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- Mobile remote capture represents the latest in a series of remote deposit capture progressions. The technology first emerged as a way for large corporate customers to send in check deposits electronically. Delivering remote capture services through camera-equipped mobile phones expands the possible market for electronic check deposits even further. (American Banker, 01/26/2010)
- As RDC increasingly becomes a payments platform or “Payments Hub”, system reliability becomes a clear differentiating factor, and in some cases a critical requirement. Remote Scanner Management should be a part of any good RDC Solution employed by financial institutions, corporations and businesses in a distributed environment. (RemoteDepositCapture.com, 01/20/2010)
- A new payment type, Electronic Payment Orders, might become the "check" of the digital age. (DigitalTransactions.net, 01/07/2010)
- First National Bank of Omaha combines Wausau's Remote Capture platform with Epson's CaptureOne check scanner to create a second generation, Web-enabled RDC solution. (www.BankTech.com, 12/04/2009)
- In a highly competitive environment, insurance carriers of all stripes are looking for a point of differentiation that can help them meet rising agent and customer expectations. Improving payments and receivables processing is one area where insurers can enjoy an immediate impact from changes. (WAUSAU Financial Systems, 12/03/2009)
- The introduction of consumer and mobile solutions will mean the extension of RDC services to a wider range of customers and will enable innovative financial institutions to provide a cost-effective multiple channel service that fits in with changing consumer demands. (NCR Corporation, 12/02/2009)
- At BAI Retail Delivery this year, the debate between whether to capture branch check deposits at the teller versus at the back counter was a primary focus – especially with the growing popularity of “green banking”, the search for the “green branch” and the holy grail goal of going totally paperless. (RemoteDepositCapture.com, 12/02/2009)
- This will be a first in a series of articles on Payments and Payment Hubs. This topic has been generating quite a bit of interest and whenever a topic generates quite a bit of interest it seems too inevitably lead to quite a bit of confusion and misunderstanding. (RemoteDepositCapture.com, 11/05/2009)
- Criminal opened up several accounts with banks which offered immediate or next-day availability on deposits. Effective use of RDC and compliance with FFIEC Risk Management Guidelines could likely have prevented losses of over $3 Million. (www.AmericanChronicle.com, 10/03/2009)
- As RDC has grown in popularity and has been pushed to end-users of all types, and as recognition technologies have continued to improve, the following question is being asked more and more frequently: Do we really need to read the MICR line of a check magnetically?? (RemoteDepositCapture.com, 10/01/2009)
- The number of community banks that offer merchant remote deposit capture is expected to increase to 78 percent by 2011. RDC adoption rates are strongest among the largest community banks, with 97 percent of those with more than $500 million in assets offering merchant RDC versus 32 percent of community banks with assets less than $100 million. (The ICBA, 09/17/2009)
- The FFIEC guidance has precipitated significant effort among thousands of banks to document and formalize what many banks were already doing. Tangible new efforts that would arguably identify and mitigate risk (deposit limits, improved reporting, intra-day deposit review, etc.) were relatively infrequent responses to the guidance. (Celent, 09/16/2009)
- The transition from paper to imaged checks exposes bank vulnerabilities to fraud, but also facilitates detection methods that may turn the tide. (BAI Banking Strategies, 09/11/2009)
- Content is king on the Web. Providing keyword-optimized content will lead more people right to your Web site or other sites that your PR campaign will reach. Making your public relations campaign the driver of this content will also ensure that what your audience is finding on the Web will be information that is of value to them. (William Mills Agency, 09/11/2009)
