CEY Certegy

Certegy Partners With Parsam Technologies to Enhance E-Banking Services ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., July 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Certegy Inc. (NYSE:CEY), the nation's leading provider of comprehensive credit card processing services to credit unions and community banks, announced today that it has partnered with Parsam Technologies, provider of the uMonitor financial services platform, to broaden its suite of e-payment and e-banking services. Parsam's uMonitor technologies automate financial service functions, including several e-banking applications. The combined technologies will enhance Certegy's e-payments and e-banking services by increasing the functionality and capabilities available to financial institutions and their end users. Through the new relationship, Certegy will offer online bill presentment, new account services and loan services to its clients through a private-label arrangement using the Certegy brand. These new features will allow consumers to pay bills directly through the biller's website or have the bills presented online by their financial institution. The platform will also allow end users to open and fund new deposit accounts, as well as apply for loan products, all in a single session. The system is flexible and customizable to meet the unique needs of Certegy's financial institution customers, while maintaining compliance with the Patriot Act and other regulatory requirements. "We continuously strive to generate additional value for our financial institution customers by providing industry leading products and cost effective technologies to help them remain competitive," said Robert Bream, executive vice president and group executive of Certegy Card Services - North America. "The uMonitor platform provides us with additional product capability, and enhances the e-banking services available to our financial institutions and their customers." About Certegy Inc. Certegy Inc. (NYSE:CEY) provides credit and debit processing, check risk management and check cashing services, and merchant processing to over 6,500 financial institutions, 100,000 retailers and 100 million consumers worldwide. Headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida, Certegy maintains a strong global presence with operations in the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Chile, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand, Thailand and the Caribbean. As a leading payment services provider, Certegy offers a comprehensive range of transaction processing services, check risk management solutions and integrated customer support programs that facilitate the exchange of business and consumer payments. Certegy generated over $1.0 billion in revenue in 2004. For more information on Certegy, please visit http://www.certegy.com/. Forward-Looking Statement The statements in this release include forward-looking statements that are based on current expectations, assumptions, estimates, and projections about Certegy and our industry. They are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks and uncertainties, many of which are outside of Certegy's control, that may cause actual results to differ significantly from what is expressed in those statements. Factors that could, either individually or in the aggregate, affect our performance are described in detail in the section entitled "Certain Factors Affecting Forward-Looking Statements" in our 2004 Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 11, 2005, with the SEC. DATASOURCE: Certegy Inc. CONTACT: Mary Waggoner, SVP - Investor Relations of Certegy Inc., +1-678-867-8004 Web site: http://www.certegy.com/

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