Andera Inc., a Providence-based firm marketing technology that enables banking customers to open new accounts online, last week announced it has formed a strategic relationship with Yodlee Inc., another pioneer in online banking services.

Until now, the company’s account opening platform did not offer state-of-the-art security features that major banks and financial institutions look for.

“This partnership with Yodlee allows us finally to fill that gap once and for all, in a way that doesn’t just catch us up to everybody else – it actually vaults us way ahead of everybody else and turns what used to be our biggest gap into what’s now become one of our biggest strengths,” Kroll said. “I don’t want to throw the term ‘category killer’ around too easily, but if there ever was one, I think this is it.”