Fiserv Launches TD Waterhouse Banking Services Into the UK; Financial Technology Company Wins Multimillion-Dollar Agreement to Provide Core Banking Systems.Business Editors LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 30, 2003 TD Waterhouse TD Waterhouse is the brand used for both British and Canadian brokerages within the TD Bank Financial Group. The brand originated as a United States brand for discount brokerage when TD purchased Waterhouse Securities. Bank has selected Fiserv, Inc. (Nasdaq:FISV FISV Fiserv, Inc (stock symbol) ) to support its rollout into the United Kingdom. Fiserv will provide the account processing and key customer call center applications. TD Waterhouse is the UK's largest retail, execution-only broker, with more than 600,000 customers. The company currently offers online and telephone brokerage services combined with access to information from some of the world's leading research providers. The launch of banking services brings the company a step closer to achieving its aim of becoming an integrated financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. provider in the UK. Fiserv has worked with TD Waterhouse in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. since 1994, when it was initially launched as one of the world's first electronic banks. Worldwide, TD Waterhouse provides investors and financial advisers with a broad range of brokerage, mutual fund, banking and other consumer financial products and currently has more than 3.3 million clients. Fiserv will provide a managed service to process TD Waterhouse Bank accounts through its International Comprehensive Banking System (ICBS ICBS International Committee of the Blue Shield ICBS Incorporated Church Building Society ICBS International Conference of Banking Supervisors ICBS International Cigar Band Society ICBS Inter-Connected Business System ) running in the Fiserv UK data center. This will be linked to the Bank's Web applications through the Fiserv open systems interface. In addition, Fiserv Alliant CRS CRS Course CRS Certified Residential Specialist (real estate certification) CRS Central Reservation System CRS Can't Remember Stuff (polite form) CRS Cost Reduction Strategy CRS Consumer Relations Specialist and Branch Teller solutions will provide real-time automated payment processing and customer relationship management. "TD Waterhouse Bank has relied on Fiserv technology to support it through the vast changes of the past eight years," said Nigel Kohler, managing director of Fiserv Europe. "The launch of TD Waterhouse banking products in the UK will give investors here access to a range of services that we believe will breathe new life into the market. I fully expect TD Waterhouse to be as successful here as it has been in its many other ventures worldwide." TD Waterhouse is one of the world's largest discount brokers, providing investors with a broad range of brokerage, mutual fund, banking and other consumer financial products on an integrated basis. Worldwide, TD Waterhouse currently services more than 3.3 million customer accounts in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, and India and has over US $154 billion of assets under management Assets Under Management (AUM) is a term used by financial services companies in the mutual fund and money management or investment management business to gauge how much money they are managing. . Fiserv, Inc. (Nasdaq:FISV) is an independent, full-service provider of integrated data processing Noun 1. integrated data processing - automatic data processing in which data acquisition and other stages or processing are integrated into a coherent system IDP automatic data processing, ADP - data processing by a computer and information management systems to the financial industry. As a leading technology resource, Fiserv serves more than 13,000 financial services providers worldwide, including banks, broker-dealers, credit unions, financial planners/investment advisers, insurance companies, mortgage banks and savings institutions. Headquartered in Brookfield, Wis., Fiserv can be found on the Internet at www.fiserv.com. |
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