WHAT:
Hear from a leading industry analyst, bank executive and technology consultant how banks are enhancing processes, automating workflow and integrating systems to implement "straight through processing" in business and commercial lending. Straight through processing (STP) streamlines and integrates the flow of work, info and documentation from sales to credit analysis, decisioning, due diligence, documentation, closing, funding, booking and into servicing.

Real world case studies will highlight the benefits achieved by financial institutions on the forefront of STP procedures and technologies. In addition, preliminary survey results will be presented from the ongoing Best Practices in Business and Commercial Lending Survey conducted jointly by IBM Global Services and CapitalStream.

Representatives from TowerGroup, Wesbanco and CapitalStream will discuss the following:

Patty Hines, senior analyst wholesale banking, TowerGroup, will present the high-level trends in commercial and business lending as well as give a review of the best practices. She will also provide a summary of findings from the commercial lending report, "A Perfect Storm: Commercial Loan Origination Market Drivers" and the business lending report, "Small Business Loan Origination: Spanning the Continuum".

David Yaeger, vice president, Wesbanco, will present an overview of the new straight through commercial lending process at Wesbanco and the types of automation and integration technologies that were utilized. He will also give a summary of the implementation project highlighting what worked and what did not and review of the benefits achieved.

Mike Pennell, executive vice president, CapitalStream, will present technology trends and preliminary survey results from the ongoing "Best Practices in Business and Commercial Lending" survey conducted jointly by IBM Global Services and CapitalStream. He will discuss the emerging Best Practices for Business and Commercial Lending. Additionally, he will provide results of representative banks that have implemented STP and workflow automation solutions.


WHO:
Recommended attendees include manager, senior manager and executive level personnel involved in commercial lending and business lending operations within commercial lending groups. The most applicable functional areas are sales & relationship management, credit, operations and documentation.

Additionally, this webinar is ideal for managers, senior managers and executive IT professionals and business analysts that support commercial and business lending at mid-size to large banks and financial institutions.

WHEN:
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time

WHERE:
For full details and free admission this webinar, register at: CapitalStream

About CapitalStream
Established in 1995, CapitalStream provides software and consulting services that enable commercial banks and finance companies to collaborate, integrate and operate more effectively across their front office operations. CapitalStream solutions streamline data gathering, deal structuring, credit analysis, document generation, booking, account monitoring and ongoing risk management to more effectively originate transactions and manage commercial relationships.

CapitalStream transforms the paper-based operations of mid-market, small business, equipment leasing and commercial real estate groups by reducing costs, risk and processing times to grow their portfolios without increasing headcount. For more information, please visit us at CapitalStream