Byrom & Keeley (Call Recorder)

Key Facts

Industry Debt Management
Business need PCI compliance / fact verification
Xarios solution Call Recorder, 90-channel

About Byrom & Keeley

Byrom and Keeley Financial Services is one of the UK's most respected debt solutions providers, offering debt advice and help to thousands of individuals and families who want to escape from the burden of unmanageable debt.

Byrom and Keeley pride themselves on strong ethical values, which are crucial to the success of their business. Their services aim to provide customers with the help they need to pay back their debts and to regain control of their finances.

Providing national solutions, they have grown to almost 150 members of staff by offering sound advice and delivering workable, sensible solutions at a personal level.

The Challenge

With the primary objective of protection for the consumer, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) has established a legal requirement that calls should be recorded. In addition to this, the Payment Card Industry (PCI) insist that merchants take steps to secure the integrity of card holder data.

In the debt management industry it is essential and legally required for organisations to meet these regulations, meaning companies like Byrom and Keeley face a technological dilemma. Using their own in-house designed database system, Byrom and Keeley wanted to stop the recording at the point when an agent takes a credit card payment.

The Xarios Solution

The Xarios Enterprise Call Recorder has been an invaluable solution for Byrom and Keeley to meet FSA regulatory obligations and demonstrate PCI compliance with the aim of protecting the consumer from credit card fraud.

"The ability to automatically pause and resume phone calls with the Xarios Call Recorder means we are able to take credit card payments over the phone without capturing the consumer's card details in the recording. This consequently means we are compliant with PCI regulations as well as saving crucial time by removing agent intervention."

Gareth Sharp, Byrom & Keeley

In addition to meeting industry standards, the Xarios Call Recorder provides Byrom and Keeley with the opportunity to train and monitor staff to ensure they are fully compliant with internal policies.

What makes Xarios different?

Xarios offer an automated pause/resume capability via CTI integration to Byrom and Keeley's CRM database which automates the task of stopping and restarting the Call Recorder. This, in turn, prevents agent intervention and saves time by removing the need to manually pause and restart the recording.

The Xarios Call Recorder ensures that all calls are encrypted using the AES 256 bit standard whilst maintaining a secure password policy for user access rights. User profiles can be barred from saving or emailing calls and Xarios also offer a manual pause/resume capability via DTMF detection and Button Toolbar software, all of which, ensures that Byrom and Keeley remain fully compliant with regulatory standards.

"Xarios have been fantastic in providing us with the level of support that we've required internally."

Gareth Sharp, Byrom & Keeley