This issue with the new portal for Swap Force is something I put to Studio Head Guha Bala in my interview with him just before the announcement.

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Bala explained, the issue here is the need to keep innovating with a Portal that is now coming up to three years old.

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Today if a bank wants to issue a letter of credit (LOC), they come into our client portal to do that and submit their LOC app through our proprietary portal.

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There is the introduction of a third iteration of some of the characters, like series 3 Stealth Elf, as well as the issue of having to buy a new Starter Pack this year as the old portal will be incompatible.

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