Backbase PressRoom

May 2012

1. 03 May

   Backbase Signs Higher One, a Leading Financial Services Provider for Colleges and Universities

   Backbase, the Bank 2.0 specialist, has announced it will provide its full Bank 2.0 Suite to Higher One, a technology and payment services company focused on higher education. Higher One was founded in 2000 on a college campus and remains committed to providing all students with the choice for easier access to refunds, innovative banking services, and the basics of financial management.

April 2012

1. 24 Apr

   Backbase and GFT sign European partnership agreement

   The GFT Group (FAR:GEX), a leading international provider of innovative Information Technology (IT) solutions and services, and Backbase, the Bank 2.0 specialist, today announced the signing of a partnership agreement to enhance sales, service and delivery of both companies. Focusing on the European market, GFT will implement Backbase’s Bank 2.0 Portal Software at multiple financial services customers.

March 2012

1. 13 Mar

   Backbase Doubles Software Revenue; Adds Tier-1 Customers Worldwide

   Backbase, the Bank 2.0 specialist, announced it has completed its most successful year to date. The financial services software maker saw strong growth with the biggest spike coming from licenses.

January 2012

1. 31 Jan

   Backbase Partners with Sandstone

   Backbase, the Bank 2.0 Portal specialist, has teamed up with Sandstone, Australia’s leading provider of online banking solutions. Sandstone will market and support Backbase’s leading-edge Bank 2.0 Portal and Forms products throughout Australia and New Zealand.

November 2011

1. 23 Nov

   Strategist and Author Roger Peverelli Joins Backbase Advisory Board

   Peverelli is a partner at VODW, a leading, international, strategy consulting firm based in the Netherlands. He is an expert in customer-focused strategy and customer-centric change in financial services. Backbase will benefit from Peverelli’s deep financial consumer insights and extensive global experience, which will help advance its Engagement Banking strategy.

2. 07 Nov

   Join Backbase and Forrester Research for the Webinar: 'Banks Need to Become SUPER'

   Forrester's Brad Strothkamp will present: 'Banks Need To Become SUPER' in the Backbase Engagement Banking webinar series. This free webinar will be held November 9, 13:00 EST (this is 10:00 PST / 19:00 CET).

3. 01 Nov

   Backbase named Visionary in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals, 2011

   Backbase has been included in the Visionary Quadrant of analyst firm Gartner Inc.’s, Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals, 2011. This culminates a year of growing momentum for the company in the global portal market.

October 2011

1. 11 Oct

   Backbase Optimizes Univé’s Online Forms

   Backbase, the Bank 2.0 portal specialist, announced today that one of the largest insurance cooperatives in the Netherlands, Univé, has chosen Backbase software to optimize its online forms process for sales and customer self-service.

September 2011

1. 13 Sep

   Bank 2.0 Expert Brett King Joins Backbase Advisory Board

   King, who is a strategic advisor to the world’s leading financial services organizations, will help Backbase to improve its offering to the financial sector while imparting a wealth of useful market knowledge.

August 2011

1. 09 Aug

   Backbase Chosen to Present at FinovateFall

   Backbase, the whitelabel Bank 2.0 Portal specialist, has been chosen to present its ‘Retail Bank of the Future’ to a record crowd at the FinovateFall event September 20 and 21st in Manhattan.

2. 02 Aug

   Backbase Forms 5.0 Brings Control Back to E-Business

   Backbase, the Bank 2.0 Portal specialist, today announced the completion of its Bank 2.0 Portal Suite with the release of Backbase Forms 5.0. Backbase Forms allows companies to streamline their online customer dialogs and provides more control to e-business managers to manage online self-service and customer enrollments processes.

July 2011

1. 05 Jul

   Backbase Hires Interactive Media Veteran Bart Termorshuizen

   Backbase, the leader in Bank 2.0 portal solutions, has hired Bart Termorshuizen to head its Client Services team. Termorshuizen joins Backbase from QNH Interactive where he was founder and managing director. Prior to that he served as managing director at the global marketing and communications firm PPGH/JWT Engage and in a similar role at Dutch firm Clockwork.

June 2011

1. 14 Jun

   Backbase Customer VLC Goes Live

   Dutch insurance broker Van Lanschot Chabot chose Backbase’s technology to help it update its Internet portal. The result, which recently went live, is called ‘MijnChabot’, an innovative online platform where customers can manage their accounts.

2. 07 Jun

   Backbase Strengthens New York Team with Former SDL Tridion VP

   Backbase, the leader in Bank 2.0 portal solutions, has hired Herber de Ruijter to lead its North American operations. De Ruijter joins Backbase from SDL Tridion where for the last five years he was VP of Professional Services and helped build Tridion’s North American business.

3. 07 Jun

   Backbase Extends its Portal offering with CMS 5.0

   Backbase, the Bank 2.0 Portal specialist, today announced another step in its journey toward deeper integration with Web Content Management platforms. Its latest release, Backbase CMS 5.0, is a content creation, publication and replication application tailored for use with Backbase Portal.

May 2011

1. 24 May

   Backbase Partners with Thales to Complement Core Banking Systems

   Backbase has partnered with the CIS Banking division of France-based electronics and security company Thales. The partnership strengthens and further extends the reach of Backbase's eco-system of companies with deep financial services roots.

2. 11 May

   Backbase Launches App Store with Thomson Reuters and Strands Personal Finance

   Backbase, the Bank 2.0 specialists, today launched the Backbase App Store together with Strands Personal Finance and Thomson Reuters at FinovateSpring in San Francisco. Finovate is a series of unique conferences that showcase the most cutting edge innovations in financial and banking technology.

3. 03 May

   TCS Bank Chooses Backbase’s Bank 2.0 Portal Solution

   Backbase is providing Tinkoff with portal software that integrates its public marketing website and its private Internet banking application into a single platform, providing its customers with a seamless online experience. Tinkoff was impressed with Backbase’s modern, flexible approach and shared customer engagement vision.

January 2011

1. 14 Jan

   Backbase Expands North American Operations

   Backbase Inc., a leader in next-generation portal software, today announced that it is expanding its North American operations with a new office in New York, NY. This is the second US office for the Netherlands-based company, who also has an office in San Francisco’s Financial District.

2. 10 Jan

   Backbase selected to demo at FinovateEurope 2011

   Backbase has been selected to demonstrate the latest release of its Bank 2.0 portal product at FinovateEurope 2011, the high-profile banking technology conference, on Tuesday, February 1, 2011 in London.