Sopra Group has over 1700 dedicated banking sector staff across Europe. Working closely with domestic and global regulators means we are positioned at the cutting edge of banking regulation and change.  Our response to initiatives such as SEPA, Basel II and the new solvency and risk demands of Basel III has been key in helping our clients to ensure compliance and take advantage of new opportunities created by these changes.

In addition, we are investing in emerging mobile banking technologies, assuring their integration with key applications and providing expertise to ensure their usability for an increasingly demanding customer base.

Our Expertise

Sopra Group's experts provide a range of services dedicated to the banking sector including:

  • Consultancy to crystallise business initiatives into successful technology responses
  • Systems Integration services to ensure that ROI in core systems is maximised, and reuse optimised
  • Highly performant banking application solutions from our Evolan Banking Software Suite supported by skilled implementation and migration programmes to minimise risk, as well as strong understanding of local markets to ensure compliance with domestic regulation (such as TCF in the UK)
  • Innovative products and approaches to meeting increasingly complex regulatory reporting demands both locally and globally
  • Development and distribution of technical applications (EAI) to integrate and optimise the use of large banking IT systems
  • Innovative testing approaches to assure consistency of customer experience across channels with a particular specialism in the usability and performance of mobile devices
  • Post-implementation support and cost-effective application outsourcing to ensure benefit realisation and optimise cost of ownership.

Evolan - Sopra Group's Pan-European Banking Software Suite

With over 700 implementations in more than 50 countries, Sopra Group's Evolan Banking Software Suite  is a market leader in key operational areas of banking with proven and established products that support:

  • Lending: covering the whole lending lifecycle from sales and origination through to servicing, debt recovery and litigation, with support for all kinds of loans (both secured and unsecured) on one highly scalable platform, 
  • Regulatory compliance: statutory or financial reporting and risk management
  • Payments systems and methods (fully SEPA compliant)
  • Card management systems
  • Multichannel distribution

Evolan UK

2011 has seen significant expansion of the Evolan business with the launch of Evolan UK. Staffed by experts each offering between 10 and 20 years' experience working with the UK's major financial institutions, the group has overseen the critical initial deployments of the software to support:

  • A high street bank in their replacement of their card management systems
  • A global bank in satisfying Bank of England and FSA regulatory reporting requirements, as part of a worldwide reporting platform provided by Evolan
  • A commercial mortgage servicer to service an increasing portfolio of mortgage assets