To learn more about electronic check presentment, and ECP products and services, ECCHO recommends the following web sites:
(Click on the company names to go to their website)

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Abound Resources, Inc.

A leading technology advisory firm for community banks and credit unions, Abound Resources helps you make the right decisions. Guaranteed. Whether you are evaluating your core processor, negotiating technology contracts, purchasing remote deposit capture, or starting a de novo bank, Abound Resources offers both advisory services and web-based solutions that can meet most any need and budget for a variety of projects. Not simply a traditional consulting firm, Abound's methodology the RightTech™ Cycle, is a proven process that has been used successfully in over 400 technology vendor evaluation projects. Having been former COO's and CIO's of community financial institutions, Abound's executive team has the first hand experience to lead you through the process.

Affirmative Technologies, Inc.

Affirmative Technologies, Inc. is a leading applications’ software provider to the electronic payments industry. Our origination and processing platform includes both ACH and Check 21 items.  Our customers include the financial community, third party service providers and their business customers by offering a stand-alone or enterprise wide payment processing/risk management solution.   

Alabama Automated Clearing House Association (ALACHA)

Since 1976, the Alabama Automated Clearing House Association (ALACHA) has been Alabama's key connection to the ACH Network. A regional payment association of the National ACH Association (NACHA), ALACHA serves over 200 banks, savings and loans, credit unions, e-commerce, and affiliate companies within the state. ALACHA members benefit from operations and leadership consulting, marketing support services, ongoing education and training, informative publications, and an active forum of like-minded professionals. These are just a few of the benefits you can expect from the powerful partnership of ALACHA membership.  

All My Papers

All My Papers is the developer and distributor of software toolkits, applications and hardware that processes, extracts data, and prints check and document images.  All My Papers develops and distributes products for high accuracy and fast printing of Image Replacement Documents (IRDs), data extraction of the MICR line data on check images, reading of barcodes and printing of image based documents. All My Papers acquired all the products, source code, patents and trademarks of Seaport Imaging, Xionics XipPrint Division, GGX and Idata International.

Alogent

American Bankers Association
Based in Washington, DC, the ABA represents banks of all sizes on issues of national importance for financial institutions and their customers. The ABA, founded in 1875, brings together all categories of banking institutions, including community, regional and money center banks and holding companies, as well as savings associations, trust companies and savings banks.

America's Community Bankers
America's Community Bankers represents the nation's community banks of all charter types and sizes. ACB members pursue progressive, entrepreneurial and service-oriented strategies in providing financial services to benefit their customers and communities.

Aperta Inc.

Established in 1992, Aperta is an innovative company that has grown to become an acknowledged leader in payment processing solutions and applications for the commercial, public sector, banking and financial marketplace. Aperta item processing applications are installed in many countries in Africa, Europe, North America, Central and Latin America.

AQUBANC, LLC
Aqubanc® works with non-profit organizations to improve their Gift Receipting / Gift Processing and related internal operations.  Cheque 21® System is Aqubanc’s integrated SplitPath™ Process:  evaluate Total Transaction Throughput starting from when a donor’s gift arrives to which paths can optimize depositing to the bank and posting images and achieved data excellence via 2500M™ into fund raising and donor tracking software.

Arkansas Bankers' Bank
Arkansas Bankers’ Bank, chartered on April 17, 1990, currently serves approximately 150 Arkansas Community Banks by offering Cash Letter Services, Investments, Portfolio Accounting, Safekeeping, Loan Participations, Fed Fund Purchases and Sales plus many other services. Since 1990, ABB has been able to extend correspondent services while lowering overall costs to the Community Banks. The Board of Directors and staff will continue to make friendly, efficient and low-cost service our #1 goal.

Atlantic Central Bankers Bank

Atlantic Central Bankers Bank was chartered in 1983 as Pennsylvania Independent Bank. Seventy-three community bank shareholders invested the initial capital to form ACBB. We are a Pennsylvania state-chartered, Federal Reserve member bank serving over 250 shareholder banks in addition to many non-shareholder banks. As a “bankers bank,” we can do everything that a major correspondent bank can do – without competing for your customers.

Avalon International, Inc.

Avalon is quickly growing as a leading provider of payment processing solutions worldwide. We meet our customers’ needs with a total solution - encompassing image-based check and remittance processing, point of presentment solutions, ATMs, and fraud and security solutions. Together with strong software and hardware products, our services add immediate value to your investment in all areas – development, installations, training, consultation, and customer support. For 15 years Avalon has been the reliable, stable partner you rely on for innovative, scalable solutions and superior service.

Bank Administration Institute (BAI)
This site includes information on BAI sponsored conferences and events, an online version of Banking Strategies Magazine, and a good index of banking research and publications.

