Every year the finance sector accounts for around 30% of Sopra Group’s turnover; this has been the case ever since the company opened its doors in 1968.
Throughout Europe there are over 1500 Sopra Group employees working solely on banking sector projects and the Group has been involved in almost every inter-bank project in the sector (Bafi, Euro, Bâle II, BCE, SURFI, SEPA, etc.).
It is therefore a strategically important sector for Sopra Group, especially, as being instrumental in the current wave of globalisation and development of new methods of information exchange, it is an area which is at the heart of technological and functional innovation.
Providing extensive expertise
Sopra Group has structured its expertise so that it can form global partnerships demonstrating its capability and commitment to handling major re-engineering projects affecting organisations and their banking systems.
This expertise rests at the heart of a large spectrum of offerings dedicated to the banking and finance sectors:
- consultancy on organisational structures or developing strategies and ways to apply them,
- providing application solutions (Evolan range), which have become benchmarks in the sector through their broad distribution and the future-proof guarantee they offer,
- development and distribution of technical applications (EAI) to integrate and optimise the use of large banking IT systems,
- systems integration services to ensure that a commitment to quality is provided during the management of IT implementation projects.,
- outsourcing services conceived for the integrated banking offering Evolan Pack.
This expertise also takes the form of products tailored to specific activities in operational areas of banking:
- loans : over the whole credit lifecycle, from sale to debt recovery and litigation,
- Regulation compliance :statutory or financial reporting (IFRS) and risk control,
- keeping accounts and total invoicing management,
- multichannel distribution,
- card management systems
- electronic payment methods (SEPA, etc.)
- customer relations
- capital markets
Involved well upstream in all reforms affecting the banking environment (IAS/IFRS accounting reforms, Surfi monitoring, Basle II risks, SEPA payment methods, etc.), Sopra Group has developed extensive expertise in this professional field. This specialist expertise combined with methodological expertise developed via projects to upgrade its own Evolan solutions and the projects of its major customers is available to all its customers.
The dual capability of integrator and solutions publisher allows Sopra Group to promote itself as a genuine partner for the banking sector, capable of handling the challenges facing this industry.
The following banks have chosen to work with Sopra Group
Société Générale, Groupe Crédit Agricole-Crédit Lyonnais, BNP-Paribas, Groupe Banques Populaires-Caisses d’Epargne, Groupe CIC-Crédit Mutuel, CCF-HSBC, Groupe Caisse des Dépôts, CGED, Abbey National France
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