Avalon Partners With The Bankers Bank to Implement The ImagePoint Suite of Check21 Solutions

Business Wire, Feb 8, 2007

ATLANTA -- Avalon International, Inc. is proud to announce its partnership with The Bankers Bank in Oklahoma City to offer all of The Bankers Bank constituents Avalon's ImagePoint product suite. Included under this exclusive partnership agreement are the ImagePoint product modules; Image Exchange, Merchant Capture and Branch Capture.

Mark Keeling, Executive Vice President of The Bankers Bank states, "The Avalon products offer The Bankers Bank the unique ability to present our constituent banks and their merchant clients a state-of-the-art architecture for RDC regardless of where the image is captured. ImagePoint's single user interface and advanced management tools allow ease of implementation and a significantly lower cost of entry for banks offering this functionality." Keeling continues, "this partnership will allow The Bankers Bank to offer an image exchange product that is structured to receive a single image file, exchange images with participating customers banks and then sending the remaining images to the best exchange solution. This process will minimize replacement documents and capitalize on the cost savings of exchanging images." The Bankers Bank reports their Oklahoma customer base of over 240, giving them optimal potential to exchange local checks and pass on tremendous savings.

Stewart Peretz, Executive Vice President of Avalon International goes on to say, "The Bankers Bank joins Fiserv as a premier implementer of Release 3.0 of the ImagePoint product suite. Avalon will be supporting The Bankers Bank in their roll out of IP Branch and IP Merchant to The Bankers Bank's constituents and helping them implement IP Exchange at their central site."

ABOUT AVALON INTERNATIONAL INC.

Founded in 1991, Avalon International is a fast-growing provider of software products for the Check21 marketplace. Combining intellectual capital with precision thinking and relentless execution skills, the company delivers unique, powerful and reliable software solutions. Its flagship product ImagePoint, built for Check21 from the ground up using Microsoft .NET, Web Services and uses SQL Server and Oracle. Avalon combines today's technology and the latest in regulatory advances in banking to deliver a set of powerful solutions to its customers. The company is headquartered in Norcross, GA. For more information, call 888-21-AVALON or visit its Web site at www.avalonintl.com

ABOUT THE BANKERS BANK

The Bankers Bank exists for one reason: to provide the highest quality of correspondent services to community banks. The unique ownership of 70 community banks with no majority shareholders gives them the ability to offer these services at a reasonable cost and oversee the high level of service in each area.

The Bankers Bank was chartered in August 1985 and opened for business on May 28, 1986. The company is headquartered in Oklahoma City, Ok. For more information, call (800) 522-9220 or visit its Web site at www.thebankersbank.com