Bankers' Bank

Bankers’ Bank is a bank-owned bank that provides services only to financial institutions. Open since 1981, our main office is located in Madison, Wisconsin with a sales offices in Des Moines, Iowa.
As an independent source of non-competing financial services, the Bank serves a market of over 650 financial institutions located in the Midwest. We do not serve the general public and, therefore, do not compete with our clients. Our services strictly support our customers, providing them with effective tools to be competitive.

Bankers' Bank Northeast

Bankers' Bank Northeast is one of 21 Bankers' Banks nationwide doing business with more than 8,000 community banks and credit unions.  We are the single-source, cost effective provider of a broad range of traditional and new correspondent banking and funding services.  We are a resource partner and not a competitor. We offer a variety of correspondent services to community banks throughout the six New England states and New York.  Owned by our 41-investor banks, we only provide services to community banks. 

Bankers' Bank of Kansas, N.A.

Initiating business in 1988 and growing steadily ever since, BBOK offers the full range of correspondent banking services:  consultative problem-solving, online correspondent banking, credit card and merchant services, federal funds brokerage, participation loans, direct loans to bank officers and directors, bank stock financing, mortgage lending, safekeeping and portfolio accounting, cash management services, leasing, and much, much more. We are a correspondent bank exclusively. 

Bankers' Bank of the West

Bankers' Bank of the West was formed in 1980 to offer correspondent services to community banks, eliminating the disadvantage of having to rely on a correspondent that is also a competitor. In our 27 years of service, BBW has developed a reputation as a premier correspondent bank focusing on the success of community banks and financial institutions in the Rocky Mountain and western states region. We are owned by more then 150 of our customers - all community banks. We have some 330 customer relationships with banks in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming. 

BankWare
BankWare provides integrated Browser-based check imaging, document imaging, remittance imaging, and COLD solutions to more than 400 financial institutions throughout the US. 

Bearing Point
BearingPoint, Inc. (NYSE:BE) is one of the world’s largest business consulting, systems integration and managed services firms serving Global 2000 companies, medium-sized businesses, government agencies and other organizations. We provide business and technology strategy, systems design, architecture, applications implementation, network infrastructure, systems integration and managed services.

BITS
BITS, the Technology Group for The Financial Services Roundtable, was formed by the CEOs of the largest financial institutions in the United States as the strategic "brain trust" for the financial services industry in the e-commerce arena.

C & A Associates, Inc.

C&A Associates, Inc. offers a wide range of products and services to financial institutions. These products include ImageChex32 check imaging, archive and statement preparation and ProofPC32 image proof-of-deposit check and item processing. C&A products are fully Check 21 compliant, and over 60 C&A customers are now sending electronic cash letters to the Federal Reserve Bank or other correspondent banks. C&A customers are also utilizing the many advanced software features such as e-mail statements, branch capture, customer capture, and remittance processing.  Using the most up-to-date industry software development tools, C&A has developed a complete suite of systems for item processing, check imaging, microfilm replacement, and cash management.  As an approved reseller of most major manufacturers, we can provide a complete turnkey solution to your institution's item processing and imaging needs

Carreker Corporation
Carreker Corporation improves earnings for financial institutions around the world. Our integrated consulting and software solutions are designed to increase our clients' revenues and reduce their expenses, while improving security and increasing the value of their customer relationships.

Catch 21, Inc.

CATCH21 has extensive experience with Check 21 legislation. We have assisted many institutions and have helped bring hundreds of transit routing numbers on to the image exchange environment. With over 60 years of combined experience in check imaging, document management and information security, CATCH21’s diverse background provides cost effective, timely solutions where other providers fail to measure up.

Checkmation - a division of Datanet Solutions, Inc.

Since 1996, Datanet Solutions has been one of Southern California's premier providers of Document Imaging and Business Process Management software. Our development team is expert in the most current technologies in the document management field. From coast to coast, Datanet has developed tailored solutions for government, health care, financial, military, nonprofit, Legal and more. Datanet now offers plug-in tools for document image repositories, second generation Remote Deposit Capture suites as well as Image Cash Letter decision engines.

COCHA

The Central Oklahoma Clearing House Association (COCHA) is a non-profit 501c(6) business and trade organization. We exist to provide leading technology products and services to the financial institution industry.  COCHA, along with its members, were the first to exchange and settle items via the Endpoint Image Exchange.  Although our primary focus is to provide efficient and cost-effective solutions for the exchange of deposited items among financial institutions, we also offer our Members a variety of support services. Membership also provides a significant opportunity for the exchange of industry information at various levels.

Cole Taylor Bank

For more than 75 years, Cole Taylor has served the banking needs of Chicago-area businesses and the people who own and manage them. As a specialist in serving closely-held and family-managed businesses, we have clearly differentiated ourselves from competing providers of financial services. Our mission is to be the premier bank for Chicago-area businesses and the people who own and manage them. We will do this by providing expertise, dedication and personalized service that furthers our customers’ ability to achieve their financial goals.

