Merger Conversions: MMBC Keeps it Smooth By Staying Central: A single vendor relationship helps...

Merchants & Manufacturers Bancorp. has a busy docket over the next few months: convert a handful of acquired banks, and do the job thoroughly enough to keep customers from becoming disenfranchised and fast enough to be ready for more conversions if the opportunity arises.

One of the key pillars in its strategy is drawing on the larger trend in financial services toward establishing relationships with a single technology vendor for IT services across the enterprise-or at least forging broader relationships with fewer vendors.

MMBC believes the best strategy fo