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How Great Lakes Credit Union and Janusea Worked Together to Make a Branch Acquisition a Tech Success

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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

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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

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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

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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. 

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ASAPP Financial Technology and Janusea Cement Strategic Partnership to Integrate bank.io OXP®

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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. 

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Janusea Secures Strategic Investment and Partnership with Meritrust Credit Union to Accelerate Core Integration Solutions

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Cypress, TX – July 16, 2024 –  Janusea, a leading fintech company providing an integration platform that connects credit unions and community banks with innovative fintech solutions, is excited to announce a strategic investment and partnership with Meritrust Credit Union. This collaboration will bolster Janusea’s connections with core systems, expand its network of community financial institutions (increase the number of community financial institutions), and grow the platform’s ecosystem of software providers. Janusea enables seamless financial technology integrations, restores vendor choice for CFIs, and accelerates value through quick integration. 

The partnership between Janusea and Meritrust reflects a shared vision for overcoming the core integration barriers and challenges within the financial sector. Meritrust’s investment in Janusea underscores their commitment to innovation and streamlining fintech connections. Both organizations are dedicated to simplifying technology integration, enabling faster and more efficient connections between fintech solutions and credit union cores. 

“The Janusea platform introduces a new approach to integration and core connectivity delivering immediate innovation and value to our industry. Meritrust shares our vision for fostering collaboration and opening doorways for people and systems to work together. Their investment and support expand the current connections and unlock significant scalability with every platform partner and financial institution eager to work together.” – Kyle Stutzman, CEO at Janusea

Meritrust is looking to utilize Janusea’s platform to streamline internal processes, replace expensive and complicated on-prem middleware, and enhance member services, further solidifying their commitment to advancing financial technology.

“Like many financial institutions, we are dedicated to innovation and efficiency. With technology products quickly becoming outdated, launching new solutions takes significant time. Janusea’s platform answers our integration challenges and realigns our focus on providing members with optimal service across any channel they prefer.” – Cliff Shoff, SVP/CIO at Meritrust Credit Union

This collaborative effort sets the stage for credit unions of all sizes to adapt and thrive in the fast-evolving financial landscape, fostering an environment where technological advancements and seamless integration are prioritized. Integrations are now possible for all credit unions without the huge cost and time challenges of the past. 

About Meritrust Credit Union  

Meritrust Credit Union is committed to providing exceptional financial services and fostering innovation through strategic partnerships and advanced technology. Team Meritrust is making our world a better place for their members and communities, one exceptional service experience at a time. With a mission of improving the lives of members and the communities they serve, Meritrust offers the products, services and tools their members need to achieve their financial goals with confidence. For more information visit https://www.meritrustcu.org 

About Janusea 

Janusea, Inc. fills a technology gap in the community financial institution space, connecting credit unions and community banks with today’s innovative fintech solutions. Many fintechs cannot communicate with a financial institution’s legacy core system or would spend years working on integrations to cover the scope of our industry. Janusea is the connection between many worlds via a fully hosted platform delivered securely using the cloud. Ultimately, Janusea provides community financial institutions and fintechs with speed to market, free choices to work with the best solutions, any FIs, and sustainable API integration. For more information, visit www.janusea.com

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BankingON Partners with Janusea to Empower Credit Unions to serve Millennial Parents with Teenagers

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Cypress, TX, April 2, 2024 – Janusea, provider of seamless and secure integrations to credit union core systems, is pleased to announce its strategic partnership with BankingON, the developers of the family banking platform Boucoup. By becoming a Janusea platform partner, BankingON will be able to expedite the implementation process and ensure the utmost integrity and reliability of banking core integrations.

“Our partnership with Jausea is going to boost the scale and reliability of the Boucoup platform,” said Alexey Krasnoriadtsev, CEO at BankingON. “Those who have experience working on core platforms understand the difficulties that come with interfacing a product with multiple cores. With Janusea, we can focus on improving the Boucoup product, bringing value to teenagers and their parents, and in some sense allows us to be core agnostic.”

The Boucoup digital mobile banking application platform will provide credit unions with a solution that grows their minor accounts, helps its members build confidence in the financial system, and even graduates them when they turn 18. As such, this partnership allows BankingON to deliver a platform which maintains memberships within the credit union’s core and builds brand familiarity.

Since Janusea shoulders the burden of core integrations for credit unions and fintechs alike, this partnership gives BankingON the ability to normalize otherwise disparate member data across many cores.