CONIX Systems, Inc.
With the 1998 purchase of the former SSI Item Processing products from CheckFree Corporation, CONIX Systems, Inc. is one of the largest suppliers of Item Processing solutions, giving CONIX a dominant market position, offering a complete line of superior CPCS software products.

CPSA Check Payment Systems Association
Founded in 1952, the Check Payment Systems Association (CPSA) is a non-profit membership organization dedicated to advancing and promoting the long-term value of the paper-based payment system.

Data Management Products

Data Management Products (DMP) was founded in 1980 from a company that was internationally known for its electronic funds transfers systems. That understanding of internal banking operations provided the base from which DMP launched its successful entry into the banking software solutions. DMP has grown and developed into the market leader wholesale lockbox solution provider. DMP pioneered workgroup processing in the early 1990's and was the first to bring imaging to the wholesale payments arena.

Data Support Systems, Inc.

Data Support Systems develops, sells, installs and supports high quality Day Two Processing software. Our image-based workflow packages, which support both paper and paperless item processing, are the best on the market. We provide our customers with highly efficient and effective work environment solutions that can be customized to their special needs. Ongoing enhancements of our products insure we remain ahead of the competition, and our tiered 24-hour support system means our customers are always number one!

Datanet Solutions, Inc.

Since 1996, Datanet Solutions has been one of Southern California's premier providers of Document Imaging and Business Process Management software. Our development team is expert in the most current technologies in the document management field. From coast to coast, Datanet has developed tailored solutions for government, health care, financial, military, nonprofit, Legal and more. Datanet now offers plug-in tools for document image repositories, second generation Remote Deposit Capture suites as well as Image Cash Letter decision engines.

Diversified Check Solutions, LLC.

The Diversified Check Solutions team knows check processing. We know the challenges you face and we’ve made it our mission to create, deliver and support quality financial software solutions that provide our customers with all-encompassing tools for success. ACHeck21 is our masterpiece – a comprehensive and scalable end-to-end software solution that follows an intelligent business workflow.

EDS
Founded in 1962 as Electronic Data Systems, EDS helps clients manage the business and technology complexities of today's digital economy. EDS delivers a portfolio of services that helps clients embrace speed, transform their enterprises, respond quickly to opportunities, protect their physical and digital assets and go to market ahead of their competitors.

Endpoint Exchange

Endpoint Exchange is dedicated to helping all U.S. financial institutions clear their check-based transactions by exchanging images between member banks, S&L's, credit unions, servicers, clearinghouses, and the Federal Reserve.  We're building the first electronic clearing network that capitalizes on existing imaging infrastructure and settlement relationships, with the goal of connecting every endpoint in the nation.

Empire Corporate FCU

EPSON America

When it comes to printing and check imaging solutions, no one can match the quality, reliability and performance of Epson. Our family of printers has everything you need to print receipts, checks, forms, slips and validations and 99.9% MICR accuracy. Our check scanning solutions include both scanners with integrated printers for teller capture and the industry’s most reliable stand-alone scanner for BOC and RDC applications. In short, everything you need to reduce operating costs, speed transactions and increase customer satisfaction.

Fidelity Integrated Financial Solutions

Fidelity Integrated Financial Solutions (IFS) is a leading provider of information technology solutions for community-based financial institutions with capabilities ranging from Core Processing to eBanking to Check Imaging to Business Intelligence. Our unique approach to delivering total financial solutions empowers our commercial bank, credit union and savings institution clients to optimize efficiencies, mitigate risks, maximize revenues and fortify their customer or member relationships.

Financial Services Technology Consortium
A consortium of banks, financial services providers, national laboratories, universities, and government agencies who sponsor and participate in non-competitive collaborative research and development on interbank technical projects.

First National Bankers Bank (Louisiana)

The community bankers that founded FNBB in 1984 envisioned an organization owned and controlled by community banks. They saw a bank dedicated only to correspondent services: helping community bankers compete and thrive by streamlining operations and improving management services.

Fiserv
To compete in the financial world, organizations must leverage technology in order to seize opportunity. Fiserv is the leading provider of technology products and services for the financial world. We provide our clients with the ability to take advantage of new opportunities because of the depth and breadth of our products and services.

Georgia Automated Clearing House Association (GACHA)

Formed in the early 1970s, GACHA was one of the first non-profit ACH organizations in the country. With more than 400 member financial institutions, companies and organizations, GACHA offers a full line of services to its membership, with a limited menu of services also available to non-members.  GACHA representatives annually deliver conference keynote speeches, conduct ACH training sessions, and provide consulting services for industry stakeholders.

