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As part of our continual commitment to all our
customers we are now offering a new System Health Check initiative.
This is designed to clean, protect and maintain your system and
give the necessary recommendations that will assist the Credit Union
to operate a system with the confidence it warrants.
Fern's new Internet banking system, creditunion365
allows members to access their data online through a web browser
at any time and anywhere in the world.
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Shanghai
Following up the previous two visits to Mainland China, Mr Eamon Scullin,
Managing Director of Fern, joined the Northern Ireland Trade Mission
to China from November 26 to December 6, which was organised by the
Trade International Northern Ireland. During this third visit, he
had further discussion with the Top Group in Shanghai on building
up corporation between the two companies. Top Group is China's key
hi-tech enterprise and a national level enterprise technology centre.
Now it has total assets exceeding 3 Billion RMB and a 5000 staff.
Mr Scullin also visited the Shanghai Software Park located in Pudong,
one of the two national level software parks in China set up by
the State Development Planning Commission. During his visit, one
of the membership enterprises, Shanghai Prowise Technology Co.,
Ltd. praised Cubis 2005 for its functionality and quality design.
They expressed their interest in working with Fern to localise and
distribute Fern's products in Mainland China, and expect to take
this forward in the near further.
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Philippines
Fern has recently appointed a new representative, Ms Lucy G. Furo
for the Philippines. Ms Furo is the CEO of Philippines Federation
of Teachers and Employees Cooperative (PFTEC), which has been actively
promoting Credit Union Banking Information System (Cubis) among its
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Southeast Asia
Managing Director Eamon Scullin visited Southeast Asia in May with
the purpose of visiting existing customers in Hong Kong and the Philippines,
as well as finding opportunities in Taiwan and Mainland China.
During his visit to Taiwan, Mr Scullin discussed with Mr. Hsiao
Chengxin, the chairman of Credit Union League of R.O.C (Taichung),
the possibility of introducing Cubis 2005 to the Credit Unions in
Taiwan.
It was Mr Scullin's third visit to China and he is positively seeking
opportunities to establish business relationship between Fern and
Chinese software companies, in order to expand business into the
biggest market in Asia. On his return from China, Mr Scullin commented,
"China is a tremendous market for almost every business, although
there are also certain risks there. However, with China's opening
up to the world and the entry to WTO, there will be more business
opportunities and it is worth taking the risk. I had several very
constructive meetings with Chinese software companies in Beijing
and Shanghai.
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Hefei
Invited by the Foreign Affairs Office of Hefei Municipal Government,
Mr Eamon Scullin paid a two day visit to Hefei, the capital city of
Anhui Province. He was received by the Mayor of Hefei, Mr Guo Yuanqing
on December 1st in the Hefei Municipal Government, where the Mayor
introduced the recent development of IT industry in Hefei and the
efforts made to encourage local software companies in terms of internationalisation,
outsourcing and creating brand names. The Mayor welcomed the initiative
taken by Fern to establish corporation with Chinese software companies,
and both sides anticipated the perspective of technology exchange
and co-development of financial software between Fern and Hefei software
companies.
Afterwards Mr Scullin visited the Hefei Software Park where he
introduced Fern and its main products to Mr. Xu Ruyang, the Director
of the park, and visited three software companies which all specialised
in financial software.
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