Petra Financial announces Mizuho Corporate Bank Limited, as their first customer under the extended Partnership agreement with CB.Net that was announced in July 2008.
Mizuho Corporate Bank Ltd. has deployed, CB.Nets BankSearchPlusOnline in 3 locations worldwide: London, Paris and Milan. BankSearchPlusOnline will give Mizuho staff access to the most comprehensive directory of international payments reference data. Mizuho will take advantage of the scope and the unrivalled timeliness of data in BankSearchPlus, as well as the experience that CB.Net has in the reference data world, with access to SEPA compliancy and payment routing data, IBAN2BIC validation as well as other payment reference data.
“BankSearchPlus is an easy to use tool that helps improve our customer service,” says Terry Rogers, Mizuhos head of customer services.
“BankSearchPlusOnline web query tool is easy for us to deploy to our branches and our staff are able to use high caliber data to improve the quality of service that we deliver.”
“Payments reference data is becoming more prominent in the finance industry and Mizuho have invested in the BankSearchPlusOnline web query tool in order for them to continue delivering the best service and value for money to their customers,” says Ian Dunning, managing director of CB.Net. “We are very pleased to be working with Mizuho and adding value to their business.””We are delighted that Mizuho has become our first joint customer and this demonstrates that the agreement we forged with CB.Net leverages both our organizations strengths CB.Nets excellent data and Petra Financials strength in its sales and customer service channel,” says John Burton, marketing director of Petra Financial.
“What our expanded agreement delivers is a compelling combination of depth of quality reference data that CB.Nets rigorous focus on quality brings, and Petra Financials domain expertise, complete customer satisfaction, and broad experience with the majority of the markets banking and payments systems,” says Burton. “We are pleased that this has been a successful combination to deliver the best of both Petra Financial and CB.Net to Mizuho and their clients.”