The SCBA studies products and services for endorsement and is pleased to offer our membership a wide range of top quality offerings. Please note the following products and services endorsed by the SCBA:
 ADP Automatic Data Processing provides payroll services including, direct deposit, tax filing and benefits administration. Contact: Chris Smith, 803/781-9792.
 Sheshunoff Management Services, For over 30 years, the experienced consultants at Sheshunoff Management have been helping financial institutions gain competitive advantages and improve their bottom-line. Our proven solutions can help your institution enhance revenue, optimize business processes, manage risk, meet regulatory requirements, and find your best opportunities for growth. For more information, please visit www.smslp.com or Contact: Kristen Morgan (800) 477-1772.
 BISYS -- The BISYS Group, Inc. through its Investment, Insurance and Information Services Groups provides technology-based solutions to approximately 20,000 financial institutions in the financial services industry. Within the Information Services Group, BISYS Banking Solutions offers complete data processing outsourcing, including Core Information Processing, Electronic and Internet Banking, Customer Relationship Management, Integrated Marketing and Sales, Profitability Analysis and Reporting, Data Warehouse, Branch Automation, Integrated Document Management, and Bank Operations. BISYS is also the exclusively endorsed vendor for core processing of the South Carolina Bankers Association and the American Bankers Association through its subsidiary, the Corporation for American Banking. Contact: Gina Miller, 713/965-1451.
 BISYS Retirement provides retirement plan products, services and expertise by supporting you with everything you need to succeed in the retirement plans market - from prototype plans to forms, from compliance testing to recordkeeping, and from consulting to technical training. Contact: Jane Weizenegger, 800/346-3860.
Cancer Insurance - supplemental cancer insurance.
Cash Sweep Program -- SEI Investments offers a turnkey, automated system that sweeps excess commercial DDA balances into selected money market mutual funds. The program offers an integrated approach to building cash sweep services and oversees all aspects of the implementation process. Components include software implementation, technical training, extensive marketing support, and ongoing consulting services. Contact: Mitzi Ziolkowski, 800/610-1114, ext. 2373.
 Clark Consulting leads the industry in providing tailored executive benefit programs and strategic financing and investment solutions that help banks manage risk, optimize earnings, improve shareholder value, and realize key financial goals. Customized products and services and multiple client solutions include placement of General Account, Separate Account and Hybrid Separate Account Bank-Owned Life Insurance (BOLI), nonqualified deferred compensation plans, and asset administrative solutions. Endorsed by numerous bank trade organizations including the American Bankers Association's Corporation for American Banking, our consultative approach has benefited nearly 2,000 financial institutions and their shareholders nationwide for over 25 years. Contact: Glenn Blackwood at 561/798-5620.
 Digital Insight is a comprehensive Internet Banking solution for small-to-mid size financial institutions. They offer fully transactional Internet banking; development and implementation; web design, maintenance and hosting; customer service training and support; as well as marketing consulting services. Contact: Stephen Crane, 770/329-8035.
 The SC Bankers Employee Benefit Trust offers a group insurance plan that can include health, dental, life, LTD and voluntary life. The group health plan is self-funded and has a choice of a PPO and/or an HMO that is currently administered by Blue Cross/Blue Shield of SC. At present there are 61 banks participating. The plan provides excellent coverage at a reasonable premium and is available to all banks that are SCBA members. Contact: Teresa Taylor, 803/779-0850.
 Federal Flood Certification Corporation offers a complete flood zone determination solution by offering fully transferable, life-of-loan flood determinations at competitive prices. Federal Flood’s service includes HMDA & CRA reporting data, complete NFIP flood insurance services through Union Flood Insurance Agency including monitoring and borrower notices, rush service when needed, excellent customer service, toll-free fax ordering, or internet service. Contact Ed McLin, 800/449-3322 or Elisa Edwards at SCBA, 803/779-0850.
 Fifth Third Bank - debit card processors. Contact Chris Savarese 513-534-0426.
First Data Corporation allows small and mid-size community banks to offer credit and debit processing from a single-source provider with pricing and assumption of charge-back liability that allows the local bank to compete with larger regional banks. Contact: Harold Coggins 803/796-2410.
Affinion Group is a customer retention program offering banks non-interest income opportunity through accidental death insurance for checking account customers. Through strategic consumer marketing, added value checking packages help member institutions attract new customers, increase fee income, strengthen customer relationships, and gather low-cost deposits. Programs target Generation X, Baby Boomers and the Mature Market. Contact: Dale Loftis, 800/251-2148, ext. 561 or Kim Gibson, 800/251-2148, ext. 3456.
 Harte Hanks Data Technologies specializes in providing Marketing Customer Information File (MCIF) software to the financial services, insurance, and retail industries. MCIF systems enable users to track promotions, segment customers for concentrated selling efforts, and manage and retain customer account relationships as well as new account acquisition efforts. Specifically the system features expert profitability analysis at the household, individual, account and product levels. Contact: Jason Lowe, 407/531-1133, ext. 1327.
 Impact Financial Services is a small, but highly focused, bank profitability consulting company. They offer to their clients a totally turn-key installation and implementation of a dynamic process that is designed to (a) increase profits by increasing NSF income, and (b) make consumer checking account customers very, very happy. Contact John Godbold, 704/482-2922.
