In fact, in 2013 and 2014 there were no selections, large or small.
Prior to this, Oracle FSS won a notable order from specialist
institution, Lease plan, in 2009. SAP had a lending deal from a niche offshoot of a mid-tier domestic player in the same year and there was a handful of treasury selections. SAP’s Loans Management was taken by one of the large banks in 2010, there was a win for Oracle FSS at a smaller institution, and Norway- based CBA gained a trade- related deal at ABN Amro as the bank sought to rebuild its international operations, running from ahub in the Netherlands. In 2011, Oracle FSS built on its Dutch presence, with two of its three deals in Western Europe coming in the Netherlands. AzerTurk Bank awarded contract to Oracle FSS in 2015.
Thaler/Sopra Banking Platform is relatively strongin the
Dutch market, having originated from neighbouring Belgium, and Rabobank is a heavy user. It changed hands in early 2012, from Callataÿ & Wouters to Sopra, and had added just one new deal to its Western European tally in the previous year, NIBC in the Netherlands. In new ownership, the system had a relatively good 2012, with two additional deals in this country. It added 1 deal in 2015.
Nordic region
There is a relatively small number of large to mid-tier banks in each Nordic country. Where there are large clutches of small banks, such as Norway’s Sparbanken, these tend to use service bureaux. There is a small number of such bureaux in each country.
In Denmark, Danske Bank and Nordea have around 67
percent of the total market by assets. There are slightly under 130 other financial institutions.
Sweden is an efficient country from a banking systems perspective and, as with its Nordic neighbours, there is a high level of straight-through processing(STP) and online banking, in its different forms, plus other innovations such as e-invoicing and making credit applications within retail stores. There have been some new banks (online banks as well as moves by established securities firms and credit market companies to become banks) and increased competition. The country has somewhat morethan100 banks, across commercial banks, foreignbanks, savings banks and two co-operativebanks. The four big banks are all commercial banks: Swedbank, Handelsbanken, Nordea and SEB. The fifth largest is Danish player, Danske Bank, which made an acquisition of Ostgota Enskilda Bank in the late 1990s.
Swedbank tends to provide technical solutions to the numerous, independent savings banks (there have been some
210
mergers in this community). DNB, the largest bank in Norway, has been going through
some significant changes in the last year or so, including signing out source deals for parts of its IT with HCL and TCS, somewhat reducing its traditional dependence on Evry (EDB, as was), which has a long-standing back office out source business in the Nordic region, largely based on in-housedeveloped systems. Here, it claims around120 users.
The Sparebank/Sparbanken in Norway are supported by
the EDB/Evry platform but with some signs that this might change, with a few of the larger banks known to be evaluating other options. Norway’s second largest bank, Sparebank1 cancelled part of its Evry contract in 2011, for strategic development, with this having been largely around building and renewing the core banking and other applications on an ongoing basis. For the existing core system and surrounding applications, at least for the time- being, Sparebank1’s relationship remains in place with Evry for application management, support and production.
Other hosted options in the Nordic region include: BBS/
Nets in Norway; Swedbank, CGI/Logica, Tie to in Sweden; BEC, Bank Data, SDC and others in Denmark; and Samlink, Tieto, Crosskey in Finland. fact, most bureaux are struggling themselves with old systems and a few have tried and failed to replace their core systems (EDB/Evry with Flexcube, Novit with TCS/FNS’s Bancs, in particular). The offerings of the bureaux are often costly, inflexible and there is sometimes considerable user dissatisfaction. The bureaux themselves constitute potential customers for system suppliers, as do the individual banks.
The dissatisfaction has seen some chopping and changing
of bureaux. In particular, there was the migration of80+NorwegianruralbankstotheDanishservice bureau of SDC, with cut over completed in early 2006. This followed the decision taken a couple of years earlier by the Norwegian banks’ IT services subsidiary, Terra-Gruppen, to move from EDB. The SDC bureau runs on the system that is now sold by FIS as Core bank. The more modern nature of SDC’s system was cited as a key reason for the move, along with price.
EDB did, however, retain three of the Norwegian rural
banks, which decided against going the SDC route. And in 2012, Handelsbanken Norway, which has 49 branches, extended its relationship with Evry, signing a five-year contract worth €670 million.
More recently, during 2013, Norwegian ethical bank,
Cultura Bank, chose SDC, moving from a small local system (another Norwegian bank, Ya Bank, was left as the only user of that local system, which it owned).
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