Everlink and RYCOM Rev Up With Octane Mobile

December 19, 2012

MARKHAM, ON – Everlink Payment Services Inc. today announced a partnership with RYCOM Inc. to introduce a turnkey mobile banking service offering for its credit union and bank clients known as Octane Mobile.

Octane Mobile includes user interface and flow design, smartphone vendor agnostic application development, backend system integration, ongoing application support, and business analytic reporting. Octane Mobile’s powerful mobile application development tools provide a scalable platform from which to leverage the functionality of modern smartphone devices including features such as remote cheque capture, branch / ABM locator and digital wallet.  In addition, Octane Mobile offers extended capabilities to allow the introduction of the FI’s services to non-customers.

“Mobile banking has experienced dramatic growth as customers increase the amount of time they spend on, and the number of activities they can perform through, their mobile phones,” said Everlink President Mark Ripplinger. “Octane Mobile effectively fulfills customer demand for real-time account updates, and is accessible 24/7, at virtually any time from any location; thereby offering the end user a flexible and convenient banking experience.”

Octane Mobile’s integration experience with various third party banking systems has assisted financial clients such as First Calgary Financial and Meridian provide a seamless user experience to their ever growing community of mobile banking clients,” said Casey Witkowicz, President & CEO, RYCOM Inc. “Together, the Everlink and RYCOM team can assist clients establish a mobile strategy that will enable them to acquire, retain and convert customers by generating meaningful mobile conversations around their brand while simultaneously measuring the results.”

RYCOM Inc. is a provider of payment gateway and mobile application development services, serving Canada’s largest financial institutions, retail and property management sectors for over 15 years. Octane Mobile represents RYCOM’s operating brand for mobile application development and consulting services.

Everlink Payment Services Inc. based in Markham, ON, is a joint-venture company owned by FIS and Celero Solutions, and is fully PCI-DSS compliant and EMV certified with the Interac Association, MasterCard and Visa associations. Everlink is a recognized leader in the dependable secure delivery of Electronic Transaction Processing services, EMV Chip, Managed ATM Services and Integrated Payment Solutions in the Canadian financial services marketplace. Everlink is the first in Canada to instantly issue a fully personalized, Interac and MasterCard certified EMV Chip card.

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