 Intercept Switch is the surcharge free ATM network used by community bankers in over 14 states. By being a member of the network, banks' customers have a selection of ATMs to u/se without a service charge. Contact: Carla Tolbert Cherny, 336/286-5534.
 John H. Harland Company is the SCBA-preferred vendor for check printing. Harland consists of four business unities: Financial Services Group, which provides checks, forms and specialty products to financial institutions and pertinent non-financial markets; Information Service Group, which provides platform automation, compliance solutions and targeted marketing to increase financial institution efficiency and profitability; Data Service Group, which provides data management solutions for educational, commercial and governmental markets; and Direct Marketing Group, which offers checks and related products directly to consumers. Contact: Chris Brumfield, 800/723-1470, ext. 8039 or Lauren Skelton.
 LTC Benefits, Inc. is a provider of long-term care insurance plans. LTC Benefits, Inc. offers a variety of plans that are available to SCBA members, employees, family members and bank customers at substantial discounts. Employees will be more protected and further productive due to the benefits being provided for their care or family members care. Bank customers will be financially secure from long-term care expenses and so will deposits. Contact: David Scott, 803/798-7311; Columbia, 800/922-8177 or Elisa Edwards at SCBA, 803/779-0850.
 Pentegra Group – For over 58 years, the Pentegra Group has provided retirement plan services to community banks nationwide. Pentegra offers a wide array of programs, including 401(k), ESOP, profit sharing, money purchase, defined benefit pension, cash balance, executive benefit, and Director plans. With nearly $3 billion in assets under management, Pentegra serves over 400 clients nationwide. For more information contact Sales & Marketing at 1-800-872-3473, Ext. 531.
Profit Protection, Inc. has long been considered the premier source for information and education concerning security, fraud prevention, and Bank Secrecy Act matters. They are a publisher of security and Bank Secrecy Act educational materials, videotapes, and pamphlets. Please contact Ann Ortoleva at 800/390-6227 for more information.
 ProfitCents is a web-based software program that enables CPA's, bankers, and other financial professionals to provide a written explanation of financial statements to their business clients. The reports use ratio analysis, industry comparisons, and trend analysis to depict the financial health of the client's business in plain language.
 Progressive - The ABA-sponsored insurance program, underwritten by Progressive, is a unique partnership of over 1,700 community banks, the ABA, 25 other statebankers associations and Progressive Insurance. The program providesinnovative coverages expanding upon the traditional Financial InstitutionBond, Directors & Officers Liability and Employment Practices Liabilitypolicies. Furthermore, when you join the program you become a mutual ownerand benefit from its success. Since 1991, members have shared in profitdistribution of over $46,000,000. To find out how you can take part in
this unique program, please call Michael Kohl at 800/274-5222.
BSG Financial’s Re$ubmitIt® program, is an electronic recovery solution for returned deposit items that helps your commercial accountholders significantly increase collections of NSF items. This fully-automated service is FREE to the business, while providing a new income stream for your bank. SCBA recognizes Re$ubmitIt for its value-add service that helps business accountholders double their collection rate on NSF checks, without adding more work. The program also successfully generates an immediate ROI for member banks in terms of increased revenue, strengthened partnership with commercial accountholders and leadership within the business community. For more information about BSG Financial’s Re$ubmitIt program, contact Jeff Harper at (502) 432-4272 or jharper@BSGfinancial.com, or visit www.BSGfinancial.com/resubmitit.asp.
SecureWorks is the only service provider that prevents network intrusions at the perimeter, firewall and host levels; monitors client networks 24x7x365; provides ongoing vulnerability assessments; and protects email from spam and viruses while automatically encrypting email to protect confidential information. SecureWorks is a member of the elite FIRST (Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams) and has been listed on CIO magazine’s “CIO 100 List” for two consecutive years. SecureWorks, named by the Yankee Group as a leading MSSP, ranked 163rd for 2006 and 79th for 2005 on the Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies List. SecureWorks also ranked 39th on the 2005 Deloitte Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in North America. www.secureworks.com. Contact Tom Stone, account executive, at 877.905.6661.
SWBC (First Guaranty Companies) provides mortgage hazard insurance, offers Real Estate Tax Service that tracks tax payments on mortgage loans as well as Lender Single Interest Program that provides coverage when properties become uninsured. Contact: Angela Freeman, 800/499-7903.
 Thumbprint Signature seeks to halt the mounting problem of check fraud being perpetrated against South Carolina banks and their customers. The goal of the program is to create a line of defense against those contemplating check fraud. For those not deterred, law enforcement agencies will have a fingerprint to pursue persons responsible for the fraudulent activity. The procedure is simple and not burdensome. Non-account holders will be requested to apply their right thumb to an inkless fingerprinting device that leaves no ink stains or residue. The Thumbprint Signature will be placed on the face of the check between the memo line and signature line. The SCBA is one of over 20 state associations assisting their member banks to fight fraud by participating in this program. Contact: Elisa Edwards at SCBA, 803/779-0850.
 TCP Leasing TCP was founded in 1996. Originally conceived as a technology leasing company, TCP has expanded its product line to include almost all types of equipment and now leases equipment throughout the United States. Contact: Terry Hutchins at 919-810-7422 or Lucien Hutcherson in Columbia at 803-782-0121.
For more information about any of the SCBA endorsed products, please call Elisa Edwards at 803/779-0850. |
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