Sword Group

Sword Group

10 Old Bailey, London, EC4M 7NG, UK
Tel: +44 207 038 1282, Web: www.sword-group.com
Contact: Julian Mountain, Divisional Head, Sword Consultancy Division, Tel: +44 7850 150 869, Email: jmountain@sword-group.com
Other Office Locations: Manchester, Aberdeen, Bracknell, Brentford - UK, Paris, Reims, Lyon – France, Geneve - Switzerland, Johannesburg - S Africa, Luxemburg, Houston, Boston, New York - USA

Sword is a Management Consultancy specializing in the Banking and Finance Sector. Our staff consists mainly of ex-big 5 consultants (PWC, KPMG, Accenture etc). We have also recruited a number of specialists directly from industry, from companies such as Capital One, the specialist credit card company. We have over 1000 consultants worldwide to help clients with your assignments. This ensures that we have the right resource with the right skills for each assignment.

Our Consultants

We ensure that our consultants are:

  • Carefully selected to ensure quality;
  • Highly Qualified and experienced to undertake the assignment;
  • Able to start within a tight timeframe;

Services Offered

  • IT Systems Development
  • IT project evaluation and reviews of existing projects (cost benefit analysis)
  • Design, development and implementation of new bespoke systems solutions
  • Package selection and evaluation
  • IT project management (end to end)
  • Stakeholder management
  • Web based developments

Strategy

  • Strategic definition
  • Issue resolution
  • Aligning the IT strategy with the business strategy

Training

  • Human Resource Management
    Personnel management/advice
  • Employment law
  • Recruitment

Recent Assignments

Royal Bank of Scotland RBS

We worked in the international payments area within RBS assisting them with the project management of the migration between Natwest Bank and RBS. The overall project budget was £2.3billion with a projected headcount saving of 18,000. We delivered on time and within budget.

Societe General Bank

We project managed the bespoke web based Java development of the Global Equities Research project. This project involved considerable travel and co-ordination with the Paris, New York, Singapore and Tokyo offices. This was a 45 person team with a £10million budget and was successfully delivered on time and within budget.

Capital One Credit Cards

We project managed the implementation of a credit card fraud package solution. The IT solution saved Capital One over £1m in the first month of operation. The cost of the project was under £1.5m and the project was successfully delivered on time and within budget.

Assignments vary from 1 day strategy reviews to 18 month IT development and implementation projects.

Technology - Anti-money laundering, Application integration, Bank consultancy, Bespoke software development, Integrated Banking Systems, IT Services & Consultancy, Private Banking, Project Management, Trading Systems, Treasury Management