Looking to the Next 90 Years of Bankingo AimBank employees feel they have a legacy

to live up to when representing a financial institution that has been chartered since 1925? “Most definitely,” says Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Jeremy Ferrell. “Employees want to make certain we are providing the best there is to offer in community banking for the next 90 years.” What has been the key to AimBank’s near century of success, “Developing customer relationships through superior service.”

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J.T. Lee and Don Bell, bankers from Clovis, N.M., purchased controlling interest in AimBank in the summer of 1945, and their families would manage the bank for the next 58 years. The bank was converted to a Texas-chartered bank in 2003. Ownership is now vested in AIMBancshares, a bank holding company owned by a group of individuals from Hockley, Lamb and Lubbock Counties. With seven locations in Levelland, Littlefield, Lubbock, Odessa and Wolfforth, Aim Bank has $250 million in assets.

Since 2003, AimBank has had a business

relationship with eBank Systems, a Lubbock, Texas-based solutions provider specializing in delivering complete turnkey solutions for community banks. “Their reputation for providing their bank customers top notch products and services” Ferrell says, is what inspired AimBank to begin doing business with the solutions provider. On May 13, 2011, TriNovus announced it would acquire eBank Systems, founded by Dave Boren in 1997. TriNovus CEO David Brasfield praised the technology platform and support staff eBank Systems offers.

Trinisys, the eBank Systems core processing application, is built on the same IBM

iSeries eServer line of hardware installed in more than 16,000 banks worldwide. By presenting all customer information in an interface reminiscent of a well organized file folder, Trinisys reduces both the drill down to search for needed information and the number of screens to navigate, saving clients valuable time. The variety of information contained in each account includes related accounts, ACH history, PDF statements, check images and account maintenance. Trinisys can help clients save thousands of dollars over the life of a core processing contract by eliminating excessive keystrokes across organizations. eBank Systems also helps clients

reduce hardware maintenance costs and overhead by replacing legacy systems with the latest technology.

The fully integrated, fully featured Trinisys eTeller platform streamlines all teller job functions. The platform helps banks stay compliant with CTR and SAR reporting, keep track of savings bond redemptions and interface in real time with Trinisys to help prevent losses. An optional interface with the Diebold Teller Cash Automatic Solution helps ensure cash drawers are balanced, makes teller traffic faster, eliminates human error and gives tellers more time to interact with their customers.

Fully integrated with eTeller, Trinisys Check Writer streamlines all check writing activities. After choosing the graphics and wording on its fully customizable forms, you can modify them at any time. Check Writer can automate signatures with user permission. Users can set amount thresholds allowing tellers to write checks up to a certain amount but requiring supervisor signatures for checks exceeding that amount. Amount reconciliations can be performed and complete

reconciliation reports can be printed with Check Writer. Historical data on checks can be archived, reviewed and queried. All necessary information for Monetary Instrument Log reporting can be automated, allowing you to stay compliant with BSA. Due to Check Writer’s integration with Trinisys Accounts Payable, all checks can be automatically imported.

Accounts Payable allows you to perform a number of functions, such as maintaining an unlimited number of vendors, paying vendors by check or ACH, sending e-mails to vendors when you render payment, managing an unlimited number invoices and creating an unlimited number of breakouts per invoice. Paid invoices are automatically interfaced to the General Ledger. Manual searches, utilizing spreadsheets and paper logs are unnecessary due to a database of all vendor related activities.

After nearly a decade, AimBank’s business relationship with eBank Systems continues because “they have shown the ability to grow with us without a reduction in service,” Ferrell says. “We see each other as partners and not just a customer/client relationship. They have been an integral part of our successful growth, allowing us to be a source of strength to our customers, shareholders, employees and communities. They are always providing us tools and mechanisms to become more efficient and more profitable. We are extremely excited to continue the partnership we began 8 years ago with eBank Systems.”

Asked to name eBank Systems’ most important quality, Ferrell says, “Not only do they understand software, but they understand community banking.” Ferrell knows what to expect every time he communicates with eBank Systems: “They strive to exceed our expectations with superior service. If you want more than just a software provider when it comes to choosing who will perform your core items and other bank processing, then you must give eBank a look.”