The banking group Banque Populaire Caisse d’Epargne is preparing to transfer part of its IT activities to Portugal, Porto. The combined consortium calls for the transfer of 12 BPCE-IT services.
Like many banking players, such as BNP Paribas or Credit Agricole, the French banking institution Banque Populaire Caisse d’Epargne is preparing to move part of its IT activities to Portugal. According to the document sent by the company’s trade union, this project will lead to the complete relocation of 12 BPCE-IT services to Porto, directly affecting 58 employees. In addition, work in mixed mode (France/Portugal) in relation to 47 other services will concern all employees directly or indirectly. As a result, BPCE-IT employee representatives from the CGT, CFDT, CFTC, SUD, SNB and Unsa unions called on the banking group’s employees to strike on 17 January. Union organizations reported a mobilization of 450 people. They announced in a publication that they strongly oppose the transfer and outsourcing of BPCE-IT activities to CSE as part of the DragonFly project.
For the union federation, “Today the BPCE Group is transferring part of its activities abroad by reducing its workforce in France, i.e. 379 fewer service providers and 25 voluntary departures. We cannot accept that today it is necessary to transfer part of our activity to a structure abroad to finance We turned in. When contacted, BPCE’s communications department told us: “BPCE already has teams in Portugal in Porto. This project therefore aligns with our IT business deployment strategy. Furthermore, we plan to invest €25 million in recruitment and training over three years through this project. In addition, as part of this development plan, 70 internal positions will also be created in France.
A strategy that started in 2016 at Natixis
Natixis, the finance, management and financial services bank of the BPCE Group, launched a large-scale regionalization plan several years ago by moving a significant part of its IT activities to Portugal. Between 2016 and the end of 2019, the number of outsourced service providers was expected to decrease from 1,893 to 993. The aim of this reduction in the use of outsourced services was to reduce the bill, getting closer to the outsourcing strategies in place in many countries. Other countries and banking groups
