FIRST BANK CHOOSES THE EDCOMM GROUP TO DELIVER PLATFORM AND COMPLIANCE TRAINING (NEW YORK, NY) -JULY 4, 2005

First Bank has chosen The Edcomm Group to deliver Achieving Platform Excellence and Focus on Compliance for their training needs.

Achieving Platform Excellence is a comprehensive eLearning training program that teaches the knowledge, skills, and attitude that make platform personnel successful. The program teaches participants the tools necessary for careers in banking and provides them with both the skill, and professionalism necessary to excel. Focus on Compliance, a computer-based, distance learning program, can be delivered via Internet, Intranet or CD-ROM. The program teaches banking compliance using easy-to-understand language in an interactive, self-paced format. Participants learn from their own perspective, with a curriculum customized to their position. For more information about programs like these, or to find out how The Edcomm Group can customize any training program, log onto www.bankersacademy.com.

A 24-year-old banking institution, First Bank has 15 offices located throughout the states of Tennessee and Virginia. The bank caters to small businesses and consumers who look for the community feel of a local bank, as well as all of the services offered at a larger institution.

The Edcomm Group has had the privilege of assisting many distinguished clients with business solutions in the form of classroom instruction, print publication, video production, online documentation, interactive web systems and multimedia programs. In addition to the development of customized programs,

The Edcomm Group offers many industry specific off-the-shelf products that have proven themselves effective in organizations around the world.
The Edcomm Group is an 18-year-old multimedia education and communication consulting firm specializing in the development of creative business solutions that improve productivity, customer service and market share — providing bottom-line results. The Edcomm Group (www.edcomm.com), (www.bankersacademy.com) is headquartered in New York City with an Advanced Design Center located in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania.

For more information, please contact:

Linda Eagle
President, The Edcomm Group
1-888-4EDCOMM
linda.eagle@edcomm.com