Azie App

Our FTSI App Development Team uses a mix of D4 and Agile methodologies to discover your concept, strategically design its consumer experience, develop it with best practices and deploy your app to the world. We provide you with the best opportunity to enter the app space with your best foot forward. Our Team of professional, cross-platform software developers have decades of experience. Our passion for software development and finding creative solutions to problems invigorates all aspects of our company.

How can you turn an idea into a successful app for your financial institution? It all starts here with strategic planning, landscape review, and goal setting. By reviewing the current landscape, we can establish a baseline of conversation. From your fears and hopes to traction items within each key channel, we will develop a clear picture of where your organization is. This strategic planning will iron out roadblocks and turn your hopes into a mechanism for achieving future success.

With over twenty years of experience, the FTSI Design Team has a true sense of design. We leverage our strong background in graphic design, manual dexterity, and a keen eye for precision as the building blocks of our expertise. Not limited to traditional views of form and function, we constantly push to stretch boundaries and find exciting new creative direction. Our momentum to move forward has led us to expand into layout design, user interface, 3D modeling, and front-end mobile and web development.

The ability to visualize and execute development is essential in the infancy of a project. That’s why our development team is heavily involved during the brainstorming and workflow steps. Conceptualizing each success element is vital to our approach to ensure the correct first steps are taken in the creation of ground-breaking software. When a road map is not available, we help define one by touching and interacting directly with a wealth of new ideas and established techniques to follow.

Once your app is live, it is a living thing that needs to change and grow with the industry.

We truly deliver the full package by continuing to support your app for as long as you need. We deliver the full package with distribution to Apple and Google stores, access to strategic marketing and consumer engagement tools, and continual support as your app grows with the industry.

Historically, low-income Black and African American populations are least likely to obtain approval for credit from mainstream financial institutions. Predatory institutions provide loans without a credit check but leverage these loans to make exorbitant amounts of profit when the borrower falls behind on a payment or becomes incapable of paying.

A significant challenge for these marginalized minority families is earning disparity. At the national level, the gap between Black and White annual household incomes is about $29,000 per year. In the Portland, OR area, African American family income is less than half that of White families, and the poverty rate among African American children is nearly 50% compared to 13% for white children.

Project Financial Stability aims to provide a solution using its products, services, and education to end the generational wealth gap in the Portland-metro black community.

These local equity and inclusion challenges matter to Unitus and the collaborators of Project Financial Stability. First, the purpose of the ULP and Unitus are congruent. Financial empowerment is a core purpose of Unitus. Second, local economic opportunities are limited because of financial injustice and exclusion. Project Financial Stability aims to remove financial barriers, thus increasing economic opportunity in the region. Increased economic opportunities improve education, health, employment, housing and financial security for the individual and the community as a whole. Financial access is key to removing racial inequalities. Unitus’ contribution to this project has other returns, such as improved community brand awareness and sustainable growth and consumer and community relevance.

Project Financial Stability provides a holistic approach to the generational wealth gap in the Black community.

Connecting Black Oregonians with financial products, services, and education from local credit unions that best align with their unique needs.

Azie’s calculator tools help to estimate payments on home, auto, and personal loans as well as credit card balances.

Ability to browse financial education options and get users connected with resources to help them on the journey to financial wellbeing.

Azie connects users with a financial coach who is familiar with their needs to develop a personalized, achievable plan that works for them.

Named “Azie” after Azie Taylor Morton, the only African American woman to hold the position of Treasurer of the United States, the new mobile app aims to foster financial and housing stability while creating and sustaining generational wealth for underserved individuals and their families.

The incredible Azie Taylor Morton was a teacher, politician and the only African American to hold the position of Treasurer of the United States. Azie Taylor Morton’s story is a story of perseverance and empowerment. Morton, a sharecropper from rural Texas who became the Treasurer of the United States, is a testament to how one can defy unfair circumstances to become the champion of your own destiny.​