ICS Financial Systems Ltd (ICSFS), The global award-winning provider of the Universal and Digital Banking software solutions; ICS BANKS®, proudly announces that Ivory Bank, one of South Sudan’s prominent commercial banks, has successfully gone live on the ICS BANKS® Universal Banking Solution, marking another milestone in ICSFS’s expanding footprint across the African banking sector.
This complete systems overhaul, which took around five months, covered Ivory Bank’s headquarters in Juba alongside eleven branches around South Sudan and in Khartoum, replaced their current banking software infrastructure with ICS BANKS® Universal Banking Software Suite from ICSFS, providing Ivory Bank with a unified, real-time banking platform designed to streamline operations, boost efficiency and control, enhance customer experience, and strengthen governance and risk visibility across all business lines.
By going live on ICS BANKS® Universal Banking Solution, Ivory Bank has transitioned to a next-generation digitally enabled system that simplifies processes, increases efficiency, and supports rapid product innovation. The system’s agile architecture and open banking backend facilitated complete data migration from Ivory’s legacy system to ICS BANKS® with zero data loss, and its powerful parametrisation engine allows Ivory Bank to configure and launch new financial products quickly, ensuring flexibility, compliance, and scalability throughout its retail and corporate operations.
On this occasion, Madam Bruna Siricio Iro; General Manager of Ivory Bank, stated:
“Our partnership with ICSFS marks a defining step in our digital-transformation journey. Implementing ICS BANKS® Universal Banking Solution has empowered us with the agility, scalability, and control we need to serve our customers consistently and efficiently across South Sudan. This transformation strengthens our technological foundation and sets a solid base for future growth. We are confident that ICS BANKS® will continue to enhance our competitiveness and support our mission to provide reliable financial services nationwide”
In response, Mr. Robert Hazboun; Global CEO of ICS Financial Systems Ltd. – ICSFS, stated:
“We are proud to welcome Ivory Bank to the ICSFS family. Their successful go-live on ICS BANKS® Universal Banking Solution marks our debut in South Sudan, representing a new market penetration for ICSFS and reinforcing our strategic expansion across Africa. This achievement not only strengthens Ivory Bank’s leadership in the local banking landscape but also highlights our solid commitment to delivering cutting-edge, agile, and cost-effective banking platforms that empower financial service providers to thrive in fast-changing markets. Through this milestone, ICSFS continues to champion digital transformation and financial inclusion across the African continent.”
ICSFS invests in its software suites by utilising modern technology in launching new products, constructing a secured and agile integration, and keeping pace with new standards and regulations worldwide. ICS BANKS® software suites future-proof banking activities by providing a broad range of features and capabilities with more agility and flexibility, to enrich customers journey experience, hence improving the trust and confidentiality between the customer and the bank. ICS BANKS® has always been a pioneer in utilising the latest technology to serve financial institutions. In addition to its embedded Service-Oriented-Architecture (SOA), the system can be deployed on-premises, hybrid, or cloud.