Corporate Milestones

James B. Lipham Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer Exceeding our clients’ and shareholders’ expectations is our daily goal. Our greatest satisfaction comes when our clients say we’ve helped them grow their business. Kenneth L. Tye Executive Vice President & Chief Information Officer Staying ahead of the technology race means looking for ways to do what we do more effectively and efficiently than anyone else in the business. Every day we try to bring the best technology to our clients. William A. Pruett Executive Vice President At TSYS, we consult with our clients giving them more than two decades of experience in the transaction processing business. Our goal is to proactively respond to our clients’ wishes, delivering the best business decisions to accomplish their goals. M. Troy Woods Executive Vice President As TSYS continues to expand internationally, many are amazed at our success and wonder how we’ve done it. Simply, we offer the best technology and service available, and we treat people with respect.

Financial Growth

• 24.2 percent 17-year compound growth rate of revenues
• 24.8 percent 17-year compound growth rate of net income
• 24.0 percent 17-year compound growth rate of earnings per share
• 27.2 percent 17-year compound growth rate of accounts on file
• $10,000 invested in TSYS in 1983 was worth $770,000 as of year-end 2000
• Chief Executive magazine ranks TSYS CEO Richard W. Ussery as the 15th top CEO of service companies in creating shareholder value

System Strengths

• Mainframes store 60 terabytes of data—six times the information contained in the Library of Congress
• Peak performance response time for 2000 was 342 authorizations per second
• Processed $83.5 billion in transactions during peak season
• Total processing capacity is almost 11.6 billion instructions per second
• Processed 5.6 billion transactions in 2000

Recognition

• Earned VisaNet Processor Performance and MasterCard Processor Certification awards
• Certified to process American Express transactions
• As a member of the Synovus Financial Corp.^® family of companies: named one of the “100 Best Companies To Work For”
  in America by FORTUNE magazine; and one of the “100 Best Companies for Working Mothers” by Working Mother magazine in 2000
• IBM estimates TSYS’ data centers—measured by MIPS (millions of instructions per second)—are among the top 50 IBM installations worldwide, the top 25 in the United States, the top 10 in the Southeast and the second largest in Georgia

Expansion

• Established TSYS Europe in London, Harrogate and York, England
• Established TSYS Japan in Tokyo
• Signed second-largest bank in the United Kingdom and largest bank in Ireland
• Purchased 53 percent interest in GP Network Corporation (GP Net), a payments network for 100,000 merchants in Japan

TSYS currently processes more than 200 million accounts, processes for 21 countries, in 11 currencies, in three languages, and maintains offices and facilities in the United States, Mexico, Canada, the United Kingdom and Japan.