Source Technologies' White Papers

Source Technologies has produced this series of FREE industry white papers to educate our customers, partners, and prospects on critical industry issues and trends.

Self-Service White Papers
New! Pick a Card, Any Card: Self-Service and the Stored Value Card Revolution
> Self-Service Bill Payment: Killer App on a Kiosk
> Teller-Assisted Self-Service: The New Face on Retail Banking
> Deconstructing the Branch
> When Worlds Collide: The Coming Battle Over the Unbanked

MICR Check Printing White Papers
New! Remote Check Funding: An Emerging Best Practice in Mortgage Closings
                                                New! MICR Printing Technology: Automating Staffing Payroll Check Issuance
                                                New! MICR Printing Technology: Automating Securities Check Issuance
                                                > Official Check Fraud: Spotting the Blind Spot
                                                > MICR Printing Technology: Automating Official Check Issuance
                                                > The Buyer's Guide to MICR Printing Solutions
                                                > IRD Print Management: Ten Keys to Successful Implementation

Self-Service White Papers

Pick a Card, Any Card: Self-Service and the Stored Value Card Revolution
Stored value cards are becoming increasingly popular for merchants of all kinds.  Department stores, specialty retailers, discounters and electronics stores now offer and promote them. And, supermarkets, restaurants and gas stations have also jumped on board in the hopes of cashing in on this profitable market. As stored value cards gain popularity with consumers, they are also becoming more attractive for fraudsters.  This white paper discusses the types of stored value card fraud and how self-service technology can be leveraged to eliminate fraud and create other operational efficiencies at the point of sale.
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Self-Service Bill Payment: Killer App on a Kiosk
Most retailers, utilities, mobile phone operators and financial institutions offer branch bill payment to their customers. This paper introduces the concept of self-service bill payment and provides a deeper understanding of how self-service technology can alleviate the strain that these payments put on retail operations, and the business case for deploying such solutions in retail locations.
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Teller-Assisted Self-Service: The New Face of Retail Banking
Self-service is not a new concept for financial institutions, however recent advances have spawned a new generation self-service technology: teller-assisted self-service.  This paper introduces this concept, explains why ATMs can't deliver the same capabilities, and how this technology is revolutionizing the customer's branch banking experience.
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Deconstructing the Branch:
Transactional kiosks are turning retailers into bankers. Will the push for self-service automation eventually doom the bank branch itself?

Traditional banking practices are slowly transitioning away from the bank branch, as many retailers are now beginning to offer financial services to their customers.  In this paper, learn how self-service technology allows retailers to offer these services without negatively impacting their retail operations, and can actually deliver increased retail traffic, greater customer loyalty and new promotional channels and revenue streams. 
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When Worlds Collide: The Coming Battle Over the Unbanked
In recent years the unbanked has experienced unprecedented growth to become the largest untapped financial services market in US history.  This paper discusses what major players are emerging and how self-service technology will be vital for these companies to successfully serve this important market.
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MICR Check Printing White Papers

Remote Check Funding: An Emerging Best Practice in Mortgage Closings
This newly-released discusses the new concept of Remote Check Funding, and how mortgage bankers, wholesale lenders, title companies and closing attorneys are using it to cut costs and streamline their most important business processes.  It goes on to explain how mortgage bankers can use remote check funding to gain a considerable competitive advantage in acquiring and retaining title companies and attorneys as commercial clients, and how other companies can leverage remote check funding to gain new sources of revenue and to better manage the delivery of their products and services to the end-consumer.
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Official Check Fraud: Spotting the Blind Spot
Official check fraud is a topic that many companies don't like to discuss.  However, there is technology available that can virtually eliminate this risk.  This paper discusses the major types of official check fraud, the current application of technology for managing official check issuance, and compares average bank performances versus best-practice institutions in controlling or eliminating official check fraud.
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MICR Printing Technology: Automating Official Check Issuance
For those that are less familiar with MICR technology, this paper introduces the concepts behind MICR check printing by identifying what MICR is and how this technology enables businesses to bring best-practice official check issuance into their organizations.
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MICR Printing Technology: Automating Securities Check Issuance
This white paper introduces the basics behind MICR printing technology, and how this technology can help securities companies to better serve their customers, create a competitive advantage and streamline operations by offering on-demand dividend and interest checks in the branch. This white paper will reveal how MICR technology delivers best-practice check issuance to securities companies of all sizes.
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MICR Printing Technology: Automating Staffing Payroll Check Issuance
This newly-released white paper defines and discusses the basics behind MICR printing technology, and, how this technology can give staffing companies a competitive advantage by offering on-demand paychecks in the branch, in addition to and streamlining other daily operations. This white paper also reveals how MICR technology delivers best-practice check issuance to staffing companies of all sizes.
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The Buyer's Guide to MICR Printing Solutions
Before making a buying decision for MICR check printers, make sure to read this guide that identifies critical issues that you need to consider.  It is intended to help organizations assess the risks involved in MICR printing and avoid pitfalls in implementing an automated disbursement solution.
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IRD Print Management: Ten Keys to Successful Implementation
This paper offers ten suggestions on successfully planning and implementing your Check 21 and IRD strategy: managing IRD-related business processes, controlling your IRD printing environment, and IRD risk management.
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