Goldleaf Financial Solutions

Goldleaf Financial Solutions provides a full suite of technology-based products and services that help community financial institutions improve operational efficiency and customer service, gain a competitive edge in the marketplace, increase profitability and satisfy regulatory requirements. Our comprehensive suite of outsourced solutions enables your institution to access current, best-of-breed technology, without the substantial capital expense.

Great Lakes Bankers Bank

Great Lakes Bankers Bank is a correspondent bank dedicated to serving, perserving, and promoting independent community banking.  Community banks throughout Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and West Virginia benefit from our full array of correspondent services.

Hancock Bank

One hundred eight years ago, 19 enterprising Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, men and women responded to South Mississippi’s bustling turn-of-the-century economy by establishing the Hancock County Bank on core values of honor & integrity, strength & stability, commitment to service, teamwork, and personal responsibility. From that point, our company assumed a pivotal role in helping the people of our communities achieve their financial goals and dreams and in facilitating commerce and opportunities for people across our greater Gulf Coast. Since first opening our doors on October 9, 1899, with $10,000 in capitalization and $8,277.41 in first-day deposits, Hancock Bank has evolved as a premier regional financial services leader and a catalyst for strategic Gulf South growth.

Image Exchange

Image Exchange LLC presents iXchange, an image-based check clearing solution enabling your institution to exchange forward cash letters, return items, and adjustments electronically.  Image Exchange is designed with flexible settlement designations and is geared toward community and regional institutions, in both stand-alone and clearinghouse environments.

Independent Bankers' Bank (IL)

For 20 years, Independent Bankers’ Bank has offered the highest quality, competitively priced correspondent services to community financial institutions. In recent years, the banking industry has experienced many changes and complexities, from competition to regulation. We serve every community bank regardless of size or location, in a professional manner.

Independent Bankers' Bank of Florida

In 1983, a group of Florida community bankers collaborated to open a correspondent bank, owned by its customer banks, and specifically designed to serve the needs of community financial institutions. In May of that year, Independent Bankers’ Bank (IBB) was chartered and opened for business. Today, IBB has over 90 employees and serves over 80% of the community banks in Florida.

Independent Community Bankers of America
For over 70 years, the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) has been the only national trade association dedicated to community banks -- aggregating their political power, providing industry information and training, and offering top notch products and services.

Inovium Corporation

Inovium has created a comprehensive system that allows businesses to scan incoming checks via a desktop scanner, transmit the resulting images to the bank of their choice, and immediately post to the Inovium management system for automatic reconciliation and posting to the accounting application. Businesses can now make deposits online and save the daily trip to the bank. Inovium's mission is to enable customers to simplify and accelerate the transfer of funds between them and their customers or vendors by applying the latest Electronic Invoice Presentment and Payment (EIPP) technologies using electronic funds transfer.

Integrated Bank Technology, Inc.

IBT has extensive experience in bank automation, in creating transaction processing applications for financial institutions, and in the implementation of these applications. IBT’s programmers are responsible for the development of one of the most widely installed core applications and check imaging applications in the United States.

Integrated Payment Systems

Integrated Payment Systems (IPS) is a leading payment solution provider, processing more than a billion different types of payments a year from official checks and money orders to brokerage checks and corporate disbursements. IPS’ payment solutions can help free valuable resources, diminish operating expenses, and reduce fraud exposure. With a depth and breadth of products and services that are unique to the industry, IPS provides innovative solutions tailored to meet your payment needs.

Interntional Consulting, Inc.

Since 1994, ICI has been a firm focused on Bank and Credit Union Technology Consulting.  This concentration enables us to objectively assess, evaluate, justify, negotiate and implement superior in-house and/or outsourcing solutions for our Clients.

iStream Imaging

iStream Imaging™ is an innovative leader in the electronic check clearing industry. Using process engineering we maximize secure movement of data while minimizing delivery and overhead costs to process check payments. The iStream Imaging vertically integrated infrastructure provides secure connectivity to major check clearing channels. Innovative technology, products and services provide intelligent solutions to financial institutions, business entities and other payment processing parties. The core strategy of iStream Imaging is to minimize the costs of check handling while maximizing productivity for businesses and financial institutions.

i_TECH Corporation

i_Tech Corporation is a financially strong, client oriented company dedicated solely to helping financial institutions manage their information technology efficiently and effectively.   i_TECH is an established ITI Data Center that specializes in providing the well known, fully integrated, ITI Core solution combined with Item Processing and Imaging, e-Commerce, Internet, Electronic, and ATM/EFT services.  i_TECH, in addition to supporting the entire ITI product line, also supports selective third party interfaces that add value to the ITI product suite. This partnership allows for enhanced functionality not currently in the ITI product line.

