Experian wins TSYS Debt Management business

Costa Mesa, Calif. and Atlanta, Ga. ? Experian®, a global information solutions company, is pleased to announce that TSYS Debt Management, a wholly owned subsidiary of TSYSâ and leading provider of comprehensive financial recovery solutions to creditors, will utilize its Portfolio Management Package for Post Charge-off Accounts.

Portfolio Management Package for Post Charge-off Accounts is a one-stop service for financial institutions and collection agencies requiring an account management solution to better prioritize their post charge-off inventories. The tool enables users to dramatically decrease operating costs and focus collection efforts on accounts most likely to yield results.

?Portfolio Management Package for Post Charge-off Accounts permits enhanced segmentation, which helps to control expenditures, improve efficiency and ultimately achieve better results for our clients,? stated Charles F. Kinney, president and CEO, TSYS Debt Management. ?Identifying the appropriate collection process ? such as skip tracing through our TeleskipTM product and legal action through our National Attorney Network? can be reserved for the proper accounts where the likelihood of success is highest. Internal benchmarking indicated that this product offering from Experian seamlessly integrates our comprehensive recovery services for creditors. This, coupled with Experian?s expertise and customer focus, gives us confidence in the initiative?s success.?

Since the Portfolio Management Package is hosted at Experian, it allows customers to gain the many advantages of Probe SM, Experian?s strategy management solution, as compared to an in-house software installation. In addition, Portfolio Management Package for Post Charge-off Accounts takes advantage of Experian?s specialized credit bureau scores including the Experian Recovery ScoreSM and collections focused data attributes.

Clients utilize the skip tracing information provided by MetroNet®, one of the nation?s most precise and up-to-date consumer skip locating services. Additionally, Experian consultants are available to assist with implementation, strategy development, and review of Experian-generated reports.

?Not only does this package translate into significant cost savings over time, but the initial investment is minimal,? said Steve Darsie, vice president of Experian?s Decision Solutions group. ?We are enthusiastic about this service and the opportunity to expand our relationship with TSYS.?

About TSYS Debt Management
With the most sophisticated collections applications in the industry, TSYS Debt Management (TDM) ? a wholly owned subsidiary of TSYS (NYSE: TSS), a global provider of electronic payment services ? offers clients low-cost, high-value early out and recovery collections, bankruptcy and probate process management, legal account management (NAN), performance and benchmarking agency management software (VuPointTM) and skip tracing services (TeleskipTM). Located in Atlanta, Ga., TDM handles any or all portions of a client?s collections business.

TDM provides fully integrated technology offerings like the National Attorney Network (NAN), its legal management unit, which is the nation?s largest legal collections network, serving leading retailers, banks, finance companies and debt purchasers. NAN facilitates and manages the placement of legal collection cases at the account level from the creditor to the collection law firm.

For more information, visit the company?s Web site at www.tsys.com/tdm or call 800.922.7322.

About Experian
Experian® enables organizations to find the best prospects and make fast, informed decisions to mprove and personalize relationships with their customers. It does this by combining sophisticated and intelligent decision-making software and systems with some of the world?s most comprehensive databases of information on consumers, businesses, motor vehicles and property. Through multi-channel delivery of its Web-based products and services, Experian enables its clients to conduct secure and profitable e-business and develop state-of-the-art Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems for communicating and building relationships with customers. Experian is a subsidiary of GUS plc and has headquarters in Nottingham, UK, and Costa Mesa, Calif. Its 12,000 people support clients in more than 60 countries. Annual sales are approximately $1.5 billion. For more information, visit the company’s Web site at www.experian.com.