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Bank Systems & Technology February 27, 2006 Patrick K. Barron	Pay It Forward The First Vice President & COO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta talks about payments systems and Check 21.
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Bank Systems & Technology September 27, 2004 Peggy Bresnick Kendler	Clearing and Settlement Technology can be a powerful ally for banks looking to streamline their clearing and settlement processes and mitigate settlement risk. But to effectively compete in the global arena, financial institutions will have to adopt standards and work together.
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U.S. Banker October 2006 Lee Conrad	New Industry Index Aims to Quantify The Progress of Corporate Payments Companies still make most of their payments with paper checks, but new VICOR-commissioned research suggests a major change is afoot. Restless bankers are more than ready.
Bank Systems & Technology February 1, 2007 Esther Pigg	Meeting the Corporate Challenge With corporate customers challenging their financial institutions to provide a more-integrated, end-to-end array of payments origination, information management, clearing and dispute resolution solutions, 2007 will be an exciting time in the U.S. payments industry.
Bank Systems & Technology April 8, 2010 Penny Crosman	NACHA Reports 18.76 Billion ACH Payments in 2009 Year-over-year transaction volume is up 2.6 percent, unauthorized debit transactions are down 9%.
Bank Systems & Technology May 6, 2004 Cynthia Ramsaran	2004 Fed Forecast: Enhanced Electronic Payments Claudia S. Swendseid, SVP of the Fed's Financial Services Policy Committee, spoke about the organization's goals for 2004 and what it is currently doing to move the financial services industry gracefully from paper to electronic checks.
FDIC FYI May 25, 2004 Neil Murphy	The Impact on U.S. Banking of Payment System Changes Although the much-heralded check-less society has yet to arrive, major changes are underway in retail non-cash payment systems. Today's issue of FYI surveys the implications of the rising use of electronic payments.
Bank Systems & Technology December 1, 2006 Maria Bruno-Britz	Corporates Want Standardized Remittance Data in Wire Transfers Businesses would be more likely to choose wire transfers for electronic payments if they were provided with more-standardized remittance information with wire payments, according to a joint study by The Clearing House Payments Company and the Federal Reserve Bank.
Bank Systems & Technology February 1, 2007 Nancy Atkinson	Aite Group: Wholesale Payments to Become More Electronified in 2007 In 2007, the B2B or wholesale payments industry will show greater movement toward e-payments this year. Financial institutions and the vendors that support them will concentrate on three key opportunities.
Bank Technology News January 2005 John Adams	Processing: BB&T Cashes In Its CHIPS For a Better Backstop By reducing the costs of entry, banks can hook up with CHIPS and have a viable backup that's less expensive than in the past.
Bank Systems & Technology August 30, 2005 Maria Bruno-Britz	Commercial Payments: From Many, One All the major players - banks, corporations, regulators and vendors - are attempting to standardize and simplify the commercial payments process. But, everyone seems to have a different idea as to the best way to do so.
Bank Systems & Technology March 30, 2007 Maria Bruno-Britz	Aite Urges Consolidation of Wire and ACH Systems A new study says convergence of wire transfer and ACH will lead to efficiency and cost savings for banks and their commercial clients.
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Bank Technology News March 2007 Glen Fest	Image Exchange: Imaging: Are Happy Days Here at Last? Image-cleared checks have exceeded substitute items, and are expected to surpass paper-check volume by the end of the year.
Bank Systems & Technology June 9, 2007 Maria Bruno-Britz	Federal Reserve In Deal with Unisys for Check Image Processing Feds plans to upgrade existing check image processing system will lead to greater efficiencies.
Bank Technology News May 2001 Patricia A. Murphy	Talk of the Show: Image Archive Wide-scale check imaging has seemed an elusive goal, at least for the better part of a decade. Key stumbling blocks have remained, like federal statutes that require long-term storage of commercial documents like checks...
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Bank Systems & Technology February 1, 2007 Nancy Feig	Financial Institutions Must Treat Payments Processing as a Business Line to Gain Competitive Differentiation As competition in the payments space continues to heat up, more and more banks will take an enterprise-wide view of the payments business and corresponding technology.
Bank Technology News June 2007 Glen Fest	ACH Fraud: Clearing House Aims To Clean House Stepping up the pressure on third-party processors to police their ACH users, NACHA member institutions may decide later this summer on new network rules to strengthen fines or even ban originators with excessive unauthorized items.
Bank Systems & Technology December 1, 2006 Maria Bruno-Britz	Deadline for Back-Office Conversion Nears, Banks, Retailers Gear Up In three months, NACHA's long-awaited rules on back-office conversion of checks officially go into effect. Retailers and billers finally will be able to convert eligible checks into Automated Clearing House payments at the point of sale.
U.S. Banker April 2010 Glen Fest	A Real Live Wire Corporate treasurers celebrate enhanced remittance data coming to B2B wires, but worry banks might be slow to change.
