Industries

The Sutherland Banking and Financial Services Practice

Financial Services companies in every segment are under intense pressure to remain profitable. Customer expectations continue to increase as industry leaders face cost challenges. Sutherland Global Services offers a BPO model that integrates contact center and back-office processes. Delivery options include North American onshore, work at home, offshore or “blended” service delivery via our facilities in Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Egypt, India, Mexico, Philippines, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and United States.

Sutherland's services for the Banking and Finance industry include:

Application Processing

Manage end-to-end Account set up Process for deposit application sourced by the client on the client core banking system. Deploy imaging and work flow processes to streamline operations and reduce error rates.

Consumer Lending Operations

Design, Document & Implement systems for entire spectrum of lending operations.

Develop analytical scorecards – application and behavioral

  • Manage the entire application processing system including credit underwriting.
  • Manage the entire customer service process including building IVRs. Right shoring processes to manage costs efficiently and bring significant productivity and process improvements.

Account Receivable Management (ARM

Platform based offering providing cost & performance efficiency through scale, right-shoring and multiple language capabilities.

  • Build collection strategies based on customer profile, vintage, collateral and past behavior.
  • Drive efficiencies through domain driven analytics, behavioral scorecards and dialer strategies.
  • Run all processes complaint with FDCPA and other regulatory frameworks

End-to-end Card Operations

Manage the entire application processing including credit underwriting using imaging and workflows.

  • Build application score cards and calibrate them periodically.
  • Card activation process management.
  • Manage the entire customer service process including specialized services for Gold and Platinum members.

Sutherland proprietary platform based offering to manage the entire CRM process including complaints handling and offering Platinum standards in customer experience.

  • Manage the entire authorization process including verification calling.
  • Manage the settlement and reconciliation process with VISA and MASTERCARD
  • Manage the entire chargeback process as per VISA and MASTERCARD guidelines
  • Manage the entire soft collections with Sutherland proprietary platform based offering.

Card-in-a-box Model

Providing hosting of Host credit card technology and end-to-end services priced on a per-card basis for debit, credit and pre-paid cards for the Asia, US, LATAM, India and the Middle East markets.

Banks that are considering change of service providers but do not want to incur the related capital expenditure can engage with Sutherland on this model.

Bank-in-a-box

Sutherland hosts banking and lending platforms from leading global technology vendors and offer end-to-end services to clients. Sutherland also offers a mobile banking platform in partnership with a leading technology firm and offers a very secure mobile banking transacting platform for its clients.

Project & Program Management

Provide domain expertise, project management and migration of data from legacy core banking or lending systems to newer technology. Experience in implementing any retail banking platforms, ATM switches, credit card platforms.

Consulting Services

Sutherland has the domain expertise to offer consulting services for performance optimization of Banking processes to Retail Banks and Credit Card companies.

SME Credit Work Flow Platform

Proprietary fully integrated credit risk assessment and approval application (Vazirio) that ensures speed, consistency and accountability through the approval chain. The product has an inbuilt scoring engine that generates risk of borrowers and links it to Probability of Default estimates based on Bank’s own portfolio. Sutherland also has a post approval credit administration and monitoring application that seamlessly integrates to Vazirio.

Banking MIS Platform

Proprietary BI (Business Intelligence) and Reporting Platform (Reliability) that integrates with all core banking applications and all channel applications to publish business MIS for product profitability, customer profitability, sales tracking, cross sell/ up sell opportunities, channel usage, cost of client ownership, relationship values etc. ‘Reliability’ offers a solution that has the right balance of features, attributes, technology, performance and price to suit nearly all the basic as well as complex data management and analytical requirements in the retail banking space.

‘Reliability’ aims to offer business users a robust and user friendly, reporting & data analysis tool to facilitate faster business and operational decision making process.


The Sutherland Advantage

  • Flexible engagement model caters to cyclical businesses
  • Transaction based pricing options
  • Integrated solution with back and front office support
  • Specialized knowledge in various Financial Services segments