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FIS
Fidelity National Information Services, Inc.

5/23/2013, 3:29 PM ET
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Sector: Services
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Industry: Business Services
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Country: United States

FIS is a leading global provider of banking and payments technology solutions, processing services and information-based services. We offer financial institution core processing, card issuer and transaction processing services, including the NYCE Network, a leading national electronic funds transfer (EFT) network. FIS is a member of the Standard and Poor’s (S&P) 500® Index and consistently holds a leading ranking in the annual FinTech 100 rankings.

As of December 31, 2009, FIS has more than 300 solutions serving over 14,000 financial institutions and business customers in over 100 countries spanning most segments of the financial services industry. These customers include 40 of the top 50 global banks, including nine of the top 10, as ranked by Bankersalmanac.com as of November 2009, as well as mid-tier and community banks, credit unions, commercial lenders, automotive financial institutions, healthcare providers and governments. Additionally, we provide services to numerous retailers via our check processing and guarantee services. No individual customer represents more than 5% of our revenues.

On October 1, 2009, FIS completed the acquisition of Metavante. The resulting combination of solution suites is expected to strengthen our competitive position globally, generates substantial economies of scale and provides significant cross-sell opportunities. Metavante expands the scale of FIS core processing and payment capabilities, adds comprehensive trust and wealth management services and includes the NYCE Network, which joins the Company’s existing EFT offerings. In addition, Metavante adds significant scale to our treasury and cash management offerings and provides an entry into the emerging markets of healthcare and government payments. These enhanced capabilities enable FIS to provide a selection of solutions to financial institutions across all asset sizes, and to a variety of non-financial organizations, both domestically and internationally. FIS is now well positioned in both the large and mid-tier bank segments, where the majority of IT spending occurs.

General Development of the Business

Our business operations and organizational structure result from the February 1, 2006, business combination of FIS and Certegy (the “Certegy Merger”), pursuant to which FIS was merged into a wholly-owned subsidiary of Certegy. Immediately after the Certegy Merger, the stockholders of FIS owned approximately 67.4% of the Company’s outstanding common stock. Accordingly, for accounting and financial reporting purposes, the Certegy Merger was treated as a reverse acquisition of Certegy by FIS using the purchase method of accounting. Under this accounting treatment, although Certegy was the legal entity that survived the merger, FIS was viewed as the acquirer for accounting purposes, and our financial statements and other disclosures for periods prior to the Certegy Merger treat FIS as our predecessor company. Also, as a result of the Certegy Merger, the registrant’s name changed from “Certegy Inc.” to “Fidelity National Information Services, Inc.” and our New York Stock Exchange trading symbol from “CEY” to “FIS”. We are incorporated under the laws of the State of Georgia, where Certegy was initially incorporated on March 2, 2001.

On November 9, 2006, Old FNF, then the majority stockholder of FIS (after other transactions in which it distributed all of its assets other than its ownership in FIS), merged with and into FIS (the “FNF Merger”). Upon completion of the FNF Merger, FIS became an independent publicly traded company, and Old FNF ceased to exist as an independent publicly traded company. The assets distributed by Old FNF prior to the FNF Merger included its ownership in FNT, which following the FNF Merger renamed itself Fidelity National Financial, Inc.

Our growth has been driven internally and by these additional acquisitions which also contributed important applications and services to the offerings of FIS:

•eFunds, a provider of risk management services, EFT services, prepaid/gift card processing, and global outsourcing solutions to financial services companies in the U.S. and internationally;

•Certegy, a provider of card issuer services to financial institutions and check risk management services in the U.S. and internationally;

•InterCept, Inc., a provider of outsourced and in-house core banking solutions, as well as item processing and check imaging services;

•Sanchez Computer Associates, Inc., a provider of software and outsourcing solutions to banks and other financial institutions;

•Kordoba, a provider of information technology solutions for the financial services industry with a focus on services and solutions for the German banking market;

•Aurum Technology, a provider of software and outsourcing solutions to community banks and credit unions; and

•The financial services division of ALLTEL Information Services, Inc., a provider of core banking services.

Employees

As of December 31, 2009, we had approximately 31,000 employees, including approximately 16,000 employees principally employed outside of the U.S. None of our U.S. workforce currently is unionized. Approximately 10,000 of our employees, primarily in Brazil and Germany, are represented by labor unions. We consider our relations with employees to be good.