Key Bank, National Association

Cleveland-based KeyCorp is one of the nation's largest bank-based financial services companies, with assets of approximately $100 billion. Key companies provide investment management, retail and commercial banking, consumer finance, and investment banking products and services to individuals and companies throughout the United States and, for certain businesses, internationally. The company's businesses deliver their products and services through branches and offices; a network of 1,443 ATMs; telephone banking centers 1-800-KEY2YOU® (1-800-539-2968); and a website, Key.com®, that provides account access and financial products 24 hours a day.

LendingTools.com

LendingTools.com, Inc. specializes in the design and delivery of web based applications for the financial services industry. Approximately 2,000 financial institutions utilize one or more LendingTools.com service daily.

Metavante

Metavante delivers virtually all the technology you need to offer financial technology products and services. By providing solutions that drive customer relationship management, electronic banking, electronic funds transfer and card solutions, electronic presentment and payment, financial account processing, investment technology, and retirement plan services, we offer you the ability to manage and deliver the transactions of value necessary to compete, retain, and grow in today's marketplace.

Midwest Independent Bank

MIB was formed to give independent community banks a correspondent banking alternative. MIB never competes against its respondents for market share. MIB’s sole purpose is to make its respondent banks more competitive and profitable in their market areas. MIB is a "bankers’ bank" that provides a wide array of correspondent banking services to approximately 450 financial institutions throughout the Midwest. Based in Jefferson City, MIB’s banking services are provided exclusively to financial institutions.

Minnesota Item Processing Corporation

Minnesota Item Processing Corporation's mission is to serve financial institutions by being the leading provider of check processing services. We will utilize our advanced check processing technology to offer check document imaging for research, retrievals, automated return item processing, stop payment processing, CD image output and image statement printing. We will maintain a dedicated staff ensuring that we provide unsurpassed customer service to the financial institutions we serve.

Mississippi National Bankers Bank

The community bankers that founded FNBB in 1984 envisioned an organization owned and controlled by community banks. They saw a bank dedicated only to correspondent services: helping community bankers compete and thrive by streamlining operations and improving management services.

Mobius
Mobius Management Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of comprehensive software solutions for total content management.

MoneyGram International
At MoneyGram, we are committed to helping people and businesses by providing affordable, reliable and convenient payment services. An international company, MoneyGram has more than 150,000 locations in 180 countries and territories, allowing us to economically and efficiently move money around the world, or close to home.

MPX

Mid-America Payment Exchange (MPX) is a not-for-profit trade association responsible for providing payment systems education, support and industry leadership. MPX is committed to making payment systems understandable and serves more than 2,000 financial institution and corporate members throughout a nine-state territory.

Myriad Systems

MSI has been in business since 1973, providing customized programming and Information Management solutions to companies, from Small Businesses to Multinational Corporations. MSI provides solutions for printing, mailing, internet/intranet development, imaging and data archival. There is not an Information Management solution too large for MSI's experienced staff to handle.

NCR
NCR enables companies the world over to touch millions of customers, millions of times each day. Their powerful data warehousing solutions help use information to better understand and serve each customer as a clearly defined market of one.

Nebraska Bankers' Bank, NA

The correspondent bank created by Nebraska bankers.  Our mission statement is to provide quality correspondent banking products and unparalleled
service to community banks and ensure a profitable return to our
investor institutions

New York Clearing House (NYCH)
The nation's first and largest bank clearing house.  NYCH has played a variety of key roles supporting the development of the banking system in the nation's financial center.

Net Deposit
NetDeposit, Inc. is a leading innovator of products and services for end-to-end electronic check processing and optimized clearing and settlement

O’Connor & Hannan, L.L.P.
ECCHO’s lobbyist for Check 21.

Open Solutions

Open Solutions provides financial institutions with enabling technologies to allow them to strengthen relationships, improve productivity, reduce training and administrative costs, and optimize delivery. Our software and services enable financial institutions to establish new ways to create value and expand their financial services relationships.

Pacific Coast Bankers' Bank

Pacific Coast Bankers’ Bank is one of the nation's largest bankers' banks, and provides quality correspondent banking products and services to more than 250 financial institutions on the West Coast.

Panini North American

Founded in 1945 in Turin, Italy, Panini has a successful history of enabling clients to capitalize on shifts in the payments processing market.  Panini North America, established as a wholly owned subsidiary in 1995, offers check capture solutions that help customers fully realize the advantages and efficiencies available with the digital transformation of the paper check.  Panini North America’s scalable check capture solutions address the complete range of distributed check processing opportunities including teller capture, back-counter, corporate capture, cash vault, microfilm replacement and remittance processing.

Payments Information Circle

The Payments Information Circle offers a unique assortment of services including educational offerings, consulting services and the opportunity for members to network with their peers in the financial industry.  You can get the tools you need to handle practical day-to-day operational issues as well as the expertise to enable strategic decisions for the future.