“Especially in the case of our fintech partners,” said Janusea’s CEO Kyle Stutzman, “Janusea’s main purpose is to let companies like BankingON be innovative. There is already a high barrier to entry within the financial industry. So, not having to worry about how your product is going to unify its integrations from customer to customer, opens a lot of doors and possibilities.”

By leveraging Janusea’s game-changing integration solution, Boucoup provides parents with the chance to instill sound financial habits in their children. This is achieved through securely overseeing money management using a cutting-edge mobile app seamlessly integrated into the credit union experience. 

About BankingON

BankingON is an Austin-based CUSO of B2B2C digital banking solutions committed to empowering Credit Unions to help parents raise money-smart children. Boucoup, its family finance platform, helps CUs offer a valuable, free, branded mobile app for parents and teens. With Boucoup, parents can teach teens essential money skills, including earning, spending, and saving, through a fun and interactive platform. Teen-optimized UI and features include instant allowances, chore-based rewards, flexible spending controls, and real-time transaction notifications, all within one seamless mobile app. To learn more about Boucoup, visit us at https://www.boucoup.com or send us an email at info@boucoup.com.

About Janusea 

Janusea, Inc. fills a technology gap in the community financial institution space, connecting credit unions and community banks with today’s innovative fintech solutions. Many fintechs cannot communicate with a financial institution’s legacy core system. Janusea is the connection between these two worlds via a fully-hosted platform delivered securely using the cloud. Ultimately, Janusea provides community financial institutions with speed to market, free choices to work with the best solutions and sustainable API integration. For more information, visit www.janusea.com.

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Janusea Achieves SOC 2 Type II Attestation

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Janusea, an integration platform provider for fintechs and financial institutions, announces the successful completion of its SOC 2 Type II attestation. This attestation, obtained after a thorough evaluation by CyberGuard Compliance, validates Janusea’s dedication to ensuring and maintaining the highest industry standards of security, availability, processing integrity, and confidentiality of its systems and services.

CyberGuard Compliance, founded in 2011, specializes in addressing service-related risks for clients worldwide and offers tailored solutions to organizations ranging from Fortune 50 Companies to start-ups. Their meticulous approach ensures that all service-related risks are effectively managed, providing clients with peace of mind and confidence in their operations.

As fintechs and financial institutions navigate the complexities of digital transformation, Janusea remains a trusted partner, offering reliable and seamless legacy banking core integration solutions and technology that enable organizations to innovate and thrive in the evolving landscape of financial services. The SOC 2 Type II attestation reaffirms Janusea’s commitment to delivering integration solutions that are secure, compliant, and meet the needs of the industry.

“We know our customers provide trusted services to their members, customers, and financial institutions.” says Kyle Stutzman, CEO of Janusea. “We are proud to be part of this industry and strive to maintain the highest levels of trust, internal controls, and compliance needed by our partners.”

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Datava Joins Janusea Platform to Deliver Real-Time Integration in Member Relationship Management and Business Intelligence

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Houston, TX – March 16, 2023 – Datava, a leading platform for member relationship management and business intelligence tools has partnered with Janusea, a leading fintech company focused on integrations that connect credit unions and community banks with today’s innovative fintech solutions. Datava joining Janusea’s core-connector platform allows them to deliver their real-time integration in member relationship management and business intelligence solutions for credit unions.

According to Janusea CEO Kyle Stutzman, this partnership allows credit unions to remain inside Datava’s toolset (data sets or workflows) without having to flip back and forth from one screen to another – which is a huge time saver in member services. Janusea’s connector enables Datava’s technology to be more active, efficient, and, ultimately, help the member in an extremely timely manner.

“We’re very excited to part of what Datava is doing, as they already have incredible technology and a very exciting roadmap,” Stutzman says. “In addition, the culture of their company fits perfectly with credit unions and we look forward to making these worlds connect more efficiently all in real time – and adding value to what Datava already provides.”

According to Datava’s Founder/CEO Gordon Flammer, credit unions are currently balancing Datava’s tools with their core systems, which is inherently inefficient – literally jumping between screens/systems to serve members. Janusea provides the vital connector with a credit union’s core to effectively and efficiently use Datava’s toolset to do everything in their real-time member dashboard environment: one system.

“We’re super excited about the enhanced value that we can provide our clients now working with Janusea and what their ‘connector’ technology allows us to do for our clients,” Flammer says. “With Janusea, our clients can connect the two systems so credit union staff only have to work in one system – not two – which is way more efficient and equates to much better member service.”

