CheckFree's OpenChannel(SM) Strategy Establishes the Foundation for a New Generation of Integrated Online Financial Services
2007年11月14日 - 11:00PM
PRニュース・ワイアー (英語)
ATLANTA and LAS VEGAS, Nov. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BAI Retail
Delivery Conference Booth #2021 - CheckFree Corporation
(NASDAQ:CKFR) today unveiled its innovative OpenChannel(SM)
strategy, laying the foundation for a new generation of integrated
and optimized online financial services that deliver greater
flexibility and lower total cost of ownership for financial
institutions of all sizes. CheckFree's OpenChannel provides a
flexible range of options for implementing online banking and bill
payment functionality across multiple channels. Utilizing
industry-standard web services, financial institutions can
customize the presentation of online banking and bill payment
functionality to meet the unique needs of their customers and
differentiate their online capabilities. USAA, a Fortune 200
diversified financial services company, leveraged CheckFree's
OpenChannel strategy and the CheckFree Builder(TM) suite of open
web services components to customize its online banking and bill
payment user experience and streamline navigation to better serve
its 6 million members. "USAA's global membership relies extensively
on usaa.com, so we place a premium on making our services as
accessible and easy to use as possible through the online channel,"
said Jeff Dennes, executive director, USAA. "CheckFree OpenChannel
gives us the control and flexibility we need to enhance the user
experience, improve integration across the site, and deliver a full
range of online and mobile banking functionality to our members."
CheckFree's flexible deployment options enable financial
institutions to seamlessly integrate online banking, electronic
billing and payment, and selected value-added services into an
end-to-end solution that can either be fully hosted by CheckFree or
used as individual components as part of a hybrid model that they
can integrate into their existing environments. Leveraging the same
web services that push electronic banking and bill payment
functionality to a financial institution's online channel,
CheckFree can also enable access to these services across multiple
channels, including mobile devices, ATMs, kiosk, teller stations
and contact centers. By providing their customers with more
options, financial institutions can increase satisfaction and
retention. "The online channel is a growing priority for financial
institutions as they seek to optimize customer loyalty, retention
and profitability," said Alex Hart, executive vice president and
general manager, CheckFree Electronic Banking Services. "CheckFree
OpenChannel brings together the industry's best online banking and
bill payment capabilities with an extremely flexible approach to
integrating, implementing and managing world class financial
management solutions across a diverse range of devices, channels
and platforms." "As online financial services evolves, the
integration and management of new, compelling services into the
legacy environment threatens to bring more complexity, preventing
banks from maximizing the return on investment through an optimal
customer experience," said James Van Dyke, president and founder of
Javelin Strategy & Research. "As a result, open and flexible
system approaches for integrating diverse electronic financial
content and services becomes more important for helping financial
institutions keep up with the rapid pace of new technology
services, such as more interactive bills and statements, and online
money management capabilities, converging content from lines of
business and much more." Financial institutions can use the
OpenChannel strategy to take advantage of new capabilities, such
as: -- Electronic Bill Payment Integration - Industry-standard web
services can enable financial institutions to quickly and
cost-effectively implement a wide range of online banking and
electronic bill payment functionality to a user interface that they
control while leveraging their existing technologies. --
Value-Based Routing /Payment Preference - The OpenChannel strategy
enables financial institutions to deliver premium content, such as
data-fed electronic bills, and additional capabilities such as
expedited payments and card-based payments. In addition, CheckFree
plans to expand the processing window to approximately 10 p.m.
Eastern time to enable even more payments to be processed by the
next business day. Whether the payment warehouse is standalone or
part of an integrated CheckFree solution, financial institutions
can control payments data, routing and the user experience, while
reducing total cost of ownership and taking advantage of increased
revenue-generating opportunities. -- Security - The OpenChannel
strategy is designed to enable CheckFree FraudNet(TM), a proactive
fraud detection and case management system, to be delivered as part
of a service-based model. Utilizing web services, a financial
institution can leverage the power and intelligence of CheckFree's
extensive bill payment network by sending payments to CheckFree for
scoring. Those payments that fail to meet the financial
institution's risk threshold could then be proactively stopped
before they are processed. -- Cross Sell and Upsell Services -
OpenChannel enables financial institutions to leverage the rich
data in their CheckFree payment warehouse as well as data from
other sources to analyze consumer behavior for their specific
customer segments, and to plan and execute targeted marketing
campaigns aimed at improving online banking and bill payment
adoption and usage. -- Mobile Banking and Payments - Through web
services, CheckFree enables banks and credit unions to offer
customers the convenience of banking and paying bills using their
mobile devices. OpenChannel provides the flexibility to support a
wide range of technologies, including micro- browser wireless
application protocol (WAP), short message service (SMS) text
messaging and device-resident applications. Some financial
institutions will choose one of these technologies, while others
may use a combination of approaches to support different online
banking and bill payment functionality, such as paying bills,
checking account balances or payment histories, transferring funds
or receiving alerts. About USAA (http://www.usaa.com/) USAA, a
diversified financial services company, is the leading provider of
competitively priced financial planning, banking, investment, and
insurance products to members of the U.S. military and their
families. Named by BusinessWeek as 2007's Customer Service
Champion, USAA provides convenient and accessible financial
products to its 6 million members. For more information about USAA,
or to learn more about membership, visit http://usaa.com/. About
CheckFree (http://www.checkfreecorp.com/) Founded in 1981,
CheckFree Corporation (NASDAQ:CKFR) provides financial electronic
commerce services and products to organizations around the world.
CheckFree Electronic Commerce solutions enable financial services
providers to offer the convenience of online banking, and, along
with billers, to offer the convenience of receiving and paying
bills online, via phone or in person through retail outlets.
CheckFree Investment Services provides a broad range of investment
management solutions and outsourced services to hundreds of
financial services organizations, which manage about $1.8 trillion
in assets. CheckFree Software develops, markets and supports
software applications that are used by financial institutions to
process more than 75 percent of the nearly 16 billion Automated
Clearing House transactions in the United States. The division also
provides financial institutions and other organizations with
payment processing and consulting, reconciliation and exception
management, fraud and risk management, cash and logistics
management, and compliance software and services. Certain of
CheckFree's statements in this press release are not purely
historical, and as such are "forward-looking statements" within the
meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
These include statements regarding management's intentions, plans,
beliefs, expectations or projections of the future. Forward-looking
statements involve risks and uncertainties, including without
limitation, the various risks inherent in CheckFree's business, and
other risks and uncertainties detailed from time to time in
CheckFree's periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, including CheckFree's Annual Report on Form 10-K for
the year ended June 30, 2007 (filed August 24, 2007), and Quarterly
Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2007 (filed
November 7, 2007). One or more of these factors have affected, and
could in the future affect CheckFree's business and financial
results in future periods, and could cause actual results to differ
materially from plans and projections. There can be no assurance
that the forward-looking statements made in this press release will
prove to be accurate, and issuance of such forward-looking
statements should not be regarded as a representation by CheckFree,
or any other person, that the objectives and plans of CheckFree
will be achieved. All forward-looking statements made in this press
release are based on information presently available to management,
and CheckFree assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking
statements. DATASOURCE: CheckFree Corporation CONTACT: Media,
Sheryl Roehl, +1-678-375-1682, , or Investors, Tina Moore,
+1-678-375-1278, Web site: http://www.checkfreecorp.com/
http://www.usaa.com/
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