TSYS Signs Payment Processing Agreement with Standard Bank

TSYS to provide card- issuing and merchant acquiring services for one of South Africa’s leading banks

Columbus, Ga., and London, 20 March, 2008 — TSYS today announced the completion of a contract to provide Standard Bank of South Africa card issuing, merchant acquiring and related payment services for the multiple countries across Africa in which they operate.

Standard Bank is a South African-based financial services company with a global presence, operating from 18 countries in Africa and 20 on other continents, including the key financial centres of Europe, the Americas and Asia.

“TSYS were selected after an extensive evaluation of potential processors,” said Barry Fergus, Card Director Africa, Standard Bank. “We feel that TSYS’ technologies provide the versatility and scalability Standard Bank needed to continue to grow our presence in Africa.”

“Standard Bank’s decision to partner with TSYS is a tremendous opportunity for us and represents an important ingredient of our ongoing growth plans,” said Kelley Knutson, group executive, TSYS Global Services. “We have built our platforms, services, and organisation to provide clients like Standard Bank with a practical global solution for their cardholders and merchants.”

Standard Bank’s issuer cardholder accounts and acquirer merchant accounts will be processed on TSYS’ global single source, multi-client processing solution supporting multiple countries, languages, currencies, functional requirements, regional infrastructure and regulations.

About Standard Bank of Africa
Standard Bank Group (www.standardbank.co.za) is one of the big four full–service South African banks. The group operates in a range of banking and related financial services. The group has a wide representation which spans 18 African countries and 20 countries outside of Africa with an emerging markets focus. Standard Bank has 712 branches in South Africa and 239 in the rest of Africa. Standard Bank Group is listed on the JSE Limited, share code SBK and has a December year end.

About TSYS
TSYS (NYSE: TSS) is one of the world’s largest companies for outsourced payment services, offering a broad range of issuer- and acquirer-processing technologies that support consumer-finance, credit, debit, healthcare, loyalty and prepaid services for financial institutions and retail companies in the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions. For more information, contact news@tsys.com or log on to www.tsys.com.

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TSYS Media Relations
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TSYS Investor Relations
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