FOUR KEY ISSUES
- Business transformation outsourcing's link to BPO remains a key sticking point and an area of potential conflict of interests for FSIs and vendors, as it is seen as a key opportunity to cut costs by the vendor and as contributing great risk to the outsourcing process by the FSI.
- Growth in BPO looks set to outpace the overall financial services outsourcing markets growing at 10.5% CAGR to 2005 reaching $4.5bn and creating massive vendor opportunity driven by mortgage, claims processing and policy administration.
- Corporate governance and partner control are key areas of concern for FSIs when considering BPO. The threat of post sign-up vendor problems is one which prevents many FSIs from considering BPO.
- A key concern for the sustainability of growth in the BPO market is the vendor profitability on individual deals signed and vendors' ability to continue signing FSIs to leverage the investment made in the first client offering the same attractive services to FSIs going forward.
MAIN BPO DEVELOPMENTS TO 2005
Background
- FSIs remain skeptical to yielding control, but attitudes are changing to BPO as cost pressures mount and vendor expertise becomes evident. Going forward
- Business process outsourcing looks set to develop into one of the main outsourcing market in financial services in the next few years growing faster than any other area of outsourcing from 2002 to 2005.
Financial services specific BPO opportunities
- Identifies the individual BPO segments opportunities in individual lines of business.
Country overview
- Leaders
- Growers
- Laggers
APPENDIX
- Future reading
- SPP writing team
DATASETS
Table 1: Business process outsourcing in European financial services by sub-segment and line of business, 2002-2005
Table 2: Country breakdown of European financial services BPO opportunity, 2002-2005