Accuity Launches Comprehensive Strategic Services Offering
SKOKIE, IL – December 5, 2007 – Accuity, a leading provider of financial industry data, software and services today introduced new offerings from its Strategic Services Group, providing unique insight, personnel, products and solutions to assist businesses with everyday regulatory compliance, customer due diligence and payment processing operations. The development of a Strategic Services Group comes in response to changes in the industry – new regulations, payment options and advances in technology. The offerings now available include Advisory Services, Implementation Services and Custom Software and Data Solutions.
Advisory Services offer comprehensive training and support for requirements related to compliance regulations as well as all of our software and data solutions. In addition, solution effectiveness and business processes reviews are available to assess current environment and business issues and provide recommendations and suggestions for improvement.
“Our Advisory Services include consultation with clients on how best to reduce their false positive rates,” said Henry Balani, director of strategic services for Accuity. &#ldquo;Over the course of Accuity’s long history in working with clients, we have accumulated significant expertise in developing and implementing recommendations and best practices in reducing the occurrences of false positives, helping improve operational efficiency as well as reducing overall risks to clients. We have put this expertise to work though our new Advisory Services.”
Implementation Services include basic installation as well as integration of Accuity products into existing technical environments and business processes. The Strategic Services Group offers project management services ensuring Accuity solutions are implemented within scope, on time and on budget.
Custom Software and Data Solutions are designed to help reach operational goals including customization and extension of software applications as well as configuring and managing Accuity data solutions designed to fit business’ processes and back end systems. Each solution provided by Accuity’s Strategic Services Group offers variable levels of customization and can be implemented as Web-based, integrated or stand-alone tools.
“Our ultimate goal is to provide our customers the highest levels of regulatory compliance or payment straight through processing rates with minimal intervention requirements from their staff,” Balani stated. “Accuity’s dedicated Strategic Services Group will make businesses competitive in today’s fast-changing regulatory compliance and payment processing environments.”
About Accuity
Accuity, a SourceMedia company, is a leading provider of data, software and services that allow organizations, across multiple industries, to maximize efficiency and facilitate compliance of their transactions.
As the Official Registrar of ABA Routing Numbers since 1911, Accuity maintains the most authoritative and comprehensive databases globally with a reputation built on the accuracy and quality of our data, products and services.
For more than 150 years our worldwide clients, located in over 150 countries, include C-level executives, managers, and technology professionals. The solutions and services we provide are packaged in multiple formats to serve their diverse needs.
About SourceMedia, Inc.
SourceMedia provides market information, including news, analysis, and insight to the financial services and related industries such as accounting and technology, through its publications, industry-standard data applications, seminars and conferences. Its flagship publications, including American Banker, National Mortgage News, The Bond Buyer, and Accounting Today, have helped build SourceMedia’s reputation as the pre-eminent information source in its respective markets. Consulting services, software, and data provided through its two divisions, National Regulatory Services (NRS) and Accuity, facilitate regulatory compliance, funds registration and data flow among institutions in the investment, insurance, and banking industries.
The news, information, integrated data, consulting services, and marketing solutions SourceMedia delivers is packaged in any format customers prefer and need – in person, in print, or online, including newspapers and magazines, reference directories, database products, software, Web seminars and live events.
SourceMedia’s 750,000 worldwide clients and subscribers range from C-level executives to business-unit heads to line managers – from the front office to the middle office to the back office. SourceMedia employs more than 1,000 employees worldwide, with headquarters in New York and offices in Chicago, Washington, DC, and London.
