Hong Kong – Striata, a recognized innovator in electronic bill presentment and payment solutions and secure eDocument delivery, announced that they have expanded their international presence with the establishment of an office in Hong Kong, which will provide paper turn-off solutions throughout Asia.
"This move enables us to extend our value added services to this region, by developing customized solutions for them," says Mike Wright, CEO of Striata.
Fiserv (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading provider of information technology services to the financial industry, announced today that its financial institution customers have significantly increased their e-bill (electronic bill) activation rates in the six months since implementing the most recent upgrade of Fiserv's CheckFree Web RXP.
Bil Manes, a ten-year veteran in the electronic bill presentment and payment(EBPP) industry, has joined Transactis, the industry leader in email billing technologies. Joe Proto, CEO, Transactis, made the announcement.
As Vice President, Business Development, Transactis, Mr. Manes will work with targeted accounts and strategic resellers to offer the company's secure email billing solution, BillMail® – the patent-pending solution that allows consumers to view and pay their bills securely from within the email.
B2C eBilling has failed. In its many guises (Electronic Billing, EBPP, EIPP, Paperless Billing), ebilling has been around for many years now, yet adoption rates continue to fall dismally short of expectations. The replacement of environmentally damaging paper bills with convenient electronic bills, has achieved adoption rates of no more than 10% to 15% across industries, despite the claimed benefits for the environment, business and consumers.
Why is something so obviously beneficial so problematic? What is it going to take to get consumers to engage in an electronic billing relationship that turns off paper, saves costs and improves service delivery? How do we get consumers to "Go Green"?
Fiserv (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading provider of information technology services to the financial industry, and PSCU Financial Services, the nation's largest credit union service organization (CUSO), announced today that they will co-sponsor an e-mail marketing campaign targeting consumers of financial institutions served by PSCU Financial Services to become a part of their Go Paperless, Go Green Campaign.
The two companies will sponsor the planting of one tree for every bill paid online by a new bill-pay subscriber at the financial institution's website from Jan. 19 through Feb. 28, 2009. This year, the two companies have set a goal of planting at least 7,000 trees in the John M. Bethea State Forest in Glen St. Mary, Fla.
