Associate Members

Non-bank organizations can participate in the Kansas Bankers Association as Associate Members. Associate membership provides organizations exposure to hundreds of decision-makers throughout the Kansas banking community and many opportunities to showcase your company through our publications, conventions and seminars.

ASSOCIATE MEMBER BENEFITS

SIGNATURE ASSOCIATE MEMBER BENEFITS

A select number of Associate Members may be eligible for increased membership benefits through our signature program. Signature Membership includes all Associate Member benefits in addition to an upgraded website listing and a membership badge to include on your website.

Signature Associate Members may also choose three of the following benefits:

Associate Member Directory

AFFILIATE FINANCIAL MEMBERS

Affiliate Financial Membership is available to out-of-state chartered banks that do not have any operating branches in the state of Kansas. Affiliate Financial Membership includes the same benefits offered to Associate Members.

ENDORSED VENDORS

Kansas Bankers Association is proud to endorse these organizations for their support of the banking community.

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Abrigo enables more than 2,400 U.S. financial institutions to support their communities through technology and advisory services that grow loans and deposits and optimize risk. Abrigo’s platform centralizes the institution’s data, creates a digital user experience, and delivers efficiency for scale and profitable growth. Abrigo’s team of industry experts can give your institution guidance needed to stay on the path towards increased profitability. From portfolio risk and CECL to BSA/AML, our advisory services team helps you solve problems.

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.

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. 

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 Maddison Harner at info@banktalenthq.com or by phone at 217-789-9340.

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! 

Committed to providing best in class service, CalTech’s expertise is optimizing technology for financial institutions by creating unique business-aligned IT strategies. With over 25 years of experience in the financial industry, CalTech’s services and solutions are designed to increase your financial institutions’s profitability and boost productivity and efficiency while ensuring the security and the prosperity of your business.

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 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.

Promontory Interfinancial Network is now IntraFi NetworkSM. Having built the largest bank network of its kind, we’re a trusted ally to community banks that never competes with banks for their customers and that helps them to attract and maintain valuable customer relationships, grow reciprocal deposits, manage liquidity and generate fee income, diversify funding, and reduce collateralization. Work with the market leader to grow profitability and increase franchise value.

IntraFi Network’s innovative balance-sheet management solution — known as IntraFiSM Network DepositsSM (formerly CDARS®, ICS®, and IND® deposit solutions) — empowers institutions to increase profitability, grow franchise value, manage liquidity more easily, and serve customers better. To learn more, visit IntraFi.com.

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.

KeyState Captive Management (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. 

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. 

To sign up and start saving today, use the links below.

KBA Bank & Associate Member Registration (Corporate)

The consolidation of OnCourse Learning’s 600+ online courses with Total Training Solutions’ 300+ webinars has resulted in a compliance and professional training platform that is second to none. OnCourse Learning’s online education empowers financial institutions to grow employee skills with comprehensive enterprise compliance, risk management and professional development online education, while Total Training Solutions”webinars provide an efficient, flexible and timely method for staying informed on a myriad of topics. Also offered is a robust, customizable learning management system, with a built-in library. 

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 and Missouri Bankers Associations.

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, generate alpha, 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. Visit us at http://marketintelligence.spglobal.com/client-solutions/users/community-banking or contact us at 877-863-1306. 

Information Destruction Services for the Financial Industry

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.

To setup or inquire about Shred-it service, please fill out the contact form at https://www.shredit.com/en-us/national-accounts/state-bankers-association-program.

If you are already a Shred-it customer and would like to access the Association’s discounts you may request to join this program after your current contract has passed 50% of its term. Simply contact sitretgpochange@stericycle.com with your account information. 

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 has been providing fee income strategies to community banks since 1993. Our Overdraft Privilege program is being used by over 1,800 banks across the country including over 120 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. Strunk’s new Quilo program provides an all digital (smartphone) lending solution to community banks. Your bank can make consumer loans profitably with the Quilo tool. Check our website at www.strunklp.com or give us a call at 816-225-8793.

KBA THUMBPRINT SIGNATURE PROGRAM
In an effort to combat fraud, the Kansas Bankers Association offers the Thumbprint Signature Program to banks and retailers across the state. This program, developed by the Texas Bankers Association in 1995 provides a low tech, low cost and effective method for preventing and deterring check fraud. Customers are asked to place an impression of their thumbprint on the face of the check. A small inkless touchpad facilitates the process, and leaves no stain or residue on users or clothing. To participate or order supplies, email jfigge@ksbankers.com.

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 4 unique marketing tools: On-Hold Messages/Music for your phone system, Digital Lobby Video, Website Video and Overhead Lobby Music.

KBA members receive a 90-day trial period on any of our services with a 100% money back guarantee. Go to www.Works24.com to find out more or call Brian Robinson at 800-460-4653 x105.