Nuvias has teamed up with Riverbed Technologies to offer a unique service that delivers proactive monitoring, alerting and reporting for Riverbed SteelHead™ and SteelFusion™ solutions. The highly flexible and adaptable service provides recommendations to improve WAN acceleration performance, reduce problem resolution times, identify and isolate persistent performance issues and avoid unplanned expenditure to maximise ROI.

Nuvias Managed Service seamlessly integrates with new or existing SteelHead or SteelFusion deployments. Through real-time analysis and detailed quarterly reports the service enables partners to help their customers optimise network traffic based on business priorities and demands, as well as provide vital forecasts based on existing and future system capacity.

Developed by industry leading consultants, exclusively for Riverbed SteelHead and SteelFusion solutions, the service provides a real-time visibility and reporting portal. The service also offers features such as availability monitoring, performance remediation and service reinstatement along with the continual management of all moves, additions, changes and deletions. The service is backed up by 24x7x365 direct access to an accredited Level 2 helpdesk, for partners without in-house consultancy and engineering expertise.

“We have worked closely with Riverbed to deliver a truly innovative, next generation service delivering real value for our partners and their customers,” said Lee Driscoll, regional vice president North for Nuvias. “Nuvias is the most extensively resourced, qualified, experienced and successful Riverbed distributor in EMEA, so we are ideally positioned to support our partners with this exciting new range of specialist services.”

Stephen Smith, vice president of global service provider partnerships at Riverbed Technologies, commented: “Riverbed specialises in providing solutions that help enterprises optimise the performance of their networks and the applications and services that run across them. Riverbed’s SteelHead technology has been recognised as a Leader in ‘Gartner's Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimisation’ eight years running.

“Nuvias is a highly capable value added distribution partner of Riverbed’s and I am delighted to see that they have developed a portfolio of white labelled services capabilities intended to complement our product portfolio and help our partners get to market faster with their own bundled managed service offers that meet and exceed their customers’ expectations.”

Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO),the world leader in digital security, is continuing its support for the digital transformation of Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy's most popular retail bank, by supplying its Allynis PIN by e-Channel​ solution that enables PIN delivery via SMS, web or their mobile banking app. The introduction of the world's first comprehensive e-PIN notification service marks the latest stage of Intesa Sanpaolo's partnership with Gemalto, which is leveraging innovative digital technologies to enhance the customer experience, build competitive advantage and secure greater operating efficiency. By the end of the year, Gemalto's current PIN-by-SMS and PIN-by-Web solutions will be joined by a new PIN-by-App channel, giving Intesa Sanpaolo customers the freedom to access instant PIN notifications and reminders via their mobile phone, tablet or PC.  ​ 

Intesa Sanpaolo is one of the largest banks in the Eurozone, and adoption of Gemalto's PIN by e-Channel solution is integral to the reimagining of its in-branch and digital banking offer. Over 800,000 codes have already been securely distributed, combining swift and seamless customer service with significant cost savings compared to tra​ditional postal delivery. Customers can activate and use their new credit and debit cards immediately by receiving an immediate notification of their PIN. Reminders can also be sent on request via any of the new channels, reducing the number of transactions cancelled because a customer has forgotten his or her PIN. 

"Real-time electronic PIN delivery is a key element of our vision for digital, multi-channel banking," said Massimo Tessitore, Head of Direct Channels, Mobile Payment and eCommerce Department at Intesa Sanpaolo. "With its unique experience, footprint and certification, Gemalto was a natural choice of partner to meet our requirements for security, customer experience, brand image and cost reduction." 

"In a fiercely competitive commercial environment, digitalization offers banks a route to improved customer service, market differentiation, reduced overhead and the creation of trusted ecosystems," said Philippe Cambriel, President for Europe, Mediterranean and CIS at Gemalto. "The successful implementation of the e-PIN project for Intesa Sanpaolo reflects our ability to accompany banks through every stage of the transformation process, helping them utilize key assets to create a compelling bank offer." 

Cassiopae, the leader in global asset finance software, announces that Hyundai Commercial (HCI) and Hyundai Capital (HCS) are in production with Cassiopae V4.5 leasing and lending software in South Korea.

Hyundai Commercial (HCI) is the commercial finance arm of Hyundai, one of the top five auto manufacturers in the world. The division offers credit finance including industrial financing, corporate financing, and investment financing. The company has been in production with the Cassiopae software since June 2015.

