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To: Mama Bear who wrote (7235)	6/26/1999 6:17:00 PM
From: Erik T	Respond to of 20297

Rereading recent releases and news articles: Nonetheless, competitive pressures and a desire to improve customer service are pushing billers into online bill presentment, according to a survey released today by PricewaterhouseCoopers and American Banker magazine. Banks, which see themselves as logical outsourcers for billers to present bills and consumers to pay them online, fared poorly in survey results. Only 17 percent of billers said they look to their bank as a method to deliver their bills, with 35 percent each naming their own Web site or the Web site of a consolidator like Intuit, TransPoint, or an Internet portal. "That's a huge wake-up call for banks," said Norman. "Banks have focused on the consumer side, but the corporate side has only been waking up in the last year because of TransPoint." news.com Of course CheckMonkey barely gets mentioned at the end of the article. It is no wonder the banks are scared. Erik