Payments Resource One
Payments Resource One, is a regional and non-profit payments trade association covering Arizona, Colorado, northern New Mexico and Wyoming. PRO offers ACH processing & settlement services, check exchange & settlement services, and fraud services and regulatory guidance. With a strong emphasis on education, PRO offers numerous certification programs, seminars, remote training options and helpful payments publications.

Premier Check Printing

Your "in-house" check printing system provider.  Improve customer service by offering a higher quality product, far quicker, and at a better price.  Differentiate yourself from the local compettition.  Increase your profits - for the typical 100mm asset-sized institution our system will increase your profits (fee income) by $25,000+ annually.  That's $125,000 in the first 5 years!

ProfitStars, A Jack Henry Company

ProfitStars is a leading provider of best-of-breed products and services that are designed to improve the operating performance of financial institutions of all asset sizes and charters, and diverse corporate entities.

Quad City Bank & Trust

Quad City Bank & Trust is a community bank committed to building relationships through professional, personal service. We give you the powerful tools of a major financial institution, the convenience of a one-stop financial resource, and the responsiveness of a local bank.

RDM Corporation

RDM Corporation is a leading developer of specialized software and hardware products for electronic payment processing. RDM was a pioneer in electronic check conversion systems introducing web-based image and transaction management services for banks, billers, retailers, payment processors and government agencies.

Remote Depsoit Capture, LLC

Remote Deposit Capture is rapidly changing the very way banking is done. RemoteDepositCapture.com is your leading independent resource & platform for information & services covering the Remote Deposit Capture industry. From exclusive editorial articles in the "RDC Insider" and White Paper Central, to Legal Considerations in the RDC Overview, our exclusive RDC Marketplace, and Vendor & Service Provider Listings, we're constantly adding new information & expanding the site.

Rosetta Technologies

For more than 20 years, Rosetta Technologies has delivered innovative electronic document output solutions to our customers' doors. Our expanding line of integrated hardware and software products are tailored to fit the needs of any size business, maximizing the productivity, flexibility and security of business document output.

RP Solutions, Inc.

RP Solutions, Inc., based in Ithaca, NY, is a leading software developer and solutions provider for image based item and payment processing, remote deposit, ATM deposit balancing and archiving. With over 20 years of industry experience, we bring a proven approach to current payment strategies and provide advanced solutions for new and evolving forms of payment.

Schwartz & Ballen
ECCHO's outside legal counsel. This site contains information on recent legal developments relevant to check electronification.

Software Earnings

Since its formation in 1988, Software Earnings has been a leader in providing the financial industry with real-world solutions for check processing and image-based payments processing.  We know the technology... we know the industry.... and we know our customers.  By working with partners such as IBM, NCR and Unisys we are able to offer a variety of options to our clients under one centralized platform.  Solutions range from our Enterprise Image Solutions Suite of products for CPCS and imageCPCS platforms, to our First Touch/Capture Site of solutions for remote deposit and image excchange for institutions of all sizes.

Solutran

For over 20 years, Solutran has provided a full range of treasury management solutions to corporations and financial institutions. Solutran's customized solutions span the payment spectrum, from paper check processing and conversion to fully electronic payment processing. Services offered include depository processing, accounts receivable truncation, controlled disbursement services, and returned check management and conversion services. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Solutran maintains relationships with ten affiliate-processing centers across the United States and Canada.

SortLogic SYSTEMS, a division of Omni-Soft, Inc.

Today, financial services companies have to do more than manage their operations. They must also manage change. SortLogic SYSTEMS helps them capitalize on this change. We are the market leader in Check 21 and electronic banking component technology. The Federal Reserve, EDS, Fiserv, and 55 leading financial institutions in the United States, Puerto Rico, and Spain (including four of the five largest U.S. banks, in terms of assets) use our components every day to process more than 100 million checks - and growing. That represents over 36 billion checks a year! In fact, SortLogic has sold more than 700 licenses for its software products to help financial institutions connect their hardware and software seamlessly and reliably.

Southern Financial Exchange (SFE)
Southern Financial Exchange is a not-for-profit payments association serving financial institutions, corporations and individuals primarily in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee.We provide every member the latest information and highest quality payments-related assistance and training possible to reduce risk, expenses, and increase income.  Through a sponsorship agreement with ECCHO, SFE members can join ECCHO to use its rules for exchanging images.

Southern Financial Federal Credit Union

Southwest Corporate Federal Credit Union is the second largest corporate credit union in the U.S. We serve more than 1,250 credit unions nation wide and have assets of over $10 billion.  As a credit union for credit unions, Southwest Corporate provides credit unions ATM & debit card services, imaged item processing, branch & teller capture, funds management solutions and so much more.

