The Illinois Bankers Association and its subsidiary, the Illinois BancService
Corporation (IBC), maximize the buying power of Illinois banks to provide
the highest quality products and services at the most competitive prices.
Each IBC vendor is carefully researched and approved by the IBC Board of
Directors - selected by bankers for bankers - to ensure quality, consistent
product and service delivery. IBC offers a full line of products and services
to meet your bank's needs. For more information, contact the IBC at 800-783-2265.
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 Broker / Dealer Services
- Infinex Financial Group
Pat Connelly, Vice President, Regional Director
7321 Paradise Lane, Orland Park, IL 60462
Phone: 708-429-5692
Fax: 708-429-6021
» Infinex is a third party marketing firm created and owned by
community banks that focuses exclusively on meeting the needs of
the bank and its customers. Whether your bank is setting up a new
investment program or has an existing program in place, Infinex has
a solution for you. Providing top level support, including employee
training programs and a wide array of investment products and services,
insurance programs and online financial tools, Infinex can offer your
bank more.
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Check Printing and Identity Theft Protection
- Deluxe
Financial Services
Tom Reynolds, Account
Manager
#2 Stahl Place,
Bartonville, IL 61607
Phone: 800-933-2211 ext.
159309
» Deluxe Financial Services, the nation’s leading check supplier, offers its knowledge and comprehensive understanding of consumer preferences to create outstanding customer experiences for financial institutions. Deluxe offers premium checks and related products, and services to enhance customer loyalty, strengthen check program security, increase revenue and improve efficiency.
New solutions include Deluxe ID TheftBlock® and DeluxeDetect®.
Disaster Recovery
- Agility Recovery Solutions
Paul Mitchell, Vice President of Sales
2101 Rexford Rd., Suite 350E
Charlotte, NC 28211
Phone: 310-946-9287
» Agility Recovery Solutions provides disaster recovery and business continuity solutions. The company’s turn-key, packaged recovery solutions are in place across North America. In the event of an interruption, Agility’s ReadySuite Financial solution provides financial institutions with a modular workspace fully equipped with power, satellite communications, Internet access and computer equipment. Other amenities include teller counters, break room areas, check counter, management office and more.
Insurance
- ABA Insurance Services, Inc.
Richard Flenner
5910 Landerbrook Drive, Ste. 100
Mayfield Heights, Ohio 44124
Phone: 800-274-5222
Fax: 800-456-6590
» Recognized as a secure and stable source of insurance since its inception in 1987, this banker-directed program provides professional liability and bond coverage for community banks nationwide. Coverages from A+ rated insurance carriers (A.M. Best) include Directors & Officers Liability, Financial Institution Bond, Employment Practices Liability, Internet Banking Liability, Privacy Protection and STAMP Surety Bond. Banks have the opportunity to participate in unique multi-million dollar profit-sharing program.
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Clark Consulting
Rich Melnick
666 Dundee Road, Suite 808
Northbrook, IL 60062
Phone: 847-513-6136
Fax:
847-513-6139
Roy Pinnell
3935 Kennedy Road, Taylorville, IL 62568
Phone: 217-824-7894
» Clark Consulting leads the industry in providing tailored executive benefit programs and strategic financing and investment solutions that help banks manage risk, optimize earnings, improve shareholder value, and realize key financial goals. Our consultative approach has benefited over 2,400 financial institutions and their shareholders nationwide for over 25 years. Clark Consulting’s customized products and services and multiple client solutions include placement of General Account, Separate Account and Hybrid Separate Account Bank-Owned Life Insurance (BOLI), nonqualified executive & director benefit plans, and asset administrative solutions.
- Investors Title Insurance Company
George Snead, Phone: 800-326-4842
121 N Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC
27514
» Over the last 35 years Investors Title has put more than 500 financial institutions in the business of selling title insurance through lender-owned agencies, providing a profitable fee income opportunity for lenders. Investors Title is the only major title insurance underwriter that has openly promoted the lender-owned agency concept. Our track record, financial strength, and innovation have resulted in over $190 million in commissions to affiliated agencies, and we continue to assist Illinois banks of all sizes in becoming successfully engaged in the sale of title insurance.
