The biggest splashes came when the lender took the wraps off ofits Bid.com and Celeris services. The first, according to onecompany insider, is geared to bring commercial finance projectsonline. The second, a product of the Fleet Mortgage division, isdesigned to "help financial advisors originate mortgages and tosupply other financial services as appropriate." The Celerisoperation is based in Columbia, SC.

"In the first quarter of this year," the spokesperson tellsGlobeSt.com, "we underwent a corporate-wide planning process inwhich every business line was evaluated for its E-preparedness.Included in the questions we asked were: when would the Internetreach absorption, and what point were we at then. We asked if eachbusiness line thought of itself as E-enabled and how virtualcompetition could challenge the success of our business."

The products rolling out this year are a direct result of thatinitiative, the spokesperson notes, and there are more to come,although the details get sketchy here. "There are some products inthe works, but nothing we can announce now," she says. "Thestrategy is to enhance what we currently offer on the Internet bybuilding products in house or aligning ourselves with leaders inthe industry who can develop products for us."