Panini Showcasing Small Business Initiative at AFP Annual Conference

Dayton, Ohio (October 16, 2007) - Panini will showcase their innovative small business initiative at the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) Annual Conference next week (October 21-24) in Boston. The Small Business Initiative introduces the advantages and efficiencies of remote deposit capture (RDC) to the largest segment of the U.S. business market, and many of Panini’s customers and partners are currently taking advantage of this remarkable combination of products and services.

“Our extensive research solidified our understanding of small business price/performance requirements for new financial products and services,” adds Doug Roberts, President, Panini North America. “Panini’s market-leading single document check scanner is now priced to accommodate the needs of this growing market.”

In addition to the Panini My Vision X SD, Panini has developed a new customer services strategy to expand and create a wide range of service offerings specific to the small business market including help desk, maintenance, training, fulfillment and project management. “Panini is dedicated to helping small businesses leverage our services to maximize RDC return on investment,” adds Roberts.

Panini has leveraged their partner-centric sales channel program called Partner Plus to launch the small business initiative. The program maximizes financial returns for Panini’s channel partners and provides them with a variety of valuable sales tools and incentives.

Materials supporting Panini’s Small Business Initiative have been packaged in CD format and will be available at the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) Annual Conference, October 21-24 in booth number 1417. Additionally, Panini will provide banks and corporations with financial evaluation models for RDC and Merchant Back Office Conversion (BOC).

Panini is the distributed capture market leader with dominant market share, demonstrated best quality, and a rich history of technical innovation. As the market leader, Panini offers customers the lowest cost of ownership, best reliability, and broadest portfolio of industry partnerships. Panini’s scalable check capture platform addresses the complete range of distributed check capture applications.

About Panini
Founded in Turin, Italy, Panini has enabled clients to capitalize on shifts in the global payments processing market for more than sixty years. Panini has a rich history of technology innovation, leveraging the company’s expertise in research & development. Panini’s market leading solutions are based on state-of-the-art engineering resources and ISO-9000 quality certified production. Panini North America, a wholly owned subsidiary, offers check capture solutions that enable customers to fully realize the advantages and efficiencies available with the digital transformation of the paper check. Panini’s scalable check capture solutions address the complete range of distributed check processing opportunities including teller capture, back-counter capture, corporate capture, cash vault, microfilm replacement and remittance processing. For more information please call 937.291.2195 or visit www.panini.com.