- The inherent risks of remote capture haven't snuck up on bankers, but its application to the wider cross-section of compliance regulations has begun to dawn on institutions and vendors - and is going to require more persistent monitoring and managing. (US Banker, 08/28/2009)
- While there is no substitute for customer due diligence and regular KYC (Know Your Customer) policies and procedures, FIs should compliment this process by tying their KYC information to the technical tools at their disposal to effectively mitigate RDC Risk. (RemoteDepositCapture.com, 08/19/2009)
- RDC is letting community banks extend their geographic reach, improve customer convenience and service, reduce expenses, and gives them a better chance of bringing on new customers. (Long Island Business News, 08/18/2009)
- Risk concerns have contributed to many financial institutions taking a conservative approach to RDC. This is bound to change as the increased focus on core deposit growth, ongoing technology advancement and the regulatory environment will all contribute to inspiring them to tackle more pervasive remote deposit strategies in the near future. (Goldleaf Financial Solutions Inc. , 08/13/2009)
- Developed in-house, the free iPhone app with its new remote capture feature requires the user to first register with USAA before being approved to send checks. (DigitalTransactions.net, 08/11/2009)
- Mitek Systems, whose software allows users to create check images with their camera phones and then send the images to banks for deposit, signed its biggest processor to date this week. Fiserv agreed to adopt Mitek’s Mobile Deposit product and offer it to the more than 1,100 financial-institutions that use the company for remote deposit capture. (Digital Transactions, 07/29/2009)
- Banks that have not yet awakened from their slumber need to realize that the market is not standing still. Despite the troubling economy, a number of new, bank-neutral solutions are close aboard. (Celent, 07/24/2009)
- Merchants that are good prospects for accepting remote deposit capture services have different needs from many credit and debit card-accepting merchants, but independent sales organizations that do their remote capture homework will be rewarded. (DigitalTransactions.net, 07/23/2009)
- The cost runs $39.95 to $149.95 per month, depending on volume. You get up to 150 monthly scans at the lower level and 1,000 at the high end. (NetBanker.com, 07/22/2009)
- The payments industry has seen the repetition of a pattern. It starts with innovation driven by software companies, followed by ambitious "hockey stick" adoption predictions, fits and starts a la Geoffrey Moore's "chasm" model, an initial trickle followed by a torrent towards outsourced processing and a brutal race to scale and commoditization. (StratEx Insights, 07/04/2009)
- Payments “electronification” is a sure-fire way to trim expenses and improve service. Clearly, there’s a huge opportunity to electronify payment acceptance at medical offices. Because most of these offices already accept checks, but not necessarily credit and debit cards, RDC is a great first step. (RemoteDepositCapture.com, 04/24/2009)
- On April 24th, the USA Today included a supplement on “Smart Banking” to over 2 million readers, primarily in the southeast in print, and online nationwide. The report covers many topics including online security, savings strategies, cool new online financial tools, and of course – Remote Deposit Capture. (RemoteDepositCapture.com, 04/24/2009)
- Remote deposit capture has taken financial institutions by storm. In just over three years since its debut, well over half of all US banks have adopted solutions. This extraordinary adoption earns RDC the distinction of being the most rapidly adopted technology in the history of the US financial services industry. (Celent, 04/20/2009)
- NACHA Payments 2009 closed at NOON upon completion of today’s 31 sessions. The conference provided the attendees with a choice of 155 classroom experiences to increase their knowledge of Electronic Payments, Rules, Solutions and Case Studies. By all accounts, Payments 2009 was a very successful conference. (RemoteDepositCapture.com, 04/08/2009)
- Following the Monday evening offsite festivities hosted by Fiserv, the participation in the exhibit hall and in the sessions was good. Today, conference attendees had a choice of 60 sessions across 7 tracks along with extended time to visit with over 80 vendors in the exhibit hall, including the closing reception time.
