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Being Cognizant means
seeing beyond the current market cycle and leading clients to new, more productive business models.

 

With the global economy rebounding, the emerging New Normal has created a constantly churning marketplace—with consumer preferences to match. To compete, financial services firms need to reposition themselves for higher performance and new growth opportunities. Among the more prudent steps you can take: Transform your IT foundation to become more adaptive to customer needs.

Why Cognizant?

We help financial services firms develop business solutions that drive efficiency, effectiveness, innovation and virtualization. When you choose Cognizant, you benefit from deep industry expertise to help manage risk, comply with regulations, enhance product features and manage your business transformation challenges. It’s no wonder that six of the Top 10 U.S. banks and four of the Top 10 EU banks have chosen Cognizant.

Segments We Serve

There are generalists and there are specialists. It makes sense to choose a firm organized around specialists—smart people succeeding every day in the global financial markets. With Cognizant, you gain access to an expanded team of technology and functional experts who specialize in:

Asset & Wealth ManagementBenefit from a full spectrum of application development, maintenance, business process outsourcing and consulting services—as well as our global delivery expertise, from front office to back office.

Consumer Lending Many firms are going ‘back to basics’ and focusing on core deposits and asset gathering, yet the pressure to grow lending increases. Our experts can help you manage the risk and costs of acquiring and developing the right customers.

Investment Banking & Brokerage Our specialists create business processes that scale up or down as needed to meet your investment banking and brokerage goals—while reducing your costs, as well.

Securities Services Let us manage and maximize your IT assets. Our industry experts support the back offices of numerous asset management and brokerage firms, prime brokers, depository organizations and bank treasuries.

Cards & Payments With the rapid rise in credit card defaults, you need to limit your exposure. Our solutions help monitor and reduce risk, so you can focus on targeting, acquiring and retaining the most credit-worthy customers.

Governance, Risk & Compliance Join the leading North American and European banks that rely on us for successful credit, operational and market risk management solutions.

Retail/Wholesale Banking The credit crisis emphasized the need for liquidity, cash management and operational efficiency. Our banking solutions can optimize your business processes across the entire value chain.

Insights

Thinking you can use to build a stronger business.

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    Ten Ways to Win in the Rebound

    With the New Normal comes new opportunities. Our Banking & Financial Services specialists provide an overview of 10 key success factors.

     
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    Protect Against Man-in-the-Middle Attacks

    How can you successfully detect criminal intrusions—and minimize their impact? Here’s actionable advice for both consumers and banks.

 
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    The eMortgage Edge

    Check out the new Cognizant/Adobe framework that helps lenders and servicers simplify operations, save money and improve customer satisfaction.

     
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    Trading Lifecycle Management

    See how Cognizant partnered with Calypso to accelerate the global financial software and services company’s time to market and optimize its resources.

 
 
 

Our Approach

  • Alliances & Partnerships

    We can help you accelerate time-to-market, reduce total cost of ownership, and add flexibility—as well as incremental functionality—at lower cost through our partnerships with best-of-breed solution providers.

  • The Cognizant Difference

    It's in our DNA. Placing our clients first is embedded in the Cognizant culture. By investing in our people and resources, we bring new ideas and innovation to help you succeed in a changing business environment.

  • Cognizant 2.0

    By employing the Cognizant 2.0 platform, we bring the best people, resources and capabilities of our global delivery system to any client, anywhere.