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Carreker
Corporation Press Release - April
16, 2002
CARREKER
AND METAVANTE ANNOUNCE FRAUD
PROTECTION AGREEMENT
COMMUNITY AND REGIONAL BANKS TO ENJOY THE SAME
FRAUD PROTECTION AS LARGE BANKS
(DALLAS, April 16, 2002) — Carreker
Corporation (NASDAQ: CANI) and
Metavante Corporation today announced
an agreement under which Carreker
will license its FraudLink Deposit™ application
to Metavante, who will offer the
fraud protection system as an additional
processing service to its financial
institution clients, including
many community banks.
Metavante, the financial technology
subsidiary of Marshall & Ilsley
Corporation (NYSE: MI), is a leading
provider of outsourced processing
services for banks. Carreker’s
FraudLink Deposit helps banks identify
potentially fraudulent deposit transactions.
It is one of a broad suite of Carreker
risk management solutions used by
18 of the largest 20 banks in North
America, and 70 of the next 100,
as well as financial institutions
in the United Kingdom and Australia.
These institutions typically realize
payback on FraudLink within three
to nine months.
According to Tom Vleisides, Carreker’s
senior vice president, Alliance Management, “Once
again, we are expanding our relationship
with Metavante to bring another proven
solution to community and regional
banks. Metavante’s business
model lowers the entrance cost of
such a system, spreading it out as
a monthly service fee. They already
provide ReserveLink™, our reserve
reduction solution and our FraudLink
On-Us solution, which detects fraudulent
checks which are drawn on a bank
customer’s account.”
Jamie Geschke, senior vice president
and general manager, Metavante Financial
Technology Services, points out that
for most community banks, fraud losses
have become a growing expense burden.
A 2000 survey of check fraud conducted
by the American Bankers Association
(ABA) found that commercial banks
experienced almost a half million
fraud cases and that financial losses
from fraud were suffered by 69 percent
of banks, including 67 percent of
community banks, which was an increase
from 49 percent in 1998. In October
2001, the ABA endorsed Carreker fraud
prevention products for its members.
“As larger financial institutions
continue to increase their protection
against check fraud losses through
advanced technology like Carreker’s
suite, fraud perpetrators are instead
targeting smaller banks that have
not implemented a fraud detection
defense system,” Geschke said. “Now,
institutions of any size have an
economically feasible solution to
combat check fraud.”
Carreker’s full line of risk
management solutions includes several
check fraud detection products under
the FraudLink name including FraudLink
On-Us, Deposit, Kite, and Positive
Pay. FraudLink Positive Pay, which
offers real-time fraud detection
for Positive Pay items presented
at the branch, will be enhanced with
the incorporation of the Payee Name
Verification (PNV) module which validates
the payee name on corporate checks,
adding another level of validation
and risk prevention for Positive
Pay clients. Carreker recently introduced
Carreker’s On-line Risk Expert
(FraudLink CORE), which aggregates
data from Carreker’s risk products
along with data from a bank’s
existing fraud systems to a single
workstation and prioritizes and scores
suspects for effective fraud decisioning.
About Metavante
With more than 3,500 clients, including
the largest 20 banks in the United
States, Metavante Corporation is
a leading financial services enabler
delivering virtually all of the technology
that an organization needs to offer
financial services. Metavante offers
financial technology solutions that
drive customer relationship management,
electronic banking, electronic funds
transfer and card solutions, electronic
presentment and payment, financial
technology services, private label
banking, and wealth management. Headquartered
in Milwaukee, Wis., Metavante is
wholly owned by Marshall & Ilsley
Corporation (NYSE: MI). For more
information see www.metavante.com.
About Carreker Corporation:
Carreker Corporation improves earnings
for financial institutions around
the world. Our integrated consulting
and software solutions are designed
to increase our clients’ revenues
and reduce their expenses, while
improving security and increasing
the value of their customer relationships.
Carreker provides products and services
to more than 200 clients in the United
States, Canada, the United Kingdom,
Ireland, Australia, and South Africa.
Clients include of the full range
of community, regional and large
banks, among them more than 75 of
the largest 100 banks in the United
States. Headquartered in Dallas,
Texas since 1978, Carreker Corporation
also has offices located around the
world including London, Toronto,
and Sydney. For more information,
visit www.carreker.com or phone Hal
Denton at 972-340-2537.
Forward Looking Statement -
This document contains forward-looking
statements based on current expectations
that are inherently subject to
risks and uncertainties. The words "estimate," "project," "intend," "expect," "believe," "plan" and
similar expressions are intended
to identify forward-looking statements.
The Company's actual results could
differ materially from those currently
anticipated due to a number of
factors, including, but not limited
to, risks associated with the Company’s
acquisition of Check Solutions,
changes in the banking industry’s
demand for the Company’s
solutions, significant customer
concentration and the potential
loss of a significant customer,
variations in operating results,
reduction in revenues due to pricing
arrangements, the infrequent use
of long-term contracts with customers,
the focus of the Company's solutions
on e-finance opportunities and
the chance that they will not be
accepted in the marketplace, risks
associated with rapid growth in
the Company’s business, the
inability to attract and retain
key personnel, existence of defects
or errors in the Company’s
software, ability to develop new
technologies and services, ability
to meet the changing needs of customers,
dependence on third-party Internet
providers and the Internet, intense
competition, risks associated with
strategic alliances and acquisitions,
inability to protect the Company's
proprietary rights, infringement
and other claims and related expenses,
reliance on third-party licenses,
volatility in the Company's stock
price, exposure to risks associated
with international operations,
reliance on independent contractors,
governmental regulation and legal
uncertainties and anti-takeover
provisions in the Company's charter
documents and under applicable
law. These and other factors are
set forth in the Company's annual
report on Form 10-K filed on April
30, 2001 and in other reports and
documents filed by the Company
with the Securities and Exchange
Commission from time to time.
Carreker
Contacts:
Hal
Denton, Vice President, Marketing
972 340-2537 PH
972 233-7831 FX
Email: hdenton@carreker.com
Terry
Gage, Executive Vice President,
CFO
972 371-1454 PH
972 458-2567 FX
Email: tgage@carreker.com
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