Hyundai Capital (HCS) is the number one provider of consumer financial products in South Korea. As the financial service unit of Hyundai Motor Group, HCS provides auto financing, auto leasing, personal loans, and home mortgages. Hyundai Capital operates in overseas markets including the U.S., Canada, China, Europe, and Russia and Brazil. HCS has been in production with Cassiopae software since the beginning of June 2016 and is now ready to accelerate expansion of its worldwide business using the Cassiopae global finance software platform.

The front-to-back Cassiopae V4.5 implementation for the two businesses involved migrating 19 million contracts and 58 million deals from legacy systems. Every day more than 4,500 Hyundai users interact with the Cassiopae system to manage millions of contracts in service. Cassiopae’s web service architecture enables Hyundai’s branches to connect via self-serve portals. In the first weeks of production HCS confirmed and funded more than 3,500 deals per day.

Mr. Gun Woo KIM (CIO) of Hyundai Capital, Hyundai Commercial and Hyundai Credit Card has said, “Hyundai Capital has integrated auto lease, auto installment and retail loan into one single system based on the Cassiopae solution. This is the first successful case of applying a packaged solution to core financial business in Korea and Hyundai Capital has a plan to deploy this platform to its global business entities.”

Hyundai is leveraging Cassiopae’s automated loan and lease processing, workflow, collateral management, and fully automated payment collection via integrated direct debit and financial settlement and clearing systems.

Cassiopae software supports a wide range of financial products and asset classes for the Korean market including housing loans, loan cards, factoring, complex corporate leases, asset-backed securities (ABS), and non-performing loan (NPL) purchasing. The software meets all of the regulatory and compliance requirements of Korea.

“Cassiopae V4.5 is unique in its ability to provide both agility and scalability for demanding, fast-paced environments,” said Emmanuel Gillet, Cassiopae CEO. “A project of this magnitude demonstrates how the right technology can truly enable the rapid business innovation needed to compete locally and globally. These go-lives are a major achievement for Cassiopae and Hyundai and demonstrate a deep commitment to the project by both sides.”

The HCI and HCS implementations in South Korea are the first major milestones of a multi-year project between Cassiopae and Hyundai that will encompass several business units and countries. 

• 07.11.2016 -- 12:17 pm

Financial IT speaks with Peter Moss,‎CEO at The SmartStream Reference Data Utility at Sibos 2016.

• 07.11.2016 -- 12:07 pm

Financial IT Speaks with Christian Schiebl, Executive VP, Corona Business Unit at SmartStream about  cash and liquidity management.

Compass Plus, an international provider of retail banking and electronic payments software to processors and financial institutions, has announced the successful completion of stress testing its open development payment platform, TranzAxis, on Oracle Exadata Database Machine.

Oracle Exadata Database Machine delivers exceptional performance and is the ideal database platform for online transaction processing (OLTP) applications, data warehouses, and the varied and unpredictable workloads of cloud computing.  It is a complete package of servers, storage, networking, and software that is massively scalable, secure and redundant.

Working with FORS Distribution, a Platinum level member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), which provided the Oracle Exadata Database Machine for the test environment, Compass Plus recently performed further stress tests to ensure TranzAxis’ high performance as part of its initiative to continuously develop and improve its software and solutions.

The stress testing was carried out with the primary objective of benchmarking the platform’s performance when deployed in a network of 10,000 ATMs and to demonstrate its functionality when working with the hardware against specific test environment criteria. The results have effectively enabled Compass Plus to evaluate the usability, availability and continuity of TranzAxis on Oracle Exadata. Other test objectives included measuring the ability to detect and eliminate application errors and any issues in the configuration as well as finding and removing any bottlenecks affecting the performance of applications within this test environment.

“The optimised hardware and software complex of Oracle Exadata helps increase efficiency of the systems several-fold through a simple and quick infrastructure update which does not require replacement of application software,” said Andrey Tambovsky, Technologies Director at FORS Distribution. “A strong team of experts from Compass Plus and FORS Solution Center, with their long-term experience with Oracle Exadata, once again managed to prove it by showing impressive results.”

“By testing how our payment software will behave in a variety of real-life situations, we are able to propose optimal system and hardware configurationsbased on our customer’s requirements, and subsequently offer savings for their transaction processing business,” said Alexandra Kochergina, Head of Partner Programs at Compass Plus. “We are grateful for the continued support provided by FORS distribution in our testing endeavours and look forward to working with them in the future.”

• 28.10.2016 -- 10:17 am

Financial IT speaks with Jouk Pleiter, CEO, Co-Founder, Backbase at Sibos 2016.