NTT Data and the Nomura Research Institute (NRI) have entered a joint venture to deliver aggregation and alerts services to financial institutions and portals in Japan. The two companies say they will market technology from Toronto-based 724 Solutions' to banks throughout Japan in the third quarter of 2001.
NRI and NTT Data will be offering a Japanese-language version of 724 Solutions' LiveClips product and alerting functionality for the online Internet. Both LiveClips and 724 Solutions' alerts technology support double-byte characters that enable the services to be offered in the Japanese language and are designed to comply with local business practices.
Japanese financial institutions and portals can use the technology to offer consumers the ability to cut-and-paste their favourite Web content onto personalised pages using LiveClips' LiveClipper tool, access a consolidated view of their Web-based accounts through LiveClips' personal summary and receive personalised alerts on their desktop.