HiQ manages service development project for Nordea

HiQ manages service development project for Nordea The Nordic IT and management consultancy HiQ is managing a project to develop new pension and life assurance services for Nordea's private customers. Nordea is a leading player within the financial services sector in Scandinavia and the Baltic states. It is also the world-leader in Internet banking, with 3.1 million users. "HiQ has been responsible for project management, auditing and quality- assurance of Nordea Solo's new pension and life assurance service. The service - which is available now - allows customers to administer and manage their savings more clearly and more simply. Everything that you can do through an advisor at a bank branch you can now also do via the Internet," says Patrik Boman, Managing Director of HiQ Stockholm. Nordea's Solo service lets customers change details such as beneficiaries, payment dates and ages or take out a new pension plan via the Internet - a service that Nordea is unique in offering in the Swedish market. "With HiQ's help Nordea was able to create an advanced system solution on which our new services are based. HiQ has helped to ensure that the services are of consistently high quality and provide added value for our customers," says Mikaela Laurell, Development Manager Pensions & Life at Nordea. "Internet services in the banking and insurance sector need to be audited and assured based on criteria such as performance and security. The system must be able to be used 24 hours a day and each transaction must function perfectly. With a number of similar projects behind us, HiQ has a good knowledge of the aspects that need to be taken into consideration when developing this type of system," says Boman. For more information, please contact: Patrik Boman, MD HiQ Stockholm, tel: +46 8 588 900 00 Anna Svensson CIO HiQ International, tel.: +46 704 200 103 HiQ is an IT and management consultancy that focuses on high-tech solutions in the fields of communication and simulation technology. The company is a leader in these fields and the Nordic region is its domestic market. HiQ employs around 475 people at offices in Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway. HiQ is listed on Stockholmsbörsen. For more information, please visit www.hiq.se. ------------------------------------------------------------ This information was brought to you by Waymaker http://www.waymaker.net The following files are available for download: http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2002/10/21/20021021BIT00190/wkr0001.doc http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2002/10/21/20021021BIT00190/wkr0002.pdf