PhoenixEFE® Core is an enterprise software platform for real-time transaction processing and account servicing. PhoenixEFE Core includes modules for customer management, universal loan and deposit servicing, system administration and general ledger. PhoenixEFE Core database also incorporates functionalities for teller, collections, relationship pricing, sales & service, fraud management as well as card management.      

In the wake of FDIC stress test failures, veteran financial technology firm Pendo Systems launched Version 3.1 of its data exploration, discovery, and analysis platform, The Pendo Data Platform (PDP). PDP enables financial institutions to quickly identify the resident dark data held hostage in legacy systems and documents.

Boku announced new carrier partnerships in Germany and Italy to power carrier billing on Spotify. This is an expansion of Boku’s existing global partnership with Spotify that first launched in the United Kingdom and includes every major carrier in Germany and one of the leading Italian mobile operators. With these new agreements, nearly 90 million mobile subscribers across these markets will be able to purchase Spotify Premium subscriptions using their mobile phone number without the need for a credit card.

The fund is sub-advised by Apex Capital Management, which also serves as sub-advisor to the Touchstone Small Cap Growth Fund. The Dayton, Ohio firm embraces bottom-up fundamental research with top-down secular views, investing in companies with stable growth and emerging growth characteristics.

The popularization of mobile phones with biometric sensors together with technological advances for mobile payments has revolutionized the world of online transactions. The FIDO Alliance was formed in July 2012 to address the lack of interoperability among these types of strong authentication technologies, and remedy the problems users face with creating and remembering multiple usernames and passwords.

 Visa invited start-ups to compete in the company’s second annual The Everywhere Initiative. In partnership with start-up ecosystem company, KITE, Visa is posing three real-life business challenges to the start-up community to create innovative solutions that solve Visa business problems and drive the future of commerce. The selected winner of each challenge will receive $50,000 to be used towards the real-world production of their solution and mentorship from Visa marketing, product and technology teams over a year-long period to help bring their solutions to life.

WEX  announced that WEX Australia has updated its existing agreement with Flight Centre Travel Group (FCTG), one of the world’s largest travel agency groups, to provide virtual credit card payments for its retail stores.

In the last business continuity blog we talked about the three phases of Business Continuity Planning (BCP)--Emergency Response Action Plan, Disaster Recovery Plan, and Business Continuity and Continuance. We also discussed NOT chasing scenarios but rather planning for loss conditions--loss of personnel, loss of facilities, loss of services, and loss of access.