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Temenos Transact
Established core banking system used by banks in over a hundred countries
As of 1 September 2026, Temenos Transact's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. The most widely deployed third-party core banking system, with country model banks covering local regulation in a long list of markets. Softwr lists it under APIs. Temenos Transact is made by Temenos AG, available on Web, Linux, Windows, REST API.
Overview
What Temenos Transact does
Temenos Transact, formerly T24, is a core banking system handling accounts, deposits, lending, payments, treasury and accounting for retail, corporate, private and Islamic banking. Its country model banks package local regulatory, tax and reporting requirements for individual markets, which is why it appears in banks across Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Europe where local compliance would otherwise be a bespoke build. The distinguishing asset is not architecture but coverage and ecosystem. There are more implementation partners, more consultants and more people who have done a Transact migration than for any competing core, which lowers execution risk on a project type where execution risk is the main danger. The counterpart is technical debt: the product dates to the 1990s, and although Temenos has moved it toward cloud deployment and API access, banks running older versions face substantial upgrade programmes to reach current releases. Buyers are banks of all sizes, particularly outside the largest Western markets. The trade-off is cost and rigidity: licensing, annual maintenance and implementation partner fees are large, and product changes that a cloud-native core treats as configuration can require development and a release here.
What people use it for
- A bank in an emerging market needing local regulatory compliance without building it from scratch
- An institution running Islamic banking products alongside conventional ones on one core
- A bank that needs a large pool of experienced implementation consultants to de-risk a migration
- A group standardising subsidiaries in several countries onto one core banking system
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Where it falls short
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- The codebase originates in the 1990s, so banks on older releases face major upgrade programmes to reach current versions, and many defer them for years.
- Total cost is dominated by implementation partner fees rather than licence, and those programmes routinely overrun their original estimates.
- Product changes that cloud-native cores treat as configuration can require development work and a release cycle, which slows time to market for new products.
- Heavy customisation is common and it makes every subsequent upgrade harder, creating a compounding cost that banks feel a decade after go-live.
- Temenos has repeatedly restructured its product line and naming, so buyers must check carefully which components a proposal actually includes and which are separately licensed.
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Pricing
What Temenos Transact costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Temenos Transact
On request
- Perpetual or subscription licence scaled by assets, accounts or users
- Annual maintenance typically a percentage of licence value
- Implementation delivered by partners and charged separately
- Country model bank modules licensed per market
Capabilities
Features
Country model banks
Pre-built local regulatory, tax and reporting packages by market
Multi-product core
Retail, corporate, private, treasury and Islamic banking on one system
Payments processing
Domestic and cross-border payment handling with ISO 20022 support
API layer
REST APIs exposing core functions to digital channels and third parties
Cloud deployment
Available on public cloud as well as on-premises installation
Accounting engine
Multi-entity, multi-currency general ledger and regulatory reporting
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Questions people ask
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Is Transact the same as T24?
Yes. T24 was renamed Temenos Transact; older installations and much of the consultant population still use the T24 name.
Can it run in the cloud?
Yes, it is offered on public cloud, though many existing installations remain on-premises and moving them is a project.
What drives the cost?
Licence scaled by size, annual maintenance as a percentage of licence, and implementation partner fees that usually exceed the software cost.
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