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Note towards the bottom the description of Integrion:
<<< MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU) today announced that it plans to enable consumers to view electronic bills in the new version of its best-selling personal finance software program, Quicken 98 for Windows. The new service, Online Billing through Quicken 98, is based on an open architecture electronic bill presentment server solution featuring the Open Financial Exchange(TM) data communications protocol. The Open Financial Exchange specification was initially created by Intuit, Microsoft and CheckFree and is now supported by a broad array of financial service, processing and technology companies. . . .
"Integrion fully supports Intuit's and its partners' approach to electronic bill presentment, as it is consistent with our member banks' strategy of full participation in an open bill presentment industry," commented Bill Fennimore, President of Integrion, a consortium of 17 leading banks, IBM and Visa U.S.A.
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