Peru's Largest Bank Selects Fidelity National Information Services' TouchPoint(R) Delivery Channel Suite

Peru's Largest Bank Selects Fidelity National Information Services' TouchPoint(R) Delivery Channel Suite

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Aug. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Fidelity National Information Services, Inc., (NYSE: FIS) a worldwide leader in processing and technology solutions for financial institutions, announced today that Banco de Credito del Peru (BCP) has signed an agreement to install the FIS TouchPoint(R) channel product suite to support BCP's network of branch banking operations.

TouchPoint is a suite of customer interaction solutions that helps financial institutions enhance sales and service performance through all delivery channels, including the branch, contact center, Internet and relationship managers. BCP has selected TouchPoint Teller, TouchPoint Sales and Service, and TouchPoint Deposit Account Opening. BCP will also utilize Xpress Enterprise Services, FIS' scalable, high-performance architecture that provides real-time connections to back-end, line-of-business systems.

BCP, the largest bank in Peru, with assets exceeding $8 billion, and FIS have been strategic partners since 1995. Based in Lima, the bank has 237 branch offices throughout Peru.

"Part of our strategic offering to our customers is stability, and the inherent stability in FIS' systems gives us a means for providing services and functions to our customers that make us stand out among our competitors in the market," said Ricardo Bustamante, group chief information officer for Credicorp. "FIS embodies the values that are the cornerstones of our IT strategies: financial stability, industry leadership, local support and best- of-breed systems. We are connecting every service and every application that we develop to the systems FIS has provided us."

"Our partnership with BCP is a testament to the level of commitment FIS shares with its clients," said Prakash Jalihal, the FIS managing director for Latin America and Caribbean operations. "We work as a business partner, growing with an organization and focusing on a bank's financial systems while the bank focuses on banking."

About Banco de Credito

Banco de Credito-Peru has been in business since 1889. It operated under the name of Banco Italiano until 1942, when it changed the trade name to Banco de Credito del Peru. This bank is the largest Peruvian financial institution and is the leading provider of financial services in the country. As of 2006, it had 237 branch offices in the country, and sales exceeded $3.3 billion. It also has a subsidiary in Bolivia (Banco de Credito de Bolivia) and branches in Miami, the United States and Panama. The bank is the main asset of the financial institution Credicorp, funded in The Bermudas on 1995.

The Bank's activities are divided among several business units. The units are: Wholesale Banking, Retail Banking, Capital Markets and Exchanges, Treasury and Investments. The bank is able to simultaneously specialize in each business unit via its corporate and retail divisions. It also has several subsidiaries to operate as a stock exchange agent and establish and administer mutual funds.

About Fidelity National Information Services

Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (NYSE: FIS) is a leading provider of core processing for financial institutions; card issuer and transaction processing services; mortgage loan processing and mortgage-related information products; and outsourcing services to financial institutions, retailers, mortgage lenders and real estate professionals. FIS has processing and technology partnerships with 35 of the top 50 global banks, including nine of the top 10. Approximately 50 percent of all U.S. residential mortgages are processed using FIS software. FIS is a member of Standard and Poor's (S&P) 500(R) Index and has been ranked the number one banking service provider in the world by American Banker and the research firm Financial Insights and the number two overall financial technology provider in the annual FinTech 100 rankings. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Fla., FIS maintains a strong global presence, serving more than 7,800 financial institutions in more than 60 countries worldwide. For more information on Fidelity National Information Services, please visit http://www.fidelityinfoservices.com/.

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