EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. -

American Recovery Service and financial services partner SWBC recently completed technology integration geared to streamline systems and business processes between the companies.

ARS aims to provide nationwide servicing of asset repossessions, skip-tracing, impounded asset retrieval, license plate recognition recovery and online remarketing, which will now be available to credit unions utilizing SWBC’s AutoPilot, a suite of risk management services.

Through this integration, SWBC is able to provide its partners with access to one of the largest asset recovery companies in the nation without any disruption to their current repossession process.

ARS uses its client integration platform architecture to incorporate third-party technology vendors into ARS’s comprehensive suite of services. Digital Recognition Network is ARS’s LPR partner, and OPENLANE is ARS’s online remarketing partner. Meanwhile, SWBC, RDN, iRepo and Fair Isaac provide client integration solutions. 

“One of our goals in 2012 is to expand our relationships with credit unions across the U.S., and it was an easy decision to partner with SWBC in order to make this goal a reality,” explained ARS chief executive officer Peter Willingham.

“The two teams have achieved a seamless integration between our companies that is real-time, robust and built on our proprietary client integration platform (CIP) architecture,” Willingham continued.

“The SWBC integration adds to our widespread use of CIP across many different technology platforms,” he went on to say. “We are excited that through a single integration, we are able to provide a robust offering of services through SWBC’s AutoPilot platform.” 

To learn more about the full suite of services ARS offers, the company will be a participant at the following conferences:

—Governmental Affairs Conference (March 18–23)
—Texas Credit Union League’s Annual Meeting and Expo (April 18–20)
—League of Southwestern Credit Unions’ Annual Convention and Expo (June 12–15)
—California Credit Union Collectors Council’s 25th annual Education Conference (October 18–20)