TCS and Nationwide renew partnership to boost operational resilience

By Megha Bhattacharya

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) announced that it has renewed its partnership and services footprint with Nationwide Building Society in a bid to boost the latter’s enterprise agility and operational resilience. Nationwide will be able to fully utilise TCS’ range of services to transform its strategic applications and IT infrastructure. Additionally, TCS will support the Building Society’s move to new Agile ways of working.

“The new agreement reaffirms our confidence in the decade long partnership with TCS and we look forward to continuing to work together to deliver Nationwide’s IT strategy,” said Gary Delooze, Chief Information Officer, Nationwide Building Society. “Our continued technology investments will simplify our IT estate and create the platforms and services necessary to meet the future needs of our members. The partnership with TCS will help us meet these challenges while prioritising the security and resilience our members expect every day.”

According to TCS, its decade long relationship with Nationwide has seen the execution of programs including strategic initiatives such as regional brand integration, consolidation and simplification of its data centre operations and more lately has supported its resiliency agenda. Nationwide was also one of the early adopters of TCS’ product ignio AIOps.

“We look forward to strengthening our long-standing strategic partnership with Nationwide and supporting their push towards being a purpose-driven, resilient and adaptable organization. Our deep contextual knowledge, digital expertise, agile practices, and new ways of working will meet Nationwide’s growing business needs and ensure future resiliency,” said Satya Mishra, Business Unit Head, BFSI UK and Ireland, TCS.

Recently, TCS announced that Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) has deployed TCS BaNCS as its asset servicing platform in Germany, UK, France, Ireland and Luxembourg. It selected the Corporate Actions and Account Management components of the solution to build an integrated platform for delivering real-time customer experience across the custody lifecycle.