Investment Portfolio Management Services
- Hancock Institutional Advisors
383 Marshall Road,
St. Louis, MO 63119
Steve Rull
Phone: 314-997-3191
Fax: 314-997-3358
» Hancock Investment Advisors provides unique buy-side investment advisory services for community banks, thrifts, and insurance companies with a focus on improved investment portfolio performance. Supported by strong banking backgrounds and interest rate risk management experience, the Hancock Investment Advisors team is dedicated to enhancing shareholder value through the investment portfolio.
Marketing and Sales
- Affinion Group
Julie Taylor Phone: 800-251-0006, ext. 2645
Fax: 615-764-5645
» Relationship Banking StrategiesGroup
Affinion Group is a leading provider of retail strategies and value-added checking packages, offering banks opportunities to strengthen and build profitable customer relationships. Through Affinion's programs, banks can customize value-added retail packages designed around specific marketing goals – account retention or acquisition.
» Customer Appreciation Program - AD&D
By enrolling in this popular program, your bank can offer $1,000 of complimentary accidental death and dismemberment insurance at no cost to the DDA and credit card and mortgage customers. Additionally, at the time of the offering, the customer has the option to purchase additional amounts of insurance at a low monthly charge. Currently over 4600 financial institutions have decided to implement the Customer Appreciation Program. They range in size from small rural community banks to money center banks. There is no cost to the bank to offer the program.
- BSG Financial
Deena Barr Phone: 502-245-8061
Jeff Harper Phone: 502-432-4272
» BSG Financial, a marketing and consulting firm based in Louisville, Kentucky, is a proven leader in the development of profit-enhancing programs for the financial industry. BSG Financial’s Re$ubmitIt® program—an electronic recovery solution that helps commercial accountholders significantly increase collections of NSF checks and other returned deposit items. Re$ubmitIt is simple to implement, FREE to businesses, and immediately increases income for member banks. It is completely NACHA-compliant and supported by multi-factor authentication.
- Strunk
and Associates, L.P.
Edgar Millan Phone:
773-342-2559
Jeff Stuepfert Phone: 847-867-3311
» Strunk and Associates, L.P. offers innovative profit improvement solutions for community bankers. They are the industry leader in implementing discretionary overdraft services in banks throughout the country.
Office Supplies and Equipment
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Office Depot
Dave Hornik
Phone: 630-355-7228
» Office Depot offers IBA members a company-wide core list of 200 items plus the flexibility for each IBA member to create a customized list of 50 unique items at a discount from the printed catalog. Additionally, items listed in the printed catalog that are excluded from the customized lists will receive a 10 percent discount off the public Web site pricing.
These discounts equal up to 80 percent off manufacturers’ list pricing. Office Depot does not require minimum orders and all items in the printed catalog include free shipping; exceptions may include designated furniture and promotional items.
Product discounts may be accessed via web site by clicking here or directly at the more than 1,000 U.S. Office Depot retail locations.
- Xerox Corporation
The ABA-Sponsored Xerox Program
Bruce Hellman Phone: 585-423-4002
» Banks can take advantage of national contract prices for the purchase or lease of Xerox copiers, duplicators, multi-functional devices, facsimile machines and other office equipment available through the local Xerox sales office. This program does not include Xerox products sold through retail chains, such as Staples or Office Depot.
» There are thousands of service reps located throughout the 50 states to serve both the needs of community bankers and larger financial institutions.
» Xerox's Total Satisfaction Guarantee: Xerox is dedicated to customer satisfaction. If a banker is not satisfied with the Xerox equipment purchased, Xerox will replace it--without charge--with an identical model or a machine with comparable features and capabilities. Contact your local Xerox rep for further details about Xerox's Total Satisfaction Guarantee.
Contact your local Xerox sales representative or authorized sales agent, and mention you are a member of the American Bankers Association and/or your State Bankers Association. To locate a Xerox representative near you, call the Bankers Hotline at 1-800-275-9376, ext. "BANK" (2265). Important: Make sure you reference the ABA contract number 0706438 when you purchase or lease your Xerox machine.
Operations and Consulting
- First Corporate Solutions (FCS)
914 S Street, Sacramento, CA 95811
Chris Cerruti
Phone: 800-406-1577 x5012 Fax: 800-230-2217
» FCS is a nationwide UCC & Corporate service provider, with clients ranging from government agencies to Fortune 500 and mid-size legal and financial institutions. We provide our clients with fast turn-around times and competitive pricing with no hidden fees, while preserving personalized customer service. Our firm’s capabilities include the research, retrieval and filing of public records with a comprehensive UCC online portfolio management system. We also provide unique services such as Account Monitoring, Registered Agent and Real Estate Title Services.
