Sponsors

ACI Worldwide, Inc. powers electronic payments and banking for more than 5,000 financial institutions, retailers, billers and processors globally. Through its comprehensive suite of software products and hosted services, the company delivers a range of solutions for payments processing, online banking, mobile, branch and voice banking, fraud detection and electronic bill presentment and payment.  For more information, please visit www.aciworldwide.com.

The BancAlliance network is a shared commercial and industrial (C&I) loan platform that identifies, evaluates and refers loan opportunities to its community and regional bank members.  It enables members, the banks that direct the network’s activities, to both acquire high-quality commercial and industrial loans and develop relationships with larger borrowers in their market.  BancAlliance has more than 50 member banks with over $2 billion allocated to the program.  For more information, please visit www.bancalliance.com.

BancVue provides innovative retail products, marketing and consulting to community financial institutions nationwide, propelling them to compete with and beat megabanks.  BancVue’s flagship offering, Kasasa®, is a scale-driven strategy proven to deliver controlled account growth with higher profitability while attracting younger account holders with greater retention and wallet share.  For more information, please visit www.bancvue.com.

BMO Capital Markets and BMO Harris Bank are members of BMO Financial Group (NYSE, TSX: BMO), one of the largest diversified financial services providers in North America with US$535 billion total assets and more than 46,000 employees as of July 31, 2013.  For more information, please visit www.bmocm.com.

CDW supports 99 percent of the top U.S. banks with the industry’s broadest and deepest technology, solutions and services. The CDW Financial Services team helps banks integrate and keep current with technology to better manage risk, meet regulatory compliance requirements and audits, improve customer experiences and achieve growth targets.  For more information, please visit www.cdw.com.

Crowe Horwath LLP is one of the largest public accounting and consulting firms in the U.S., providing audit, tax, advisory, risk and performance services.  Their dedicated team of more than 550 professionals works with financial institutions of all sizes and serves more than 1,100 financial services organizations.  For more information, please visit www.crowehorwath.com/fi.

Deluxe Corporation understands the needs of financial institutions and offers products and services to target new customers, acquire and onboard accountholders, enhance customer experience, increase profitability and measure effectiveness.  In addition, Deluxe has re-energized their check program and through proactive account management, web analytics and a purposeful retail strategy, clients see an average 24-27% annual profit improvement.  For more information, please visit www.deluxe.com.

Fiserv, Inc. is a leading global provider of information management and electronic commerce systems for the financial services industry, providing integrated technology and services that create value and results for their clients. Fiserv drives innovations that transform experiences for more than 16,000 clients worldwide. For more information, please visit www.fiserv.com.

GLC is a marketing agency focused on content, communications and branding strategies that deliver ROI.  Working in digital, print, video and social channels, GLC collaborates with clients to first understand their marketing objectives and then to develop the right audience-specific strategies and solutions.  To learn more and for a free 30-minute branding or communications assessment and for ROI-focused client case studies, please visit their website at www.glcdelivers.com.

Ignite Sales, Inc. changes the way banks sell products, service customers and manage channels to meet the competitive demands for improved sales process. Ignite’s patented services combine a recommendation platform with powerful analytics that matches products to customer eligibility. Comerica, SunTrust and RocklandTrust are a few of the banks utilizing Ignite Sales.  For more information, please visit www.ignitesales.com.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP provides comprehensive assurance, tax and advisory M&A services from pre-deal due diligence to post merger integration effectiveness.  They assist clients with their most challenging and complex issues.  For more information, visit www.pwc.com.

River Branch Capital LLC is an investment bank focused on financial services.  They are dedicated to providing customized solutions to their clients.  Their knowledge and experience, complemented by their national and international dealings and relationships, allow them to uniquely serve the needs of their clients.  They concentrate their efforts on a select group of partnerships and situations where they can add particular value.  For more information, please visit www.rbhllc.com.

StrategyCorps delivers revenue-generating retail checking and mobile financial solutions to banks nationwide.  The solutions are so relevant to customers’ daily lives, they’ll gladly pay a fee to have them.  This means clients will earn about $75 of customer-friendly fee income annually per account from 40% of their retail checking accounts.   For more information, visit www.strategycorps.com.

Established in 1986, Sutherland Global Services is a global provider of business process and technology management services offering an integrated portfolio of analytics-driven back-office and customer facing solutions that support the entire customer lifecycle.  It is one of the largest, independent BPO companies in the world serving global leaders in major industry verticals.  Headquartered in Rochester, NY, Sutherland employs over 30,000 professionals and has 35 operations centers in the United States, Philippines, India, UAE, Egypt, Bulgaria, UK, Canada, Mexico and Colombia.   For more information, visit www.sutherlandglobal.com.