Banking, Finance & Insurance

The health crisis has accelerated the conversion of consumers to digital technology and encouraged uses such as online account opening and credit granting.
Since the Paris climate agreement, financial authorities have sought to redirect capital flows towards sustainable investments and integrate ESG criteria into risk management.
With the digital transformation now complete, the challenge for banks is to become the reference platform for online financial services. The Open Banking approach is essential to achieve this objective.
In parallel, after Basel III, financial institutions are concerned about SFDR compliance, where the collection, traceability and analysis of non-financial ESG data represent a real technological challenge.
Market Trends
Post-crisis financial regulation has been considerably strengthened in recent years. The consequence for banks has been提高管理透明度和监管reforms imposing a stricter framework (Basel II, Basel III, IFRS9, RGPD, SEPA).creased. In parallel, new DSP2 type directives favour the emergence of competition (aggregators or payment initiators).
The Basel 3 standards, which should enter into force gradually between 2022 and 2027, are generating an overload in Tier1 capital (MRC) of 3.6% compared to previous standards.
Challenges:
- Optimize compliance and back-office costs
- Deploy cybersecurity policies
- Protecting bank data
Banks are capitalizing on technology and digital technology to support new uses, develop new services and provide a fluid and intuitive customer experience. In particular, the use of mobile applications is widespread for all banking services.
Only four banks in the American Top 50 offer a Live Chat service. Yet, the Millennium generation is three times more likely to use self-service than it is to contact the customer service.
Challenges:
- Adapt Legacy to the Digital Age
- Fluidify interactions between the physical and digital (phygital) worlds
- Modernize transaction systems
New technologies such as Cloud, artificial intelligence, and Blockchain constitute a major challenge for banks: predictive marketing solutions to build customer loyalty, productivity gains with the implementation of robots, use of Blockchains to secure transactions…
More than 75 banks have joined the Interbank Information Network (IIN) developed by JP Morgan to speed up international financial transactions thanks to blockchain.
Challenges:
- Have the right infrastructure to implement innovation
- Successful industrialization of POCs (Proof of Concept) and innovation from Labs
- Collaborate on a long-term basis with Fintechs
ALTEN VALUE PROPOSITION
Functional sectors
covered by ALTEN

Retail Banking

Regulatory compliance

Investment banking software deployment

Insurance
Our Success Stories
Mobile and ultra-smart, the “Digital natives” generation is leading the banking sector in making deep-seated changes to the customer relation and associated services. ALTEN is the leading partner in Digital UX design for one of the main French banks for the development of new innovative functions.
The financial crisis of 2007-2009 updated a certain number of shortfalls in the approaches of regulatory capital based on internal rating-based models (IRB) of credit risk. ALTEN supports a global banking leader in the development of IRB analysis engines with a Big Data approach (on Hadoop platform), in accordance with the new Basel III agreements.
The fight against money laundering and the funding of terrorism, combined with regulatory pressure is forcing financial institutions to review their priorities. Their anti-money laundering system must be extremely effective in order to limit fraud, but also to avoid any sanctions from the competent authorities. One of the leading insurance companies has asked ALTEN to develop its risk analysis model.
Technology is revolutionizing the insurance industry and customers are increasingly putting business process automation and User experience at the core of their digital expectations. ALTEN Italy sets up a Test factory to support the digital transformation projects of a world leader in the insurance sector.
OUR CLIENTS
Bank
汇丰集团,法国巴黎银行(BNP Paribas)集团,法国农业信贷银行Groupe, Société Générale Groupe, BPCE Groupe, Intesa Sanpaolo SPA…
Insurance
AXA Groupe, CNP…
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