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SBS: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

SBS, formerly Sopra Banking Software, is a vendor of core banking and lending software for banks and lenders in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Its portfolio covers core banking, lending, deposits, payments, open banking and regulatory reporting. The company renamed itself SBS in October 2024. It describes its solutions as software-as-a-service and cloud-native, and it is part of the software group 74Software.

SBS states that its head office stays in Paris, France, and that it keeps its own management while part of 74Software. Axway, which now trades as 74Software, acquired the business in September 2024. The company's website does not name a majority shareholder of SBS itself and does not state where its services are hosted. Organisations evaluating SBS should confirm hosting regions, cloud providers and sub-processors in their contract. As a French company, SBS is subject to EU jurisdiction.

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Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 11, 2026
Headquarters
FR (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Category
Fintech & Neobanks
Type
Product
Website
sbs-software.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to SBS

The European alternatives to SBS come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with SBS

SBS is headquartered in FR and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so SBS scores best on data residency.

SBS is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs SBS together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to SBS?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to SBS include 1822direkt, ActivoBank and Air Bank. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to SBS?

Our list of EU alternatives to SBS is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is SBS GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

SBS is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes SBS an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 11, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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