02.07.2015

[Translate to English:] Munich, 2 July 2015 - SHS VIVEON, solution provider for comprehensive customer management, announces cooperation with CIC, provider of leasing and financing software. By merging the product families CICone and GUARDEAN (into GuardKeeper), the two partners have developed a comprehensive package offering standardised solutions for financial service providers, and vendors in particular.

Financial transactions are highly susceptible to credit risks and fraud. The last thing you would want is to have a "more" in turnover resulting in "more" risk or fraud. What you need, therefore - particularly at the point of sale - is a comprehensive solution for speedy and secure credit decisions, including support for all relevant processes from back office and middle office through to front office.

With its proprietary software GUARDEAN RiskSuite, SHS VIVEON helps businesses in controlling and automating all risk-related customer processes: from data collection and data enhancement to automated application scoring and decisioning. CIC develops and sells its own highly efficient ERP software solutions for leasing and financing companies.

Merging the product families CICone and GUARDEAN resulted in the comprehensive solution GuardKeeper - a portal software for financial service providers, and vendors in particular. It enables them to create calculations and quotations in a highly standardised way, while it checks all information from the beginning for quality, existence, risk, and intention to defraud. One of the essential organs of GuardKeeper is the Risk & Fraud Engine by SHS VIVEON. It makes it possible to evaluate a customer correctly in each phase of his life cycle, and to serve him in the best way. Rapid, transparent and verifiable credit decisions can be made simultaneously and are fully automatic.

"We are very pleased to have found in SHS VIVEON a strong partner in the area of customer risk management. For the benefit of our customers, we always strive for maximum efficiency in our software products. We achieve this through partnerships with high-performing specialized companies. In SHS VIVEON, we have found such a partner. At our joint event, we have already approached important market-relevant topics, such as fraud prevention, new requirements on risk management, and modern process solutions for homogeneous processes," says Gudars Ahrabian, Managing Director of CIC Software GmbH.

"In order to make rapid, transparent, high-quality credit decisions, a top priority consists in modelling the credit decision process in an efficient and verifiable way, and to execute it with a high degree of automation and performance. With the integration of the GUARDEAN RiskSuite into the GuardKeeper portal software, these requirements are fully met. For financial service providers, we jointly offer an all-in-one solution for the management of their customers - tailored to individual needs and easy to adapt," comments Dr. Jörg Seelmann-Eggebert, Director of SHS VIVEON AG.

Stefan Gilmozzi, Chairman of the Board at SHS VIVEON AG, is also pleased about the new partnership: "We welcome CIC as another competent partner for us to maximise customer benefit through valuable synergies, and to extend our value chain. With GuardKeeper, we have succeeded in establishing new solution competencies, particularly in the area of sales financing. The cooperation with CIC represents another important step in consolidating our presence in the leasing and financing market."

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