WAUSAU Financial Systems, Clear2Pay Partner to Offer Integrated Payments and Receivables Hub for Financial Institutions

BOSTON, Nov. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- ASSOCIATION FOR FINANCIAL PROFESSIONALS -- WAUSAU Financial Systems (Booth #831), a leading receivables processing solutions provider, and Clear2Pay (Booth #2304), a payments modernization company, today at the Association of Financial Professionals (AFP) Annual Conference announced their partnership, aimed at offering an end-to-end receivables and payables technology for financial institutions and their business customers with the launch of an Integrated Payments and Receivables Hub.

The partnership pairs Clear2Pay's Open Payment Framework (OPF) and bank payments hub with WAUSAU's integrated receivables hub, Receivable360™, to help financial institutions offer businesses the capability to manage their cash flow by streamlining current processes while providing a comprehensive view of all incoming and outgoing payments.

With WAUSAU and Clear2Pay's collaboration, financial institutions will benefit from a combined offering that provides value for businesses across all markets. The Integrated Payments and Receivables Hub works seamlessly with the financial institution's existing infrastructure and expedites processes such as all payment instruments, cash application, reporting and analytics, making it easy for financial institutions to meet stringent regulatory demands and for corporations to have a single transparent view on their positions and cash flow.

"Over the past few years, our research has shown a strong desire from corporate customers and financial institutions alike for a more robust receivables and payables solution that can take on the increasingly complicated marketplace," said Nancy Atkinson, senior analyst for Aite. "Integrating payables and receivables technology from experts in each field offers tremendous opportunities for improving financial visibility, streamlining processes and saving money."

"We take cues from the industry, and have heard the demand for a more synergistic receivables and payables solution," said Steve Buchberger, Senior Vice President of Strategy and Alliances for WAUSAU Financial Systems. "Banks are proactively seeking ways to drive fee revenue and increase customer retention. Our alliance with Clear2Pay helps banks to achieve these goals by offering enhanced payment services to their business customers."

For financial institutions, the Integrated Payments and Receivables Hub will help simplify the payments infrastructure through the integration of workflow, profits and insights, increasing efficiency and profitability with enhanced visibility of the ever-changing payment landscape.

"The seamless integration of our payables solution on the Open Payment Framework and WAUSAU's robust receivables platform will eliminate the headaches corporations currently face when dealing with payments issues and records," said Warren Gardiner, Chief Product and Strategy Officer for Clear2Pay. "The Integrated Payments and Receivables Hub is unique in that it goes beyond just aligning ERP payments and receivable streams and instead integrates all corporate related payment and receivable instruments including check, ACH, card and cash, among others, thereby automating, aggregating and accelerating the entire payments and receivables cycle. This is exactly what corporates have been asking for, for years: not just integration, but full transparency and insight to support their cash and risk management operations."

For more information, visit www.wausaufs.com.

About WAUSAU Financial Systems

WAUSAU Financial Systems is a premier provider of payment and receivables processing solutions, helping businesses of all types move money faster. With its products, services and consulting, WAUSAU works with customers to speed check processing, electronic presentment, ACH payments, transaction processing, distributed capture and enterprise content management. WAUSAU holds the No. 1 market share position in retail and wholesale remittance processing solutions. WAUSAU processes more than $1 trillion in payments each year through its work with more than 650 organizations, and maintains more than 30 percent of all U.S. lockbox volume. The company works with 13 of the 25 largest financial institutions, 42 percent of insurance companies with more than 5 million customers and 24 percent of utilities with more than 100,000 customers. More than 200 financial institutions use WAUSAU's remote deposit capture service, and industry consultants Celent and Aite have ranked WAUSAU's remote capture functionality above all competitors. For more information, visit www.wausaufs.com.

About Clear2Pay

Clear2Pay is a payments modernization company that actively supports many global financial institutions to meet their payments unification goals through its pure SOA Open Payment Framework (OPF). Headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, the company facilitates banks and financial organizations in their provision of payments services, whether they be Card, ACH, Branch, Bulk, High Care or International payment transactions. Clear2Pay's innovative technology helps to reduce transactions processing costs, and to deliver new, compelling payment services in a competitive way. Functions embrace payments origination, reporting, linkage with back-office processing systems, clearing, netting and settlement. In addition the company offers a range of value added payment technology solutions and services such as e-Banking, the Open Test Platform, ChargeBack, Strategic Consultancy and Payments Training through a dedicated Academy. Clients include global and major regional financial institutions such as ING, Banco Santander, Credit Agricole, MasterCard, BNP Paribas, The Federal Reserve, NETS (Denmark), The People Bank of China (PBOC), Bank of East Asia, Rabobank, The Co-operative Financial Services and Commonwealth Bank. Clear2Pay operates out of Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, United Kingdom, United States, Australia, China, Malaysia and Singapore and currently employs over 750 staff. Recently, the company was awarded the XCelent Customer Base 2010 award for its undisputed largest payment hub customer base, both live and under implementation and ranks 81st in the Global FinTech100.

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