Consumers Activate Electronic Bills at Significantly Higher Rate with Latest Version of Award-Winning CheckFree Web RXPSM

Brookfield, Wis., February 5, 2009 (AllPayNews.com) — Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading provider of information technology services to the financial industry, announced today that its financial institution customers have significantly increased their e-bill (electronic bill) activation rates in the six months since implementing the most recent upgrade of Fiserv’s CheckFree Web RXPSM. E-bills are online versions of paper bills that are securely delivered directly to a financial institution’s or billing company’s website.

As a result of enhancements delivered with the CheckFree Web RXP Feature Pack 1 release, consumer e-bill activations jumped by 145 percent in the first week following the delivery of the feature pack to Fiserv’s bank and credit union customers, according to an analysis of transactions from five of Fiserv’s major financial institution customers. As of December 31, 2008, the average e-bill activation rate had stabilized at a 30 percent higher level than the rate recorded in the two months prior to the delivery of Feature Pack 1.

In addition, the volume of e-bill activation requests per consumer jumped by 34 percent in the week immediately after the Feature Pack 1 release, meaning more consumers signed up for multiple e-bills. By December 31, 2008, the volume of e-bill activation requests per consumer had stabilized at a10 percent higher level than the pre-Feature Pack 1 rate. “These positive results demonstrate that CheckFree Web RXP’s user-friendly interface is driving more consumers to adopt e-bills and online bill payment as faster, more convenient ways to manage their monthly financial obligations. Our research has repeatedly shown that consumers who receive e-bills and pay their bills online are more loyal and valuable to our financial institution customers,” said Todd Lesher, division president, Fiserv Electronic Banking Services. “At Fiserv, we continue to optimize the online channel to enable our financial institution clients to develop deeper, more profitable relationships with their customers.”

Feature Pack 1 of CheckFree Web RXP was rolled out simultaneously to more than 2,200 financial institutions on July 20, 2008. The unique feature pack upgrade process delivers new functionality to financial institutions simultaneously, in real time, thus eliminating the need for a more traditional and time-consuming migration process to a new product version.

The latest version of Fiserv’s award-winning electronic billing and payment service incorporates user interface and functional enhancements based on extensive consumer research and usability testing. CheckFree Web RXP streamlines the e-bill enrollment process by presenting consumers with a complete list of all the secure e-bills they can sign-up to receive and view at their financial institution website. E-bill activation is also prominently promoted throughout the Rich Internet Application and on the Payment Assistant, which contains messaging and a thumbnail image that assures consumers they will access an electronic version of the same detailed bill that they now receive in the mail. CheckFree Web RXP processes more bill payments and more consumer e-bills than any other electronic billing and payment service. It earned the highest ranking of any product on the Bank Technology News Innovators 2007 list.

About Fiserv, Inc.

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a Fortune 500 company, provides information management and electronic commerce systems and services to the financial industry. Leading services include transaction processing, outsourcing, electronic bill payment and presentment, investment management solutions, business process outsourcing (BPO), software and systems solutions. Headquartered in Brookfield, Wis., the company is the leading provider of account processing solutions for U.S. banks, credit unions and thrifts with more than 6,000 clients worldwide. InformationWeek magazine selected Fiserv as the top ranked company in the Banking and Financial Services category, and chose Fiserv No.4 overall on the 2008 InformationWeek 500. Fiserv was ranked the largest provider of information technology services to the financial services industry worldwide in the 2008, 2006, 2005 and 2004 FinTech 100 surveys. For more information, please visit www.fiserv.com.

For more information contact:
Lori Stafford-Thomas
Assistant Vice President Corp. External Comm.
Fiserv, Inc.
262-879-5130
lori.stafford@fiserv.com

Additional Fiserv Contact
Steve Shaw
Fiserv Internet Banking and Electronic Payments Group
Director, Strategic Marketing
503-629-3770
steve.shaw@fiserv.com