(RemoteDepositCapture.com, 04/07/2009)
- On Monday, conference attendees had a choice of 48 sessions across 7 tracks. In addition, they had the opportunity to meet with over 80 vendors in the exhibit hall. This report will provide some of the conference highlights. (RemoteDepositCapture.com, 04/06/2009)
- This paradox results in a conflict between the imperatives of customer intimacy, value optimization, and process efficiency and profitability. But is this really a paradox, or a strategy for bankers to stay ahead of the curve in an evolving landscape? (Bank Systems & Technology, 04/03/2009)
- RDC provides the way to gather deposits but also represents new payment risks The industry requires innovative and automated methods of analyzing the deposits to enforce the new guidelines and provide strict control of depository and merchant agreements made between the financial institutions, aggregators and business owners of all sizes. (AQ2 Technologies, 03/02/2009)
- The FFIEC has released its long-awaited guidance on Remote Deposit Capture. And while most experts agree their initial reads found no real surprises in the guidance, there is also broad agreement that federal regulators will be looking closely at RDC programs, and for compliance with the guidelines, during upcoming examinations. (RemoteDepositCapture.com, 02/27/2009)
- The Federal Reserve Board has approved amendments to Appendix A of Regulation CC that reflect the restructuring of the Federal Reserve's check processing operations in the Fifth and Sixth Districts. (Federal Reserve, RemoteDepositCapture.com, 01/22/2009)
- The new remote capture technologies may overcome early reservations about image quality and risk. While remote deposit capture is now wildly popular and rapidly becoming a standard offering at many banks, when it first came out there were a whole host of skeptics. (DigitalTransactions.net, 01/21/2009)
- A financial institution offering RDC should have sound risk management and mitigation systems in place and should require adequate risk management at customer locations. Prior to implementing RDC, and periodically thereafter, management should conduct a risk assessment to identify the related types and levels of risk exposure. (FFIEC, 01/14/2009)
- Mid-December Release date expected. As soon as the guidance is issued, RemoteDepositCapture.com will post full details on our homepage. Site visitors are encouraged to view the free webinar on RDC Risk Manageent Best Practices, join the discssion and add your comments. (RemoteDepositCapture.com, 12/03/2008)
- While the current Financial Crisis is having a severe impact upon the economy and banks’ investments in new projects and technologies, a growing number of financial institutions have identified RDC as a must-have to survive and thrive. (RemoteDepositCapture.com, 11/14/2008)
- Critical steps toward ensuring an appropriate risk / reward outcome are understanding the new Remote Deposit Capture risk environment, being aware of the technologies, processes, and legal / regulatory capabilities, learning of actual events and experiences from througout the industry and implementing best practices. (RemoteDepositCapture.com, 09/29/2008)
- Remote deposit capture (RDC) has the potential to radically alter the competitive lay of the payments landscape. No big surprise there. What may surprise some folks, however, is the scope and breadth of new business opportunities created by RDC.
(RemoteDepositCapture.com, 08/26/2008)
- It is easy to see why small businesses would want to harness the benefits of electronic payments. With the economic landscape becoming increasingly challenging, companies are feeling the squeeze and must find ways to improve productivity and cut costs. (ProfitStars, 06/26/2008)
- On May 15, 2008, Bank of America and Wells Fargo announced their joint partnership in the processing of ACH transactions, PARITER SOLUTIONS. This announcement was a surprise in some ways, but in others it was not. According to NACHA, Bank of America and Wells Fargo are 2 of the top 3 banks for both originations and receives of ACH transactions. (RemoteDepositCapture.com, 06/25/2008)
- Well, it’s 2008, a full three years after the passage of the legislation “Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act” (Check 21), so let’s take stock of what financial institutions have done with this incredible gift. (Goldleaf Technologies, Inc., 06/19/2008)
- We've discussed the risks involved in remote deposit capture and that financial institution regulators expect banks that offer RDC to customers to examine, underwrite, and educate customers who use RDC, in order to minimize those risks. According a recent article in The American Banker, "community banks play it safe. Some say too safe." (Bank Lawyer's Blog, 06/10/2008)
- Checks continue to be a mainstay for businesses in the US. Remote Deposit Cature presents unprecedented opportunities for these businesses and their banks, and a ever-more attractive opportunity for ISOs and merchant-level salespeople. (The Green Sheet, 06/09/2008)
