CGI Selected by Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking as a Preferred Global IT Partner
January 18 2011 - 8:45AM
PR Newswire (Canada)
MONTREAL, Jan. 18 /CNW/ -- Stock Market Symbols GIB.A (TSX) GIB
(NYSE) www.cgi.com/newsroom MONTREAL, Jan. 18 /CNW Telbec/ - CGI
Group Inc. (TSX: GIB.A; NYSE: GIB), a leading provider of
information technology (IT) and business process services,
announced today that it has signed a three-year agreement with
Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking (SG CIB) as a
preferred global vendor for IT application services. Under this new
agreement, CGI will provide application development and support
services using its global delivery centres to SG CIB locations in
Paris, London, New York, Singapore and Hong Kong. "We are
looking forward to further developing our partnership," said Ian
Buchanan, SG CIB's Global Chief Information Officer. "We chose CGI
because of its proven record in delivering quality services and its
experience with applications outsourcing and global delivery
methodologies needed to streamline and enhance our IT environments
while reducing our costs." "We are very pleased to become a
global partner with Societe Generale Corporate & Investment
Banking," said CGI's Donna Morea, President, U.S., Europe and Asia,
CGI. "Working with SG CIB allows us to to expand our presence in
Europe and in Asia, while utilizing our global delivery
capabilities including our unique nearshore bilingual centers in
Canada. Together, we can drive its continued growth around the
world." About CGI Founded in 1976, CGI Group Inc. is one of
the largest independent information technology and business process
services firms in the world. CGI and its affiliated companies
employ approximately 31,000 professionals. CGI provides end-to-end
IT and business process services to clients worldwide from offices
and centers of excellence in Canada, the United States, Europe and
Asia Pacific. As at September 30, 2010, CGI's revenue was C$3.7
billion and its order backlog was C$13.3 billion. CGI shares are
listed on the TSX (GIB.A) and the NYSE (GIB) and are included in
both, the Dow Jones Sustainability Index and the FTSE4Good Index.
Website: www.cgi.com. Societe Generale Corporate & Investment
Banking At the core of Societe Generale's universal banking
business model, the Corporate & Investment Bank is a
welldiversified and leading player with nearly 11,000 professionals
present in 33 countries across Europe, the Americas and
Asia-Pacific. Standing by its clients across sectors, the Corporate
& Investment Bank tailors solutions for them by capitalising on
its worldwide expertise in investment banking, global finance, and
global markets. - For Corporates, Financial Institutions and public
sector: providing a global advisory approach (M&A, debt, equity
transaction, capital structure, and asset & liability
management), as well as quality capital raising solutions across
the debt and equity spectrum, optimised financing and expert risk
management responses notably in the realm of foreign exchange and
rates derivatives. - For investors: offering reliable and sound
investment opportunities and risk management solutions through its
integrated global markets platform delivering seamless access to
markets (equity, rates, credit, currencies, commodities and
derivatives), as well as advice and solid financial engineering,
quality of execution and forward-looking research across asset
classes. Website: www.sgcib.com. To view this news release in HTML
formatting, please use the following URL:
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