

Adopt in steps, or as a whole.

Loan Management Plus is where most institutions start. Every step after it runs on the same data foundation and the same platform, so nothing is rebuilt and nothing is thrown away.

Loan
Management Plus
+ Pillars
& RAROC
+ AI &
Interfaces
The SME Finance
Operating System
The lending lifecycle live on one system Appetite and pricing operational Copilots and Client 360 at work The compounding institution

Side doors exist: the ESG tool, monitoring, covenant management. Every entry lands on the same data foundation, and the flywheel starts on day one.

Why Q-Lana

What you get when the partner has actually run the business.

01

Practitioners. Not consultants.

The team that designed the platform has run lending businesses, written rating models, calibrated covenants, defended decisions in credit committee. The seat you are sitting in is a seat we have sat in.

02

Hundred-plus institutions of experience.

Across four continents. Commercial banks, development finance institutions, microfinance, specialized lenders, impact funds. The pattern library is built from real deployments, not from theory.

03

A platform that operates daily.

Not a tool that sits in a corner. The system the credit team opens every morning. The number on the screen is the number that was governed.

04

Long-term partners. Not vendors.

We stay through the valley. The transformation lands because someone keeps showing up after the kickoff celebration ends. The relationship is multi-year by design, not by accident.

The financial institutions that will lead in SME and corporate lending will be the ones that turn information into intelligence first. If you take SME and corporate finance seriously, we are the partner worth a conversation.

A note from the founder

Many banks are about to make the same mistake at the same time. They will look at the SME relationship manager. Expensive role. Hard to measure. Uneven in quality. They will conclude that AI is the answer.

They will be partly right. The work an RM resents, the paperwork, the policy checks, the file processing, is exactly what AI does well. Hand it over.

But the conversation that gets the borrower to tell you what is really going on, the read on the factory floor, the judgement on character: those belong to people. Always will. Q-Lana is the operating system built for the bank that knows the difference.

Christian Ruehmer
Co-Founder, Q-Lana
Three ways forward

Information becomes intelligence. Three ways to start.

Talk to a practitioner

Thirty minutes. Senior to senior.

No pitch deck. A working session on where your operating model leaks today and what changes when the platform takes over. Lending lifecycle, risk discipline, transformation: pick the entry point that matters.

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Drill into the disciplines.

Lending Process Customer Centricity Risk Analytics Data Management
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