Smart Sourcing

The current economic climate requires your business to be organised most efficiently. Your capital and resources are used where they are most likely to be profitable. Without putting business continuity or vital processes at risk, a variety of activities can be outsourced to third parties. Payment processing falls into this category. Equens might be your best option if you are considering (partial) outsourcing of your intrabank and interbank processing services.

Equens into smart sourcing
As an international outsourcing partner, combining payments and cards with ICT expertise, Equens developed its experience into consultancy skills. This enables us to (partially) take over end-to-end payment processing and to support banks in optimising their payment value chain and aligning it with their specific payments market strategy.

Solutions in sourcing
Banks and Equens can jointly determine where outsourcing could achieve benefits and solve problems, and realise these improvements through anything from standardised solutions to full outsourcing, including labelling of client-specific services. This is where sourcing differs from smart sourcing.

Important reasons for sourcing to a specialised partner:

• Reduce operating costs and stay in control
• Improve your quality, reliability and security
• Gain easy access to best-in-class capabilities and knowledge
• Reduce time-to-market for new offerings
• Improve focus on customers and market opportunities

Why Equens?
Equens offers the unique combination of payments and ICT capabilities. We are not affiliated to one specific bank or card scheme, which allows us to operate independently. We work for a large number of banks in Europe, so our clients benefit from our scope and economies of scale.

Furthermore, Equens ‘lives’ payments; it has been our core business and core competence since our establishment. Equens’ future is payments, so we are committed to building and maintaining long-term and stable relationships with our clients.