Bank Systems & Technology March 27, 2008 Maria Bruno-Britz	International Payments Framework Organization to Standardize Cross-Border Payments The banking industry has experimented with payments standards for years. New initiatives for cross border payments are detailed.
Bank Systems & Technology February 27, 2006 Maria Bruno-Britz	Stepping Closer to SEPA The Single European Payments Area will allow 500 million European Union citizens to purchase goods and services using the same direct debit product in any EU country.
Bank Systems & Technology April 25, 2008 Nancy Feig	Enterprise Payments Architectures Are Gaining Ground at Banks The aim of an enterprise payments architecture is to leverage technologies and services across the payments business and throughout the entire organization.
Bank Technology News February 2001 David Rountree	For Retail Payment On The Net, Only Tradition Is Getting Traction Credit cards rule, to be sure, but bankers understand that the Internet is about choice...
National Real Estate Investor July 1, 2006 David Cardwell	Electronic Payments Accelerate Cash Flow Adept property managers are encouraging the use of electronic payments and customizing options to meet residents' needs. Electronic payments help close new business faster, accelerate the availability of funds, reduce delinquencies, and enhance security.
Bank Systems & Technology September 30, 2006 Maria Bruno-Britz	Speaking the Same Language Banks are faced with a dilemma around the extent to which they should remain in the payments business.
Bank Technology News July 2008 Glen Fest	How Will Payments Ride Rails? When mobile payments become an everyday reality for banks - and few forecast otherwise - experts say there will be crucial business-line decisions on the suitability of ACH, ATM or card association networks for particular payments.
Bank Systems & Technology April 28, 2008 Nancy Feig	Banks Told to Prep for New International ACH Rules The NACHA rule and format for international ACH transactions presents both opportunities and challenges for banks.
Bank Technology News February 2007 Glen Fest	Conversion's the Word In '07 e-Payments Drive For financial institutions electronic remittance, automated exceptions, back office conversion and other breakthroughs appear on the horizon as the next phase for remote capture.
Bank Technology News May 2005 Holly Sraeel	Nonbank Payments: Are Banks Green? Yes And No. If you take cash and payments out of the equation, who needs banks?
Bank Systems & Technology December 1, 2005 Maria Bruno-Britz	Check 21: Evolution, Not Revolution Originally hailed by legislators as ushering in a new era of banking, it seems the reality of Check 21 is a bit less lofty than they anticipated - so far, at least.
Bank Systems & Technology December 1, 2006 Phil Britt	Banks to Allow E-Bill Pay Customers to Pay With Cards The growing popularity of online bill payment services presents a revenue opportunity for banks.
Bank Technology News December 2002	By the Numbers With more nonbanks taking a shot at the payments industry, the benefits of account-to-account (A2A) transfer services far outweigh the risks.
Bank Technology News March 2010 John Adams	Slipping A Card Into The Payments Chain For all the money that bank IT departments are pouring into treasury management innovation, a lack of corporate tech literacy and a strategic disparity between buyers and sellers anchors many corporations to an old school B-to-B paradigm dominated by paper checks.
Bank Systems & Technology March 29, 2006 Ivan Schneider	New Opportunity in Check Conversion The Federal Reserve recently amended the Electronic Fund Transfer Act, paving the way for back office processing by merchants.
Bank Systems & Technology March 10, 2004 Deena M. Amato-McCoy	WesPay/Clearing House Deal Aims For Integrated Payments Structure Processors seek economies of scale as payments landscape undergoes transformation.
Bank Systems & Technology May 8, 2007 Maria Bruno-Britz	Corporate Clients Inceasingly Favor Card Payments, Visa Says Banks have an opportunity to help corporate customers increase efficiencies by implementing more e-payments.
Bank Systems & Technology May 24, 2007 Nancy Feig	Banks Begin Offering Back-Office Conversion Solutions Banks are slowly migrating to new back-office conversion solutions in light of NACHA - The Electronic Payments Association's recent announcement of new rules for electronic check conversion.
Bank Systems & Technology May 4, 2005 Phil Britt	Balancing Act There is a transition away from paper and toward electronic transactions, but banks and their corporate customers want options for making electronic payments.
Bank Technology News October 2010 Daniel Wolfe	Small Business Clamors for P2P Consumers wont be the only ones with access to CashEdge's ACH payment services any longer. Bank of the West will be the first bank to offer its small-business customers an ACH payment service that could make costly wire transfers unnecessary.
Bank Technology News October 2010 John Adams	NACHA's Place in The Community It took several years to get off theground, but NACHA will finally get a report card on the economic expediency and demand for its deposit check truncation pilot.
Bank Systems & Technology April 12, 2010 Penny Crosman	Payments Startup Aptys Supports ACH, Wire, Check Images The new Aptys platform PayHub will give correspondents one platform to offer payments of all types to community bank clients.
Bank Systems & Technology June 20, 2008 Maria Bruno-Britz	NACHA's McEntee to Retire as CEO; U.S. Bank's Estep to Replace Him During his two decades on the job McEntee steered the organization through significant changes to the payments landscape, not the least of which was electronic check conversion.