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The Fundamentals Behind Managed Check Recognition Services

August 27, 2014

There was a great article written on the Institute of Financial Operations site called “5 reasons you should not manage OCR software internally”. The concepts and challenges for end-users to fully manage their recognition environment applies to all industries. We’ve seen how even in check processing, banks are underachieving in their check processing environments by 10%, 20% and even 30%, leaving large chunks of automation “on the table” for their employees to manage. The end result is higher labor costs, additional overhead to run the systems and negative client experience due to additional errors.

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Mobile RDC and Check Fraud: What to Think?

July 23, 2014

We have to remember that Mobile RDC is still a relatively new type of technology. The technology has made waves in supporting financial institution’s customer acquisition strategies. As new services like mobile RDC are implemented, financial institutions run risk models trying to anticipate product profitability, security risk and fraud losses. RemoteDepositeCapture.com recently reported that the vast majority of financial institutions that have adopted mobile RDC technology in the last few years report few, if any, losses from the use of the technology.

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ECCHO Doing “God’s Work” for Check Payments

July 22, 2014

As “the check” gets less and less attention due to the myriad of new payment innovations, rules for check processing continues to improve. Our good friends at ECCHO continue efforts on making the check payment better and better by gathering critical, industry-wide feedback on Reg CC improvements.

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Alternate Branching Strategies to Enhance your Geographic Footprint

July 21, 2014

The summer 2014 newsletter from industry consultant, Trent Fleming, identifies important considerations for community and large banks on how to leverage technology to complement branch “brick and mortar”.

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5 Ways Banks Can Take a Leadership Role & Help Healthcare Providers

June 6, 2014

Banks have a number of ways they can grow by offering new services in the healthcare payments space. This healthcare payments video series features interviews with Mark Brousseau, President of Brousseau & Associates. In these forward thinking interviews, Mr. Brousseau provides insight to the marketplace of healthcare payments by helping to identify the challenges in today’s market, identify a path toward streamlining revenue cycle management and offers a roadmap for banks to better support the needs of healthcare providers.

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IOFM Payments Summit Delivers Futuristic Agenda

June 5, 2014

The IOFM Payments Summit (www.iofm.com) examined the opportunities, challenges and business drivers for emerging payments automation technologies and processes. Billers and banks need strategies for managing multiple payment channels and transitioning remittance and lockbox operations from paper checks to multi-channel electronic payments inputs. The beauty of this show was in its diversity of thought leadership and vision for the future.

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Banning Remotely Created Checks Illustrates Lack of Interest in Fraud Prevention

May 5, 2014

A recent article in American Banker highlights the Federal Trade Commission’s idea of banning remotely created checks (RCC), also referred to as Pre-Authorized Drafts (PAD) by telemarketers. These merchants create RCCs by using bank account and routing numbers, creating a “check image” for payment processing. These are unsigned checks that are governed mostly by state laws without full recourse when unauthorized transactions are made.

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Advice to Banks Seeking to Introduce Medical Banking Services to Healthcare Providers

April 15, 2014

Former Health and Human Services Secretary and Governor of Wisconsin, Tommy Thompson is interviewed by healthcare payments expert, Mark Brousseau, President of Brousseau & Associates in Q&A Session #11. Gov. Thompson believes financial institutions, including all banks, can add value to the revenue cycle process. Banks can be a supportive member of an integrated system for healthcare providers.

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ICD-10 Delay Should Help Financial Institutions Sell Medical Lockbox Services

April 4, 2014

Have you heard the news? Again! ICD-10 is pushed back another year for implementation. Behind the controversy of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was a tsunami brewing within the healthcare industry. Many were concerned about the overhead and conversion costs, so pressure was building as the deadline was lurking in October 2014. It might have been another “Y2K”, in that proper planning and execution would have mitigated the risks and made the transition more like a little storm rather than a tsunami… but we will never know for 2014.

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RemoteDepositCapture.com Initiates Research on Mobile RDC Risk

March 7, 2014

With all of the excitement of Mobile RDC, the industry has yet to experience significant losses… at least those which have leaked to the public. Orbograph commends RemoteDepositCapture.com for initiating a study in this area to help identify and quantify the risk in Mobile RDC; at least anecdotally. Business-focused RDC solutions have been very beneficial for the banking industry. Not only has the value been there for businesses, but the losses have been minor across the industry.

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