Disbursements & Payments
Simplify Your Payments
Our secure payment services help you pay taxes, disburse funds and streamline purchasing with your financial systems.
Automated Clearing House (ACH)
Make or collect payments to anyone within the U.S. at anytime and anywhere with our ACH service. Our service provides you customized options to pay vendors, distribute payroll, initiate tax payments, and collect dues and payments with ease and security. ACH optimizes your resources by transforming traditional payments via check issuance and facilitates expedited collection of payments. Our streamlined ACH service is another method to help keep processing simple, manage risk, and reduce costs.
Additional Benefits of Using ACH
- Optimize your cash flow, knowing the exact settlement date of your payments
- Expedite and automate the collection of your receivables
- Make payments faster than issuing and mailing a check
- Use exact settlement date to negotiate payment terms with vendors
- Reduce the risk of fraud by eliminating check issuance
- Send credits domestically
Standard Service Includes:
- Batch history for 180 days
- Layered security control options
- Use of bank-issued security tokens to authorize transaction release
- Future-date transactions up to one month
- Email alerts for approval release on outgoing ACH transactions
- View and print all pending and sent ACH batch entries
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Wire Transfers
With businessBridge® Premier, domestic and international trading partners' information can be saved into simple streamlined templates that include bank routing and swift number validation. Utilizing a secure one-time passcode, your wire transaction can be sent securely the same day or scheduled in advance. This service is another method to help keep processing simple, manage risk, and reduce costs.
Standard Service Includes:
- Domestic and international USD one-time application or recurring
- Reusable templates to streamline and secure processing instructions
- Layered security control, user permissions, and approval options
- Use of secure one-time passcodes to authorize payment release
- Future-dated wires up to 30 calendar days
- Detailed wire transaction history for up to 180 days
- Email alerts for approval release on outgoing wire transfers
- Email confirmation with payment reference for outgoing wire transfers
Wire Reporting
Receive detailed wire information on all your incoming and outgoing wire transactions. Information includes payment processing confirmations and additional payment details to help reconcile your accounts.
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Automated Clearing House (ACH)
businessBridge® Premier Online Banking
Bill Payment
Bill Pay is quicker and easier than writing and mailing paper checks, with saved payee information, scheduling of single or recurring payments, and options to set up multiple levels of controls for your users. Business Bill Pay is a fast and convenient way to stay on top of your finances, while keeping it simple, organized, and secure.
Standard Service Includes:
- Payment capability to individuals and vendors of all sizes
- Saved payee information for future payments
- One-time, recurring, and scheduled future-dated payments
- Add invoice remittance information
- Multi-user access and approval capabilities
- Subscribe to eBills
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Corporate Card
Our One Card1,2 solution brings together the management of travel expenses and purchasing of business essentials into a single streamlined process to improve overall cash management. This service is designed to provide flexibility and expense management with the capability to define spending limits and integrate transaction data seamlessly with your financial systems. In addition, it will help minimize expenses on the tasks associated with the manual processing of requisitions, data entry, filing, and issuance of reimbursement payments. The One Card service is a comprehensive solution to keep processing simple, mitigate risk, and reduce costs.
Key Features and Rewards
- Ability to define spending limits per employee
- Online access to cardholder reports, electronic statements, and accounting information
- Reduce paperwork including requisitions, purchase orders, invoices, and checks
- Automate payment and reconciliation processes
- Simplify administrative tasks
- Manage purchasing and business travel expenses
- Centralize payment and corporate liability
- Monitor compliance with spending policies and negotiate volume thresholds
- Integrate transactions data seamlessly with your financial systems
- Tailor the program to meet the unique needs of your organization
1 The creditor and issuer of the East West Bank One Card is Elan Financial Services, pursuant to a license from Visa® U.S.A.
2 Elan may change APRs, fees and other account terms in the future based on your experience with Elan Financial Services and its affiliates as provided under the cardmember agreement and applicable law.
Integrated Payables
Using the existing information in your accounts payable system, you can create one file for all of your payments. You can also customize the instructions for each payment, such as payment date, method, and approval process. Once the file is imported to Integrated Payables3, we will take care of the rest and keep you updated on payment status.
Additional Benefits of Using Integrated Payables
- Reduces manual and double data entry
- Help increase cash flow and visibility on your payments
- Help prevent fraud across your financial supply chain
- Reduce your carbon footprint with electronic payments
Key Features
- Convenient payment file upload through SFTP or Web Import
- System compatible with multiple file formats
- Standard payment Industry file formats
- Customized file (.csv, flat file or XML)
- Optional dual-approval process for extra security
- Customized access for your staff
- Email, text or sFTP alerts on payment status and user permission changes4
3 Fees for each payment type may apply.
4 Available alert methods depending on payment types and submission channels.
Controlled Disbursement
Enabling You to Optimize Your Cash Flow
Our disbursementBridge® service will provide you the exact amount your account requires to fund the checks submitted for payment that day, enabling you to make more informed investment and borrowing decisions to maximize earnings and minimize borrowing costs.
Using our controlled disbursement service will help eliminate check clearing uncertainty by allowing you to fund the account before items clear your account. Receive daily notification of your incoming checks to better determine your daily cash position. This reduces the need to have reserved funds idle in your account waiting for checks to clear, enabling you to optimize your cash flow. With controlled disbursement services, take control of your funds and make more informed decisions to maximize earnings and minimize borrowing costs.
Service Includes:
- Daily check presentment information
- Early morning notification and second/final presentment by 7:00am PT
- Automated funding
- Stop payment capabilities
- Positive Pay or Positive Pay with Payee match
- Check issuance
- Account reconciliation
- Transmission services
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