A typical use case would be within a credit union’s call center: A member calls into a call center and the MSR verifies the member, Datava’s system kicks in with that member’s real-time info in a dashboard format. With Janusea, its connector rails will allow Datava to retieve that member’s information much quicker in real time, which, again, results in better, faster member service – especially in a call center environment where every second counts.

“It fits so well with what we’re doing,” Flammer adds. “It allows us to be that true front end for our clients – and enables credit unions to be data driven and member focused. Super excited to work with an organization like Janusea that has the same attitude and drive as Datava.”

“We’re more than happy to add value to Datava’s toolset – which also adds value to Janusea’s platform offerings,” Stutzman says. “Now other credit unions using Janusea can have access to Datava’s technology without any significant implementation, allowing all parties to win.”

About Datava

About DatavaDatava combines data integration, curation and analysis with relationship management, data visualization, and workflow tools to provide a suite of Member Relationship Management (MRM) and Business Intelligence solutions, built specifically for credit unions. Datava enables credit unions to deepen member satisfaction, grow revenue, reduce manual processes, and increase employee productivity without requiring any internal management, and at half the cost of any other solution on the market. Datava’s modules include Relationship Management, Goals and Incentive Tracking, Onboarding Manager, Campaign Success Management, Referral Management, Indirect Lending, Business Intelligence, Loan Application Pipeline, SEG (Select Employer Group) Management, Outbound Prospecting, Predictive Analytics, Problem Resolution/Compliance, Learning Management Data Warehouse and more. On average, Datava’s clients achieve an impressive 20% increase in new loan dollars and 50% increase in cross-sell. Learn more at www.datava.com.

About Janusea

Janusea, Inc. fills a technology gap in the community financial institution space, connecting credit unions and community banks with today’s innovative fintech solutions. Many fintechs cannot communicate with a financial institution’s legacy core system. Janusea is the connection between these two worlds via a fully-hosted platform delivered securely using the cloud. Ultimately, Janusea provides community financial institutions with speed to market, free choices to work with the best solutions, and sustainable API integration. For more information, visit janusea.com.

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Janusea Launches New API Platform to Connect Credit Union and Bank Cores with Today’s Fintechs

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Kyle Stutzman headshotJanusea, a leading fintech company focused on integrations, has launched a new API Cloud Platform to connect financial institutions’ legacy cores with today’s growing population of fintechs. Janusea’s integration platform works by providing a common message set, developed with the community financial institution industry, that enables one message set to be translated to legacy messaging.

According to Janusea CEO Kyle Stutzman, fintechs don’t have to write to multiple legacy systems anymore, and credit unions and community banks don’t have to re-implement legacy connections for new fintech solutions. Janusea’s API connection can be used for all fintech solutions, connecting these two worlds and allowing more financial institutions to benefit from the latest fintech solutions.

“To put it plainly, Janusea provides the solution, not just a tool,” explains Tina Baker, Janusea Chief Product Officer.  “We fully host, integrate, support, and maintain all connectivity.  We solve the problem and enable innovation by connecting two separate worlds, bringing value to both.”

Baker says the lack of core integrations limits and confuses FIs who need to know if systems can integrate.  Integration limitations and ongoing maintenance impede fintechs’ ability to implement and scale their solutions with community FIs.
Stutzman adds that many credit unions and community banks have limited resources and experience with their integrations and data sets.  “They need a turn-key integration solution and someone to help guide them through a quick and successful implementation, secure connections, and ongoing maintenance and support of the connections,” he says.

According to Terry McMullen, Janusea Chief Operations Officer, the technology firm took parts of the Kiva Group and Pure IT Credit Union Services to create this new Janusea solution.  This solution brings over 20 years of core data integrations, credit union, community bank, and fintech experience and connections.

“The combination of technology, people, and experience is powerful to connect these two worlds for a better future,” he says. “For added clarity, both Kiva Group and Pure IT continue forward with their missions and services but have contributed all key assets, people, and resources related to APIs into this new organization to transform integrations for community financial institutions.”

“Janusea is not the next single-focused fintech application.  It is not the next digital bank or credit union app,” Jack Smith, Janusea Chief Revenue Officer, says. “Janusea is the catalyst that will take what is currently smoldering and blow it up into a transformation explosion, leveling the playing field so that all fintech solutions and financial institutions can work together without barriers.”