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LendingTools.com Opens Technology Development Center in Birmingham, Alabama
| Source: LendingTools.com
WICHITA, KS and BIRMINGHAM, AL--(Marketwire - June 23, 2008) - LendingTools.com, a leading
application service provider (ASP) for correspondent institutions serving
community banks, announced today it has opened a development center in
Birmingham, Alabama. The new site is in addition to a development center
located in the company's headquarters in Wichita, Kansas. Primary research
and development in the office will focus on network infrastructure support
and new service offerings.
Eddie Ageeb, Product Development Manager, joined LendingTools.com in
January and now oversees all software development, quality control and
change control activities for the company. With 20 years of experience from
Marquette Bank and Document Solutions, Inc. Mr. Ageeb has served as
Director of Product Quality, Director of Technical Services, Director of
Sales Support, Vice President of Client Services and Vice President of
Business Development. With the acquisition of Document Solutions by Open
Solutions, Inc., Ageeb advanced to Vice President of Operations for the
item processing group. Now living in Birmingham, AL, Mr. Ageeb graduated
from St. Augustine's College, Nassau, Bahamas, and Control Data Institute,
Minneapolis, Minnesota.
"We selected Birmingham for the location of this office because of its pool
of technology talent with banking experience," stated Theron Goering, Chief
Information Officer for LendingTools.com. "Alabama has a favorable business
climate and it meets our needs for geographic separation of operations to
facilitate disaster recovery functions."
LendingTools.com sells a comprehensive series of services to establish
private correspondent bank environments. The services include over 30
transaction types for cash management including originating and processing
ACH items and domestic and international wires as well as image deposit,
cash letters and exchange. The daily dollar value processed through the
services exceeds two billion dollars and is growing rapidly.
"A pillar of commitment to our customers is uninterrupted, fast response
for their daily business transactions," stated Ageeb. He continued saying,
"that requires us to be forward looking in our infrastructure capabilities
and new service offerings. To ensure only the best service continues to be
provided to our customers, a core goal of the Birmingham staff will be to
keep our capabilities comfortably ahead of the performance curve as we
grow." Initial staffing for the Birmingham office has been completed.
About LendingTools.com
LendingTools.com, Inc. specializes in the design and delivery of web-based
applications for the financial services industry and delivers them through
correspondent processing organizations. Its OnWe® Network provides a low cost option
for community bank image exchange through a series of OnWe Network
Community Hosts. Over 28 percent of the nations' banks utilize one or
more LendingTools.com services daily to originate and process ACH, wire, and imaged check transactions valued in excess of two billion dollars.
Among others, OnWe, onwe, On-We and on-we are registered trademarks of
LendingTools.com. "The last mile for image exchange" is a registered
service mark of LendingTools.com. A privately held corporation,
LendingTools.com was founded by and is now operated by former bankers.
Please visit www.LendingTools.com and www.OnWe.com for more information.