ImageSpan’s LicenseStream and arvato finance services’ PaymentLounge Unify the Global Trade of Digital Content

Supported by PaymentLounge’s Premium Merchant Services, LicenseStream creates a Global Content Clearinghouse Chosen by Leading Publishing and Media Companies, including the Chicago Tribune and McEvoy Group, Publisher of SPIN Magazine, Chronicle Books.

ImageSpan Inc. and arvato finance services Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of arvato AG, a Bertelsmann company, today announced their platform collaboration enabling LicenseStream to deliver a global clearinghouse that unifies, drives and accelerates the trade of digital content, including video, images, audio and text. The new global content clearinghouse combines ImageSpan’s automated content licensing, publishing and tracking platform, called LicenseStream, with arvato finance’s PaymentLounge, premium merchant services consisting of global billing, accounting and payment components.

Microsoft partners with arvato to deliver global business process outsourcing efficiencies

Microsoft has signed a global business process outsourcing partnership with arvato AG, one of the world’s largest internationally networked media and communication services providers. The five-year agreement - which sees Microsoft consolidating operational activities for several key business lines previously handled by multiple suppliers with one vendor - commences in January 2010. arvato will support this business globally from their operations based in Dublin, Singapore, Reno (Nevada) Fargo (North Dakota), Manila and Buenos Aires.

arvato UK & Ireland signed sponsorship agreements for three major BPO conferences

To create a higher brand awareness in the UK and develop new client relations the arvato UK & Ireland group has chosen to sponsor a series of BPO conferences within the first half of 2010. The three sponsored conferences – the Shared Services & Outsourcing Summit, the European Shared Services & Outsourcing Week and the Order-to-Cash Summit – rank among the most important Shared Services events in the European marketplace and they have achieved a good reputation in professional circles over the years.

Another successful SAS70 audit for arvato finance

For the sixth consecutive year arvato finance received an unqualified auditor’s opinion according to the Statement of Auditing Standards No. 70 (SAS70). SAS70 is an internationally-recognised standard developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). 

Fostering the security culture at arvato finance

Obtaining PCI certification for more than four years in a row and successfully passing annual SAS70 audits for the sixth consecutive time (covered in the third article of this newsletter) are some of the most apparent results of arvato finance’s long-time investments in technical security and its overall commitment to security topics in general.