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How Great Lakes Credit Union and Janusea Worked Together to Make a Branch Acquisition a Tech Success
Great Lakes Credit Union’s COO Elizabeth Osborne and Janusea’s VP of Products and Platforms David Whitcomb joined the Studio Lounge to share how their teams—along with other key partners—transformed a branch acquisition into a technology success story in just two months.
Elizabeth and David broke down how they approached member conversion, managed the project timeline, and overcame common acquisition challenges. With an impressive 96% member retention rate post-conversion, the conversation highlights the growing importance of speed, efficiency, and strong collaboration in shaping future credit union strategies.
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NACUSO25: ASAPP and Janusea Cement Partnership to Integrate bank.io OXP at FIs Nationwide
Janusea’s CoFounder and CEO Kyle Stutzman and ASAPP Financial Technology’s President & CEO JR Pierman joined the Studio Lounge to share how their partnership is helping credit unions compete with direct-to-consumer fintechs by integrating ASAPP’s bank.io OXP® with core banking systems.
Kyle and JR discussed how the collaboration—sparked at last year’s NACUSO conference—is accelerating access to account and loan origination, CRM, ECM, and analytics tools for U.S. credit unions. With implementation already underway, the integration is designed to deliver immediate impact by enhancing member experience and operational efficiency.
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EMERGE25: How Janusea and Glide Partnership Allows Any Credit Union to Provide 2-Minute Account Opening
Janusea’s CoFounder and CEO Kyle Stutzman and Glide’s Founder and CEO Gautam Ajjarapu stopped by the Studio Lounge to discuss how their organizations’ partnership helps credit unions better integrate financial technology solutions no matter the core – two-minute account opening and loan origination in this case.
Kyle and Gautam talked about the partnership aiming to improve staff experiences and reduce manual tasks. They added that automation and AI integration are essential for streamlining operations.
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Ascensus Announces New Partnership with Janusea to Revolutionize IRA and HSA Administration
May 1, 2025 | Dresher, PA
Ascensus announced a new strategic partnership with Janusea to deliver a financial technology solution that streamlines IRA and health savings account (HSA) administration for financial institutions. Janusea’s product creates a direct integration between Ascensus’ technology platform and banks and credit unions, eliminating manual, dual entry of IRA and HSA transactions.
Ascensus currently offers full-service IRA and HSA administration as well as related services for approximately 5,500 financial organizations through its Retirement Products & Solutions (RPS) line of business. The new partnership combines Ascensus’ position as the leading provider of IRA and HSA services in the industry with Janusea’s deep experience bridging the gap between financial institutions and innovative fintech solutions.
“We’re thrilled to partner with Janusea to bring this innovative solution to our clients,” noted Anna Johnson, Head of Ascensus Retirement Products & Solutions. “Janusea believes integration should never be a barrier to innovation and is passionate about unlocking and accelerating financial technology for banks and credit unions. We’re proud to offer this turn-key solution with minimal implementation effort on our clients’ behalf, so banks and credit unions can spend more time doing what they do best and leave the data sharing and reconciliation to us.”
Key highlights of the integrated solution include:
– Comprehensive Implementation/Onboarding Support: Clients receive full support during the implementation and onboarding process, ensuring a smooth transition.
– Productivity Gains for Front-Line Staff: Elimination of dual data entry means front-line staff can operate more efficiently.
– Data Entry Error Reduction: Utilizing Ascensus’ integrated and compliance-driven workflows virtually eliminates common errors.
– Modern Tech Stack: Backend technology streamlines operations and simplifies account management to scale clients’ IRA and HSA programs with minimal development effort.
– Improved Transaction Efficiency: An integrated solution processes IRA and HSA transactions with far greater efficiency.
– Secure and Compliant Integration: Secure and compliant integration of retirement and savings solutions is assured.
– Expanded Reach: Clients will have access to integration with more than 20 core systems.
“Technology, expertise, and partnership are shared values for both of our companies, and we are excited to bring real-time, two-way communication with Ascensus to banks and credit unions,” said Kyle Stutzman, CEO and CoFounder of Janusea. “Ascensus brings purpose-built IRA and HSA technology to financial institutions and offers expertise in retirement and other tax-advantaged savings accounts. Their partnership to expand services, deepen client relationships, and grow assets at banks and credit unions aligns perfectly with the value Janusea strives for in our business. Through our technology platform, integration expertise, and commitment to partnership, we believe we are stronger when working together.”
About Ascensus
Ascensus provides market-leading technology, services and expertise that help millions of people save for a better today and tomorrow through tax-advantaged savings.
The company’s Retirement Products & Solutions (RPS) line of business provides compliance support, training, forms, mailing services, and full service administration to banks and credit unions.
Ascensus is also a premier savings program service provider, third-party administrator, and government savings facilitator. Its platforms, industry knowledge, and data-based insights enhance the growth and success of its partners, their clients, and savers through co-branded, private-labeled, and governmental partnerships.
Ascensus offers comprehensive qualified and nonqualified retirement plan solutions, third-party retirement plan administration, 529 education and ABLE savings program administration, corporate- and bank-owned life insurance solutions, and fiduciary and total rewards services.
The company’s brands include Ascensus; Newport, an Ascensus company; and FuturePlan by Ascensus. Ascensus has more than $862 billion in assets under administration and employs more than 5,100 associates as of March 31, 2025.
For more information, visit ascensus.com and newportgroup.com.
