Endorsed Providers of Virginia Association of Community Banks

VACB Endorsed Providers

Affinion Group, a global leader with over 35 years of experience, enhances the value of its partners' customer relationships by providing comprehensive customer engagement and loyalty solutions that enhance the relationship of millions of customers with more than 4,500 of the most respected financial institutions in the world.
Corporation Service Company (CSC) provides UCC lien searching, filing, and monitoring services that help you uncover more UCC search records and validate corporate debtor names before you file. CSC will import your existing UCC portfolio at no charge into its Web-based application, which requires no account activation charges, no system set-up fees, and no requirements for software downloads or additional computer hardware.
Focuspoint, Inc., America's Premier Message On Hold Company, provides products that have been proven to increase sales, build brand awareness, and retain current customers.
HarlandClarke offers a comprehensive range of payment, marketing and technology solutions to utilize their multiple capabilities to address your bankÕs specific goals, challenges and needs. HarlandClarke delivers value at every level within the bank to significantly and positively impact your performance.
ICBA Bancard/TCM Bank offers a host of payment services for community banks at favorable pricing through arrangements with Certegy Card Services, Inc. and Fiserv EFT.
ICBA Reinsurance, a joint-venture partnership with ICBA and AIG/American General, has been designed to provide increased revenue to ICBA members.
ICBA Securities was founded by the ICBA to provide community bankers with quality bank investment products, services and educational activities at competitive market prices.
PURLs(Personalized URLs) is Source4's innovative online tool to help grow a community banks' market share. The complete marketing campaign incorporates high impact, personalized direct mail and the internet.
IMAGE is Source4's centralized supply chain program that will help you to Reduce Operational Expenses and Improve Profits with Source4's IMAGE Supply Chain Management E-Solution. Learn how Virginia community banks are improving their Efficiency Ratio by using Source4's IMAGE solution to manage operational supplies and marketing collateral.
Re$ubmitIt® is BSG Financial's electronic check recovery solution. This fully-automated program can immediately increase revenue for both the bank and commercial customers that receive bad checks. The program utilizes proven RCKÐor electronic re-presentmentÐtechnology to strategically time additional electronic re-submissions to the check writer's account.
Zurich North America Financial Enterprises, formerly Fidelity and Deposit, has provided innovative risk management solutions for the financial services industry. Zurich offers a full range of products, including fidelity bonds, property and casualty, professional liability, and electronic commerce protection.
Secure Banking Solutions offers the TRAC software program, an innovative and affordable solution to managing the information risk assessment for your bank. TRAC is a web-based automated information security tool which will guide the bank towards sound information security and successful IT exam. VACB member banks receive a 30% discount on pricing.

How to Become an Endorsed Provider :

To become an Endorsed Provider of the VACB, a company must be a VACB Associate Member in good standing. Any Associate Member may request that a company product/service be considered for endorsement, by initiating such a request to the VACB Services Committee.

The Associate Member will then be required to provide detailed information in a number of areas, including (1) financial information, (2) marketing plans, and (3) benefits to the VACB membership and (4) benefits to the association. Additionally, the Associate Member will be asked to list the Virginia banks with which they are currently working.

Once this information has been reviewed, the Associate Member is given the opportunity to make an endorsement presentation to the Services Committee. The Services Committee consists of bankers who provide the broad knowledge and experience needed to evaluate various products and/or services. Committee members may request that VACB staff provide additional information with regard to the experience of a specific vendor working with other state associations.

After completing this due diligence process, the Services Committee then decides whether or not to make a recommendation to the VACB Board of Directors for approval. Contracts with the Endorsed Providers are reviewed annually by the Services Committee and the VACB. The endorsement is subject to withdrawal at any time if problems arise with the company's product or service and the necessary improvement is not forthcoming in a timely fashion. VACB endorsements focus on products and services that will make your community bank more profitable, more competitive and/or easier to manage. When considering products and services for your bank, be sure to think of VACB's Endorsed Products/Services first!