Sterling Savings Bank

Sterling Savings Bank opened for business in April 1983. Sterling is a Washington State-chartered commercial bank. Sterling provides full-service banking, including FDIC-insured deposits and consumer and business banking, commercial real estate and residential construction loans.

SVPCO
SVPCO, the Small Value Payments Company, provides electronic payment and check electronification services to over a thousand financial institutions through Automated Clearing House, Electronic Check Presentment, and Check Verification and Conversion services.

SWACHA

SWACHA is a trade association formed in the early 1970's by leading financial institutions in the states of Texas, New Mexico and Louisiana. Today, the Association has approximately 1,100 members, including financial institutions, businesses, government agencies and professionals. SWACHA operates under the direction of a member-elected board of directors and is assisted by a number of advisory committees populated by senior and executive officers of member organizations.

Symcor
Symcor is a premier outsource provider of efficient and secure business and technology outsourcing services in two key business areas – Item Processing and Customer Communication. We provide individualized product and service solutions to a broad range of customers in many different sectors, including financial services, retail, telecom and utilities.

Systar, Inc.
Founded in 1984 and public on Euronext (Bloomberg: SYSR NM) since 1994, Systar is the world's leading provider of Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) solutions for business and IT managers. In 1998 Systar launched its BAM solutions, BusinessBridge™ and OmniVision™. With the launch of these solutions, the market category they created was referred to as Business Process Performance Management (BPPM) solutions. Today industry experts refer to BusinessBridge specifically as a "pure play BAM solution" - making Systar the only pure-play BAM technology investment available on the public market.

TAWPI Great Lakes Chapter
The TAWPI Great Lakes Chapter covers IL, WI, OH, MI, IN, MN and Ontario with a membership focused on lockbox, payment and check processing issues. The Chapter cooperatively works with regional counterparts for electronic payment transactions, imaging and financial/accounting. The Chapter recognizes and endorses ECCHO's mission. Membership is $25 annually.

The Bankers Bank (GA)

Of the 21 "bankers banks" in the United States chartered specifically to serve the needs of community financial institutions, The Bankers Bank in Atlanta, Georgia, is the largest in terms of capital and asset size. Chartered in 1986, The Bankers Bank offers a full suite of "correspondent" products and services. Our product and service offerings include Clearing/Cash Management, International, Investments and Investment Banking, Bankcard, Lending, Consulting and other specialized services through our strategic alliance with Fidelity Information Services and additional business partnerships.

The Bankers Bank (OK)

The Bankers Bank exists for one reason: to provide the highest quality of correspondent services to community banks. The unique ownership of 70 community banks with no majority shareholders gives us the ability to offer these services at a reasonable cost and oversee the high level of service in each area.  The Bankers Bank was chartered in August 1985 and opened for business on May 28, 1986.

The Bankers' Bank of Kentucky

Chartered in 1988, The Bankers' Bank of Kentucky has enjoyed serving community banks for over 17 years. Operating as a bankers' bank, BBKY is organized to only do business with other banking institutions and is solely owned by the banks it serves.  The Bankers' Bank provides all of the services of a large, regional correspondent bank but, with superior service and more competitive pricing. Therefore, we can focus our efforts on what matters most to our community bank customers: quality correspondent bank services from a provider that will not compete for the bank's customers.

The Check Image Strategies Group

The Check Image Strategies Group, LLC is a leding provider of image related consulting and technology services.  We work with organizations of all sizes and complexities to help them identify and capitalize on the efficiency gains, cost savings opportunities and revenue growth potential that image technology delivers.  Our goal is to help our Clients drive business value.  We achieve this goal by providing innovative thinking, consulting expertise and state-of-the-art technology.

The Mid-Atlantic Payments Association (MACHA)

The Mid-Atlantic Clearing House Association exists for the primary purpose of serving our members needs as they relate to the ACH network and related payment systems. We do this by promoting the development and use of electronic payment methods and technology to improve the payments systems for the benefit of our members and their customers.

The National Clearing House (NCHA)

NCHA is the nation’s largest check clearing organization providing payment system services to financial institutions of all types and sizes.  It operates the nation’s only web-based real-time national settlement system, providing highly secure, reliable, and cost-effective image and check settlement services to the industry.  It is the leading settlement provider for the emerging world of check image exchange.

Thillens
Thillens has been a family owned business meeting the needs of Chicagoland firms. From Armored Car Check Cashing and Courier Deliveries, to their present day ATM and Financial Services.

TIB The Independent Bankersbank
We believe you will find TIB to be the "Trusted Partner" your bank has always needed.  In fact, if you ever think of us as a "vendor", we have not done our job.  We first opened our doors in January of 1982.  Since that time, TIB has grown to become the nation's largest bankers bank, serving over 1,300 banks across 46 states - plus Guam and Bermuda.  We are owned by more than 475 of those same institutions.