About Janusea
Janusea, Inc. bridges the technology gap between financial institutions and today’s most innovative fintech solutions. Many fintechs face challenges when communicating with legacy core systems at credit unions and community banks, often requiring years of development to achieve full integration. Janusea connects these worlds through a secure, cloud-based, fully hosted platform. With a focus on speed to market, freedom to choose the best solutions, and sustainable API integration, Janusea enables seamless collaboration between fintechs and financial institutions.
ASAPP Financial Technology and Janusea Cement Strategic Partnership to Integrate bank.io OXP®
April 16, 2025 | Toronto, Canada | Petoskey, Michigan | Tomball, Texas
After meeting for the first time, one year ago at the NACUSO conference in Kissimmee, Florida, ASAPP and Janusea are excited to announce at this year’s NACUSO conference in Las Vegas, the formation of a new strategic partnership.
When ASAPP’s bank.io OXP® | Omnichannel Experience Platform Version 1.0 launches in the United States this summer, it will leverage Janusea’s fully hosted and supported, secure integration translation platform that facilitates effortless connections with multiple core banking systems.
“ASAPP is very excited to partner with the team at Janusea to leverage their extensive experience and expertise in helping fintechs and credit unions establish critical connections with core banking systems. This strategic partnership will allow our Platform including both our origination and bi-directional core-banking integrated CRM feature sets to be ready for implementation,” noted JR Pierman, President & CEO, ASAPP Financial Technology. “From our initial meeting to our newly formed partnership, it’s been a great journey, and both of our teams are very passionate about how we can support our credit union Client-Partners through this new partnership!”.
The team at Janusea and ASAPP’s Platform Development team will leverage both Janusea’s proprietary capabilities and extensive experience along with ASAPP’s uniCORE unified core banking connection engine to build initial connections between Jack Henry Symitar, Fiserv DNA, and Correlation Keystone core banking systems and ASAPP Financial Technology’s bank.io OXP® | Omnichannel Experience Platform.
“Our team is proud to partner with the team at ASAPP to support their US launch and help them continue to deliver on their vision of supporting credit unions as they compete against direct-to-consumer fintechs,” said Kyle Stutzman, CEO of Janusea. “Our shared commitment to empowering credit unions drives us to create and foster collaboration like this strategic partnership with ASAPP to ultimately help the credit union movement support their members and communities.”
Joint development activities will be kicking off immediately as the teams are aligned for the upcoming bank.io OXP® US launch across this summer.
About ASAPP Financial Technology:
ASAPP Financial Technology provides
Customer Experience Software that supports regulated financial institutions as they Originate, Onboard, Understand, and Grow their Customer Relationships. In Canada, the ASAPP OXP® | Omnichannel Experience Platform has help over 50 Canadian credit unions create sustainable competitive advantages to compete against direct-to-consumer fintech solutions. In the United States, the bank.io OXP® | Omnichannel Experience Platform delivers Origination and Engagement feature sets that leverage our experience gained supporting Canadian financial institutions, while delivering a solution that adapts to the challenges and opportunities for the US credit union and community bank markets.
About Janusea
Janusea, Inc. bridges the technology gap between community financial institutions and today’s most innovative fintech solutions. Many fintech’s face challenges when trying to communicate with legacy core systems at credit unions and community banks, often requiring years of development to achieve full integration. Janusea connects these worlds through a secure, cloud-based, fully hosted platform. With a focus on speed to market, freedom to choose the best solutions, and sustainable API integration, Janusea enables seamless collaboration between fintech’s and financial institutions.
GAC25: Janusea Execs Talk How Core Integration Can Accelerate Deposit Growth
Kyle Stutzman, Co-Founder and CEO of Janusea, and Masako Long, VP of Sales, recently joined the Studio Lounge to share how Janusea’s core integration technology accelerates deposit growth and powers credit union initiatives.
Tune in to hear their insights on the latest fintech use case trends and how Janusea is helping credit unions drive meaningful innovation.
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VentureTech24: Janusea Execs Talk About the Importance of Pilot Programs
Kyle Stutzman, Co-Founder and CEO of Janusea, and Masako Long, VP of Sales, discuss the importance of pilot programs in managing risks while adopting new technology. They also share insights into the exciting future of fintech and the evolving role of credit unions in driving industry innovation.
Tune in to hear their perspectives on embracing change and preparing for what’s next in the financial landscape.
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Corelation’s 2024 CEO and CTO Forum: Interview with Kyle Stutzman On How Credit Unions Can Make Better Use Of Their Data
Kyle Stutzman, Co-Founder and CEO of Janusea, speaks at the 2024 Corelation’s CEO and CTO Forum on how credit unions can better utilize their data to drive innovation, support strategic decision-making, and improve member experiences.
Watch to discover how credit unions can unlock their data’s full potential and stay ahead in a competitive financial landscape.
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TechOME24: PURE IT and Janusea Execs Share Lessons from Fintech and Credit Union Collaborations
Jack Smith, CEO, Pure IT Credit Union Services, and Kyle Stutzman, CEO, Janusea, joined us in the Studio Lounge to share highlights and insights from their conference session: “Navigating the Digital Shift: Lessons from Fintech and Credit Union Collaborations.”
In particular, Jack and Kyle talked about digital transformation strategies, emphasizing the need for adaptation among boards, executives, employees, and members.
They also stressed leadership’s role in fostering collaboration and the importance of integrating risk management and cybersecurity, along with the necessity of employee engagement for successful transformation.
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