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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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