The need for specialist partners who can understand, mitigate and share the risks involved has never been greater.  

Sopra Group has over 22 years of experience in supporting Financial Services organisations as well as considerable expertise in many key current financial services issues such as International Accounting Standards and International Financial Reporting Standards, Depolarisation, MiFID and SEPA, meaning that we are ideally positioned to help you achieve your goals.

Firstly, we understand your industry.  Our Consultancy Team brings many years' experience in Financial Services.  They will work with you to manage change, optimise processes and ensure your technology vision and architectures are fully geared to delivering business value well into the future.

Information is the cornerstone of every business and the way in which it can be unleashed, manipulated and shared is a key factor in managing risk, ensuring competitive advantage and delivering a better customer experience.

Our Business Intelligence Services deliver value, both in response to regulatory changes such as Basel II, SOX, MiFID or SEPA and in building a better profile of clients, prospects and the efficiency and effectiveness of your own operation.

We help you deliver against expectations.  Business pressures demand improved returns on existing investments and greater agility in responding to business change.

The entire technology estate and the way in which it is upgraded and supported must also be reviewed.  Rip and replace is rarely an option.  The smart deployment of new service oriented architectures and supporting infrastructure which exploit the workhorse systems and which sustain your business, whilst providing dynamic front ends and "plug and play" dexterity, are the way ahead.  The rewards for those that get IT right the first time are huge.

Sourcing models are key.  Outsourcing and co-sourcing have a role to play in meeting revenue growth or cost reduction objectives.  Sopra Group's Systems Integration division and Application Outsourcing division has been developing, integrating and supporting applications on behalf of leading banks and insurance companies for over 22 years.  Our flexibility in incorporating onsite, offsite and offshore delivery models provides a world-class and considerably de-risked delivery proposition: a local partner who understands your business with a flexible, low-cost and proven delivery capability.

Our expertise and ethos of excellence in service provision help forge closer links between business, operations and technology.  This is further supported by our highly innovative Testing Solutions Business, which provides clarity of shared objectives between business and IT.  This way, we ensure that solutions are not only fit for use, but also fit for purpose, and, by deploying Risk Based techniques at the earliest stages in the lifecycle, we provide the assurance that key business and technical risks are mitigated.

Our Testing Specialists are working with several of the UK and Ireland's leading Banks, Insurers and Investment Houses to optimise test processes, exploit tools automation, define and manage major programmes and establish Centres of Testing Excellence within each enterprise.  Results are dramatic in terms of cost containment and reduction, increase in quality and levels of business and customer satisfaction.

We help you protect your assets – your systems and your reputation - from internal and external threats.  Our specialist Information Security business was established by financial services specialists.  We ensure that governance models are robust and will stand up to both external audit and regulatory compliance review.  We partner leading vendors to design and implement enterprise security solutions and our GCHQ-accredited professionals provide ethical hacking and other services to ensure the effectiveness of your information security implementation.

Our Efficient Programme Delivery approach provides pragmatic methods to ensure business buy-in and support, and practical ways to increase 'certainty of delivery'.