Urban FT, a white-label mobile banking and mobile check depositservices provider, and Fortress Plus, financial fraud preventionsolutions supplier, partnered to co-market their services to creditunions and community banks.

The New York City-based Urban FT CEO Richard Steggall said, “Ouragreement pulls together two key elements of what today's smallerFIs need to combat the challenge of big banks and nonbanks – aneasily implementable, cost-effective mobile banking solutionoffering exceptional UX and best-in-breed fraud preventionsolutions that protect FIs from fraudsters who prey on them.”

“Richard and I, backed by our organizations, know that ourclients are hungry for more than 'just OK' services, because 'justOK' – especially in mobile banking and fraud prevention – doesn'tcut it any longer,” the Wethersfield, Conn.-based Fortress PlusPresident Jeff Whelton added. Whelton explained legacy systemstrapped smaller financial institutions without the benefits a modernarchitecture provides. “By co-marketing, we bring ourrespective best-in-breed solutions to more financial institutionsthat need and deserve the advantages we offer.”