- Floodplain Consultants, Inc.
800 E. 56th Street,
Brownsburg, IN 46112
Craig Callahan
Phone: 317-858-4420
Fax: 317-858-4421
» Floodplain Consultants (FCI), a flood zone certification provider, provides extra service and accuracy via a site visit policy on all borderline properties, at no additional charge. By partnering with clients, FCI reduces staff workload, increases customer satisfaction, reduces the risk of costly compliance problems and helps improve the lender's bottom line.
- GlobalVision Systems, Inc.
Catherine Lew Phone: 818-998-7851, ext. 128
» GlobalVision's PATRIOTOfficer®,
an advanced and powerful Adaptive Intelligent BSA/AML/ATF system, uses Dynamic Multidimensional Risk-Weighted Suspicious Activities DetectorTM (US Patent Pending) to effectively automate the BSA/AML/ATF workflow by monitoring, screening, detecting, alerting, investigating and analyzing suspicious activities of all transactions across all product lines in financial institutions of all sizes with high resolution and accuracy. Thousands of compliance professionals are using the PATRIOT Officer to comply with the escalating stringent US regulatory requirements with peace of mind.
- Thumbprint Signature
Program (IBA is the sole licensee in Illinois)
Tamela Squires,
Phone: 800-783-2265
» The Thumbprint Signature® program was developed by the Texas Bankers Association and the Clearing House Association of the Southwest with the help of law enforcement officials and the full support of the FBI. More than 80 Illinois financial institutions participate in the program.
Retirement Services
- Ascensus
Jane Weizenegger, Phone: 800-346-3860
» A recognized leader in providing IRA, Coverdale Education Savings Accounts (ESAs), Health Savings Accounts, (HSAs), Simplified Employee Pension Plans (SEPs) and Savings Incentive Match Plan (SIMPLE) consulting, forms and documents, PC software, seminars, publications, compliance audits and administration to financial organizations nationwide.
- Empire Advisory Group, Inc.
4341 Acer Grover Rd., Ste. E
Springfield, Illinois 62711
David T. Brooks
Kris Brandon
Phone: 217-726-0100
» The Empire Advisory Group, Inc. develops and delivers a select offering of innovative, cost-effective financial products and services to small and mid-sized financial institutions and their commercial customers. These products and services include custom-built 401k Plans, Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation Plans, and Investment Advisory Services.
Until now, these financial institutions have lacked the scale (buying power) to receive “preferred” (reduced) fees for their corporate retirement plans. Consequently, they pay “retail” for “institutional” products and services.
Furthermore, these financial institutions have effectively been precluded from offering Proprietary, Private-Label retirement plan products and services to their commercial customers. By default, the “competition” serves their commercial customers.
We intend to change the status quo.
Shipping
- UPS - United Parcel Service
UPS National Association Hotline
Phone: 800-325-7000 (American Bankers Association Program)
» UPS offers banks discounts on overnight and 2nd Day Air letters and packages.
Tax Advantaged and CRA Eligible Investments
- Great Lakes Capital Fund (GLCF)
Jerome Sullivan
Phone: 630-723-8211 Fax: 608-260-0051
» GLCF offers opportunities to invest in pooled investment Low-income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) Funds, where financial institutions can earn a solid economic return on their capital and receive positive consideration toward their rating under CRA. Banks may also participate in developments by providing construction and/or permanent financing. As a designated Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), GLCF also offers financial institutions that are dedicated to financing and supporting community and economic development activities the opportunity to access certain benefits under Bank Enterprise Award (BEA) Program. Certified as a CDE, GLCF is eligible to receive a New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) allocation to offer it s investors in exchange for equity investments in the CDE and/or subsidiaries; or to receive loans or investments form other CDEs that have received NMTC allocations.
Technology
- Intuit Financial Services
Brett Morgan
Phone: 410-796-7216 Mobile: 410-926-6148
» Intuit Financial Services is the leading online banking provider for community, regional and national banks. Intuit Financial Services offers consumer and business Internet banking, online lending, electronic bill payment and presentment, check imaging, account-to-account transfers, website development and hosting and marketing programs designed to help increase online banking end user growth.
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