Trustmark Bank
Trustmark Bank provides banking, wealth management and risk management solutions. For more than 100 years, Trustmark has offered premier financial services to the markets it serves. With locations in Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas, Trustmark continues to expand its customer relationships and prove that Trustmark is "People you Trust. Advice that Works.".

UMACHA

UMACHA is a key national force. As a member of NACHA, the Electronic Payments Association, we represent our members on standing national committees and in working groups dealing with key ACH issues. UMACHA also has representation on specific products or process-related industry groups through NACHA Councils. We have direct involvement with the Council for Electronic Billing and Payment, Internet Council, Electronic Check Council and the Corporate Payments Council.

UniPro Systems, LTD

UniPro Systems Limited is a service oriented organization with two specialties - Draft Processing and Print and Mail Services.  The Draft Processing Divsion offers a full range of services including MICR and Image capture for truncated and non-truncated accounts, return processing, proof of deposit and item encoding and research and adjustments. The Image capture system is the newest innovation in check processing, capturing and archiving each item processed for future reference or delivery via home banking systems or internet browser access.  The Print Mail Serivces Division provides credit union clients with statement printing for month end and visa cycles. We can customize your stement run to your specific needs while saving you money.

Unisys
Unisys is a worldwide information technology services and solutions company. In more than 100 countries we deliver the precision thinking and relentless execution that drives our clients' business transformation.

United Bankers' Bank

The community bankers that founded United Bankers' Bank in 1975, (the nation's first bankers' bank), envisioned an organization owned and controlled by community banks. They saw a bank dedicated only to correspondent services: helping community bankers buy and sell banks, streamline operations, and improve management services. Our founders also understood that changing market conditions create situations where community bankers need a "trusted advisor" for specialized areas of expertise or broader financial resources.

US Dataworks, Inc.

US Dataworks is a developer of payment processing software, serving several of the top 25 banking institutions, top 10 credit card issuers, major retailers and the United States Government. Clearingworks®, our software, is designed to enable organizations to transition from traditional paper-based payment and billing processes to electronic payment solutions. Our products include check processing, point-of-purchase transactions and turnkey Automated Clearing House, or ACH, payments. Our products are designed to provide organizations with an in-house solution that will complement and enhance such organizations’ existing technologies, systems and operational workflow. Our strategy is to identify, design and develop products that fill specific niches in the payment processing industry.

Viewpointe Archive Services
Provides digital check and document image archiving and retrieval services in the United States. With a combined customer list representing over 40% of the annual U.S. check processing volume, Viewpointe's goal is to provide image exchange, the ultimate benefit of imaging, on a national scale.

Volunteer Corporate Credit Union

Volunteer Corporate Credit Union (VolCorp) is a not-for-profit financial cooperative that serves natural person credit unions nationally. We were organized for the express purpose of providing low-cost financial services and competitive investment and lending rates to our member/owners, and are guided by a volunteer board of directors. VolCorp is totally owned and directed by our member credit unions. Profit is not the driving force; rather VolCorp exists solely for the benefit of our member credit unions, which is a significant difference from other financial institutions.

VSoft Corporation

VSoft is a leading provider of banking and payment solutions to financial institutions of all sizes worldwide.  Founded in 1996 in Atlanta, we serve more than 1700 users on multiple continents, while successfully managing significant growth.  Our keys to success have been our outstanding associates located in the U.S. and in India, who have developed, sold and supported innovative solutions. We are also privileged to have customers ranging from community financial institutions to global 50 banks who have participated in our growth by providing valuable guidance on their needs and strategic direction.

At VSoft we believe that listening carefully to our customers and striving to exceed their expectations are vital to our continued success. 

WACHA

The Premier Payments Resource (formerly known as the Wisconsin Automated Clearing House Association), is a not-for-profit service organization providing educational and informational resources to the nearly 400 financial institutions and other organizations that participate as members in WACHA.

WAUSAU Financial Systems

Wausau Financial Systems (WFS) is the recognized leader in the development and implementation of distributed point-of-presentment processing solutions to the remittance and check processing industries. WFS provides transaction-processing applications for all size companies including Fortune 500 corporations, financial institutions ranging from the Top 100 to independent locations, and commercial businesses worldwide.

Western Payment Alliance/Wespay
Western Payments Alliance ("WesPay") represents 1,000 Regular Members (financial institutions) in California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Southern Washington, Guam, and more than 100 Associate Members (corporations). A regional payments leader, WesPay supports members in understanding application, interpretation and risk issues related to Automated Clearing House (ACH) Operating Rules via direct telephone assistance, educational training programs, on-site consultation, related publications/operational bulletins. Through a sponsorship agreement with ECCHO, WesPay members can join ECCHO to use its rules for exchanging images.

You can contact us by e-mail at info@eccho.org or by calling (214) 273-3200.