Strategic Partners

Purple Wave Auction operates as a full-service seller agent to remarket agricultural, construction and transportation assets. We provide a personalized, turn-key solution for right-sizing operational assets for borrowers and bank-owned equipment sales. Purple Wave is an endorsed vendor of the Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma Bankers Associations.

Office Depot has a new look and a new name as ODP Business Solutions. ODP Business Solutions is the world’s leading seller of office supplies and an industry leader in every distribution channel – from retail stores and contract delivery to catalogs and e-commerce.  As an ODP Business Solutions customer you have access to ODP’s exclusive Business Services Division website, strategic brand name partnerships, multi-billion dollar buying power, and ease in economizing your operations.  Enjoy customer service from ODP that is unmatched in the industry.

S&P Global Market Intelligence is committed to the success of community banks. We integrate financial and industry data, research and news into tools that help track performance, identify investment ideas, understand competitive and industry dynamics, perform valuation and assess credit risk. Community banks can gain the intelligence essential to making business and financial decisions with conviction.

Shred-it specializes in providing a tailored document and media destruction service that allows businesses to comply with legislation and ensure that the client, employee and confidential business information is kept secure at all times. Through their strict chain-of-custody processes, reliable on-time service and a global network of local service centers, Shred-it provides the most secure and efficient confidential information destruction service in the industry.

StrategyCorps helps financial institutions grow core deposits, fee income and overall retail checking relationships with innovative and energizing solutions to differentiate their checking products and enhance profitability. Nearly 350 banks and financial institutions employ our analysis tools, white-labeled reward products and mobile solutions for checking success.

Strunk’s newest Loan and Deposit Pricing Solution will help your bank win more deals while meeting your target profitability goals. On average a bank will see their net interest margin increase by 25-50 bp. Strunk has been providing income strategies to community banks since 1993. Our Overdraft Privilege program is being used by over 1,800 banks across the country including over 130 banks in Kansas. Strunk’s Value Checking has become a very popular strategy to increase fee income by giving consumers valuable services for a small fee. Strunk’s Risk Management Solution substantially reduces the time to do risk assessments. It is an affordable comprehensive risk management tool that exceeds regulatory requirements.

Works24 offers the fastest and easiest communication methods to tell your customers about all the other ways you can help them with your bank products and services. This is accomplished with four unique marketing tools: On-Hold Messages/Music for your phone system, Digital Lobby Video, Website Video and Overhead Lobby Music. In partnership with the KBA we offer a 90-day trial period on any of our services with a 100% money back guarantee.

Check printing profit margins remain incredibly high—and a skilled contract negotiator can often discover savings of $500,000 for banks with over 30,000 checking accounts and $1,000,000 or more for banks with 60,000 checking accounts. Jim Schartman, Executive Vice President of Check Printing Contract Consulting, is a leading independent authority on check printing contracts with 37 years of experience. Jim has worked for leading check printing companies in the country and learned where banks can shave margins and find significant savings. As a KBA Endorsed Vendor, CPCC works on behalf of community banks and their check printing vendors to negotiate agreements that build profitable check programs, reduce costs and optimize fee income. CPCC is only paid a percentage of savings—so if they don’t save you money, they don’t get paid.

Cornerstone Advisors’ multidisciplinary team brings deep industry insight from working alongside banks for over two decades. Our unique, client-focused Knowledge Vaults house the extensive data we use for Contract and Vendor Intelligence, Performance Metrics, and Industry Insights and Analysis. Cornerstone is a consulting firm that helps banks reduce expenses and improve efficiency. KBA’s endorsement includes contract negotiation services to reduce expenses, market-priced contracts, and improved contract terms. With Cornerstone as your partner, you’ll get an entirely objective assessment of your vendor contracts and the most competitive pricing and terms available in the market – all delivered by the most qualified team of negotiators. Working with Cornerstone Advisors, you’ll gain the best pricing, service levels, and terms on your vendor contracts – plus more time to focus on future performance and growth. Contract negotiation services provided by Cornerstone include Core Systems, Ancillary Technology (ATM/ITM, Bill Pay, Digital, Item Processing, Loan Deposit Operations, Trust & Wealth Management, Telecom), Mergers, and Debit and Credit Processing.

KBA has partnered with BankTalentHQ to help you find the best employee for the job! BankTalentHQ is the premier talent management site for financial industry careers, brought to you by an alliance of state banking associations working together. Whether you are looking for a job with a financial institution, a service provider or regulator, or you are an employer with a position to fill, BankTalentHQ can help you find what you need.

For more information, contact Ben Jackson at info@banktalenthq.com or by phone at 217-789-9340.

BankMarketingCenter.com (BMC) is a web-based marketing portal that empowers banks to produce professionally designed, bank-branded marketing materials in a matter of seconds. BMC puts you in complete control of the ad production process for your bank, saving valuable time and money. BMC has thousands of successful marketing materials including ads, direct mail, statement stuffers, flyers, posters, digital signage and more. The process is easy. On the site, you can select a marketing piece and customize it within seconds. Your bank’s logo and contact info will be automatically inserted into the ad. You can edit the copy, colors, fonts, and select from over nine million stock photos from Getty Images. Finished materials are then sent automatically to your compliance department for approval and then to your publication or printer.

