About Us
- RBA International, Inc.
- P.O. Box 2896
- Vancouver, WA 98668
- 1-800-000-0000
- 360-608-5159
- 360-000-0000 (fax)
Innovative, secure solutions using the best experience and technology.
Who is RBA International?
RBA International provides financial and banking products, processing services, and secured hosting on a global basis. RBA provides a debit card processing platform for license to member banks. All cardholder support, order fulfillment, regulatory compliance review, settlement reporting, and security are included. In the course of developing these products and services, RBA has developed proprietary tools and methodologies for assessing, analyzing, and evaluating existing processes and procedures in use at client banks and financial institutions.Founded in 1994, RBA has serviced over 80 clients, including Fortune 500 companies. RBA's staff has won awards for technology innovations and successfully managed multi-million dollar projects. RBA uses advanced technologies designed for scalability, security, performance, and integration with legacy systems. RBA has applied for and received patents on banking technologies and methods, as well as for phone based Mobile Banking and security applications. RBA was runner-up for the 'Oscards 2006' Technology award for its Mobile Banking security innovations.
RBA's co-founders' experience goes back many years before that seminal date in 1994. They cut their engineering teeth in the world of the 'old' Hewlett Packard, when Bill and Dave still roamed the labs and passageways of HP. This was a time when solid engineering was deemed of greater value than marketing, and when technology was built to last.
Even at HP they were visionary. They automated and turned the lights out in the data center at a printer manufacturing facility in Vancouver WA. In doing so, they thereby increased its uptime by eliminating as much as possible human interactions. This allowed the plant to engage in a new manufacturing philosophy then known as 'Just in Time Manufacturing.' Their efforts received a great deal of notoriety and acclaim throughout HP.
Early on in its existence, RBA's technicians were involved with cellular phone technology supporting development work for the billing system for McCaw Cellular, which later became AT&T Wireless. RBA developed the technology behind one of the first US pre-paid phone cards for Bottomline Telecommunications which was bought by MCI Worldcom. RBA developed technology for the billing system for NTT DoCoMo Japan's pre-paid cell phones.
As on-line banking came to the fore RBA's professionals developed the On-line Express Banking for US Bank and on-line payment systems supporting Washington's King County licensing services.
In 2003, RBA conducted a Global IT Security Operations analysis for VISA International. Out of that analysis came an operational model for Global IT security that was adapted by the VISA Executive Management team.
RBA's Executive Team
RBA's executive team has worked together for over 20 years, receiving international recognition for innovations, including the MCI Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
Rene Babi
Founder and President
Mr. Babi has over 35 years of extensive international experience in business processes, banking systems, information systems technologies and methodologies, and organizational development. He has been described as an inventor and visionary.
Prior to founding RBA International, Rene served as Worldwide Service Systems Manager, Group Marketing Systems Manager, and IT Director for Hewlett Packard, IT Director for Mentor Graphics, and VP and CIO for Sequent Computer (now IBM). He has been the keynote speaker at numerous technology conferences by Apple, Hewlett Packard, Council of Logistics Management, Airfreight Forwarders, and recently the 2006 MVNO Conference in Las Vegas and the Alternative Payments Summit in Texas.
Since founding RBA International, Mr. Babi has founded and helped form numerous companies here and abroad. He has been a technology and business consultant for emerging and established companies, including such companies such as Visa, Nike, and Hewlett Packard.
Mr. Babi and his team have won prestigious awards for their innovations and strategic contributions. Foremost among these is the 'MCI Entrepreneur of the Year Award', and the recent nomination for the Oscards 2006.