The Revival of Correspondent Banking: How Today's Tech-Wise Community Banks Are Reinvigorating Demand
Tags: Bank / Credit Union, Consulting, Other
Source: Carreker Corporation
Type: White Paper
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In recent years, the large correspondents have sensed a competitive threat from community banks in the form of image processing. They have not been mistaken. Smaller banks, now fully image-enabled, can compete with their larger counterparts for cash management business. Sometimes they score wins by getting to market faster with newer products and technology. Sometimes, because image eliminates the geographical advantages of large banks with their money-center locations and proximity to airports, smaller banks have successfully competed for national depositors.

Early adopters of remote deposit capture will capture deposits of those late to the game, and large size will be little advantage. That would be the funeral oratory, if a funeral were in order. But on closer inspection, those same trends can have the equal and opposite effect. The transition from paper to electronics, the new deposit products, the rise of remote deposit — they can also entrain new opportunities for large correspondents.

Download now to explore the new opportunities for correspondent banking offered through insights from the customer's point of view...