Cornerstone Advisors’ multidisciplinary team brings deep industry insight that comes from having worked alongside banks for nearly two decades. Our unique, client-focused Knowledge Vaults house the extensive data we use for Contract and Vendor Intelligence, Performance Metrics, and Industry Insights and Analysis. Cornerstone is a consulting firm that helps Banks reduce expenses and improve efficiency. KBA’s endorsement includes contract negotiation services to deliver reduced expenses, market priced contracts and improved contract terms. With Cornerstone as your partner, you’ll get an entirely objective assessment of your vendor contracts and the most competitive pricing and terms available in the market – all delivered by the most qualified team of negotiators. Working with Cornerstone Advisors you’ll gain the best pricing, service levels and terms on your vendor contracts – plus more time to focus on future performance and growth. Contract negotiation services provided by Cornerstone include: Core Systems, Ancillary Technology (ATM/ITM, Bill Pay, Digital, Item Processing, Loan Deposit Operations, Trust & Wealth Management, Telecom), Mergers, Debit and Credit Processing.

We provide a supplemental insurance program specializing in cancer/intensive care plans. All American Associates has overseen the KBA-sponsored cancer/intensive care plans since 1972.

KeyState  is the country’s largest provider of captive management and investment portfolio services to community banks. KeyState offers banks with over $1 billion in assets the opportunity to form a wholly-owned captive insurance company through its Bank Captive Program. A captive insurance company, or a legally licensed limited purpose property and casualty insurance company, can augment a bank’s commercial policies by covering the existing commercial deductible layers, increasing coverage levels on existing policies (excess layers), and identifying other currently unfunded risks to insure where commercial insurance is not available to the bank.

Through a captive, banks can:
Improve their enterprise risk management;
Better manage unfunded risks;
Formalize a self-insurance program;
Realize efficiencies and savings related to insurance expenses and loss mitigation; and
Take advantage of a small business incentive available under a section of the Tax Code.

KeyState’s team offers a turnkey product and assists the bank every step along the way.
Visit us at key-state.com or contact us at contact@key-state.com or 702.598.3738 for more information.

Abrigo enables 2500+ U.S. financial institutions to support their communities through technology that fights financial crime, grows loans and deposits, and optimizes risk. Abrigo’s platform centralizes the institution’s data, creates a digital user experience, ensures compliance, and delivers efficiency for scale and profitable growth.

Committed to providing best-in-class service, Integris specializes in optimizing technology for financial institutions by designing unique business-aligned IT strategies. With over 30 years of experience in the financial industry, our services are designed to increase your financial institution’s profitability and efficiency while ensuring the security of your business.

Chosen by over 3,000 financial institutions, IntraFi has provided deposit placement and wholesale funding services for more than 20 years. IntraFi’s network—the largest of its kind—brings scale, giving each participant access to tens of billions of dollars in funding, the highest per-depositor and per-bank capacity, and the peace of mind of being able to make large-dollar placements. The company invented reciprocal deposits and its tested, trusted solutions are utilized by financial institutions of all sizes. IntraFi helps its network participants grow strong, loyal customer relationships, fund more loans, earn fee income, and seamlessly manage liquidity through all market conditions.

Juniper Payments delivers payment solutions through correspondent and direct relationships with banks. Our modular solutions are utilized by more than 3,500 financial institutions daily to drive payments from origination to delivery both foreign and domestic. From ACH, wires and international solutions to full reporting needs and complex security, Juniper takes care of the technology, so you can focus on your customer’s needs.

BVS is a fully integrated development company that has been helping financial institutions better serve their customers and members for more than 30 years. No matter your role in the organization, BVS’s comprehensive and customizable online training program has a wide range of tools that will help you achieve your goals. Their blended learning system supports face-to-face instructor-led training, the delivery of e-learning and highly effective Internet self-study. A variety of training topics are available for CEOs, COOs, HR, lenders, retail bankers, compliance personnel, security officers and IT.
*KBA members will receive preferred pricing!

OnCourse Learning empowers financial institutions to create compliant workforces through in-depth eLearning experiences by preparing their employees with a comprehensive enterprise compliance, risk management and professional development education. Over 10,000 financial institutions and partners have adopted OnCourse Learning solutions to efficiently manage complexity, change and growth. Plus, over the course of our 40+ year history we have trained over 225,000 individuals with our NMLS-approved licensure and continuing education courses. Our live and OnDemand webinars are a convenient and affordable way to learn about important compliance, regulatory and professional development topics. Financial industry experts deliver relevant, timely information while participants can ask questions, download materials and engage with the instructor. OnDemand webinar recordings are available to watch at your convenience. Over 350 webinars annually to choose from.

KBA-Endorsed BCC is a national firm with a local presence, assisting banks with BOLI portfolio management and non-qualified benefit plans to help attract, retain, and incentivize your bank’s most import asset – your people. Regional Managing Director Rich Bratten is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA) and a CFA Charterholder with over 25 years of experience in this market. Rich’s son Cody is now a full partner after having worked alongside Rich the last five years. While Cody’s advanced engineering degrees from MIT and Michigan demonstrate impressive technical skills, it’s his ability to develop strong relationships with clients that truly sets him apart. Rich and Cody pioneered the BCC BOLI Audit program, which can give you an objective review of your BOLI portfolio, identify strengths and weaknesses, and put you on a path to better performance. KBA members have access to the BCC BOLI Audit program free of charge.