- We recently attended two conferences, the ICBA (Independent Community Bankers Association) Conference in Orlando, Florida and the AIIM Conference (The ECM –Electronic Content Management – Association) in Boston, Ma. These two very different conferences included discussions regarding many aspects of Remote Deposit Capture (RDC). (RemoteDepositCapture.com, 04/25/2008)
- It was bound to happen, vendors offering solutions that extend the banking enterprise right into the home. Is this a new concept? The answer is a simple one… no, but the implications are! (The Copper River Group, 04/25/2008)
- The goal of the RemoteDepositCapture.com 2007 Industry Research Report is to identify and report on key metrics, trends and issues impacting the Remote Deposit Capture (RDC) Industry. (RemoteDepositCapture.com, 12/03/2007)
- Remote Deposit Capture is dramatically changing the payments landscape. Affordable and competent technologies combined with new regulations and legislation have given rise to unprecedented opportunities, risks, capabilities and competition. (RemoteDepositCapture.com, 08/23/2007)
- In 2005, Southern Commercial Bank in St. Louis was looking into the future. They are an aggressive ten location community bank in the St. Louis and adjoining Jefferson County areas, with a major business lending portfolio and a strong retail presence. They planned to actively promote remote deposit capture. (BLM Technologies, 06/11/2007)
- Though many consumers have adopted online bill payment and have sharply reduced the amount of checks they write, businesses are still writing checks for most of their purchases. (RemitPro, Inc., 05/15/2007)
- With the increase of checks being truncated or converted to electronic transactions, financial institutions are faced with increased demand from their corporate customers on information on risk, costs, and processing efficiencies for all payment methods, particularly checks and ACH. (Alogent Corporation, 08/31/2006)
- In this brave new world of Remote Deposit Capture, the entire process and results depends upon what happens at the point of capture, and Image is everything. (RemoteDepositCapture.com, 06/26/2006)
- Despite the popularity of Remote Deposit Capture, the race to bring new and existing customers on-line has seen challenges for deployment, fulfillment, service and support. (RemoteDepositCapture.com, 06/20/2006)
- As the Remote Deposit Capture industry grows and matures, as with almost any industry, there will be companies who can provide substantial additional value to the core industry. (RemoteDepositCapture.com, 02/21/2006)
- Not long after President George W. Bush signed the Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act – commonly called Check 21 – many voices around the banking industry raised a familiar and loud refrain: Beware of thieves who seek to exploit weaknesses of Check 21 and perpetrate fraud on the banking industry. (GTNews, 11/08/2005)
- If you haven’t heard of it yet, you will soon. Remote Deposit Capture has been called “The most important development the (U.S.) banking industry has seen in years” by the Federal Reserve and others (GT News, 10/19/2005)
- Treasury & Risk Magazine, in association with Wells Fargo, recently published the results of their Check 21 survey of over 300 Corporate Financial Executives. One thing is clear: we've only just begun to see the tip of the iceberg in terms of Remote Deposit Capture (RDC) deployments. (RemoteDepositCapture.com, 09/20/2005)
- In what may have been the first battle between the realities of the check clearing process in the USA and the hype often found in the press about Check 21, reality won. (RemoteDepositCapture.com, 08/22/2005)
- Regardless of new legislation, technology or workflows, the entire check payments process begins with a piece of paper (the check) and (ideally) a control document. (RemoteDepositCapture.com, 07/29/2005)
- The proliferation of business method patents since the State Street Bank vs. Signature Financial Group ruling in 1998 threatens to stifle innovation and competition in the financial services industry. (RemoteDepositCapture.com, 07/28/2005)
- John Leekley, Partner, RemoteDepositCapture.com recently sat with Mike Fenton VP of Parascript’s Total Recognition Solutions to discuss Parascript’s role in the emerging industry of Remote Deposit Capture. (RemoteDepositCapture.com, 06/10/2005)
- John Leekley, Partner, RemoteDepositCapture.com sat with Ed Herman & Vinnie Calo of EDS, and Joe Lamar, Check Products Product Manager at Bank of America at the recent BAI Transpay Conference to discuss Remote Deposit Capture and their success and experiences in deploying this new service. (RemoteDepositCapture.com, 05/24/2005)
- At the BAI Transpay conference in 2004, most of the conference focused on the recent passage of the Check 21 legislation and how banks were preparing to comply with the legislation, clear checks as images and possibly develop new products and services enabled by Check 21. (RemoteDepositCapture.com, 05/16/2005)
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