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BillMatrix Presents Workshop
on Billing and Payment
at EUCI’s Billing for Utilities Conference
DALLAS, Texas – March 13, 2006 – BillMatrix Corporation,
a provider of outsourced telephone and Internet-based payment
services and a subsidiary of Fiserv, Inc. (Nasdaq: FISV),
is providing its industry-recognized expertise to the attendees
of the Electric Utility Consultants Inc. (EUCI) Billing for
Utilities conference in Dallas today. BillMatrix Senior Vice
President Jerry Portocalis is leading a three-hour workshop
on optimizing billing and payment channels. Covering paper
and electronic bill presentment, the rapidly expanding list
of payment sources, and how to strike a cost effective and
efficient balance for optimal customer satisfaction, Portocalis’
workshop is designed to be an engaging and interactive session.
Leading utility providers from around the nation looking for
a way to address payment option gaps without investing large
sums of money or precious IT resources will be in attendance.
Representatives from two BillMatrix clients, CPS Energy and
CenterPoint Energy, are also presenting on subjects of expanding
electronic payment methods, electronic invoicing and on-line
billing programs at their utilities.
Portocalis has been a featured speaker at many industry events,
including NACHA Payments for the last three years, and both
the New York Cash Exchange and the Society for Consumer Affairs
Professionals Annual Meeting in 2005. He also serves as the
Marketing and Public Relations chair on the steering committee
for NACHA’s Council for Electronic Billing and Payments.
EUCI has presented the Billing for Utilities conference for
the last five years, which is dedicated to bringing electricity,
gas and water utility billing leaders and subject matter experts
together to learn how to gain efficiencies in the billing
and payment processes.
About BillMatrix Corporation
Founded in 1994, BillMatrix Corp. provides outsourced alternatives
to traditional payment methods using the latest automated
technologies. BillMatrix, which became part of Fiserv in August
2005, works with more than 120 companies to supplement paper-based
methods of remittance with convenient, efficient and cost-effective
electronic payments. Consumers, customer service representatives
and other third-party agents are able to make payments via
hosted Internet and telephone systems using credit cards,
ATM debit cards and electronic check payment options. For
more information, visit www.BillMatrix.com.
Fiserv, Inc. is a provider of information management systems
and services to the financial and health benefits industries,
including transaction processing, outsourcing, business process
outsourcing and software and systems solutions. The company
serves more than 17,000 clients worldwide, including banks,
credit unions, financial planners/investment advisers, insurance
companies and agents, self-insured employers, lenders and
savings institutions. Headquartered in Brookfield, Wis., Fiserv
reported $3.7 billion in processing and services revenues
for 2005. Fiserv was ranked the largest provider of information
technology services to the U.S. financial services industry
in the 2004 and 2005 FinTech 100 survey by the American Banker
newspaper and the Financial Insights research firm. Fiserv
can be found on the Internet at www.fiserv.com.
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