Bank Relationship Management
Managing a company's bank relationships to ensure access to essential cash management services and credit are important and challenging responsibilities for many treasury professionals. The AFP Bank Relationship Management suite couples industry standard tools with independent research to help treasury professionals evaluate, select and manage bank relationships.
2010 Remote Deposit Capture (RDC) Review
With the passage of Check 21, remote deposit capture (RDC) has become a convenient service for business customers and now even consumer clients. Among the top 180 commercial banks based on asset size in 2009, 78% offer RDC. The convenience of depositing checks remotely from a business or now even from home or by using a mobile device will increase the number of users and providers in years to come. RDC is estimated to reach around 7.3 million users by 2014. There are forecasts that with the availability of mobile remote deposit, more than 1.5 billion check deposit transactions will be eliminated from U.S. bank branches by 2014. The added convenience of mobile remote deposit capabilities will also attract small business owners.
Informa Research Services' 2010 Remote Deposit Capture Review delivers the fee and feature information of what the top 100 small business and commercial financial institutions, and the top 20 retail financial institutions are offering in the area of check image capture technology to their business and retail clients.
Impact of Regulation Q & FDIC Changes on Commercial Banking Products Study
Regulation Q has been repealed! How will your company be affected? Informa Research Services has released the Impact of Regulation Q & FDIC Changes on Commercial Banking Products Study.
The repeal of Regulation Q, as part of wider banking reforms, is projected to have a significant impact on the financial services industry as a whole. The two major players that are expected to be impacted are financial institutions and corporate practitioners. For many years, financial institutions have had to devise innovative solutions in order to provide their corporate clients with a variety of cash management services to maintain account balances without being able to pay an actual interest rate. Now, corporations will be able to take advantage of new product offerings.