TSYS Extends Agreement With CompuCredit

Columbus, GA, January 26, 2006 - TSYS has renewed its multi-year agreement to provide CompuCredit Corp., one of the nation's largest credit card providers, with processing and related services for its portfolio of nearly 6 million cardholder accounts. CompuCredit has been a client of TSYS since early 1997. Since then, CompuCredit has grown to become the 15th-largest provider of general-purpose Visa and MasterCard accounts in the United States, according the The Nilson Report. Based in Atlanta, CompuCredit provides the Aspire Visa and Emerge MasterCard products.

About TSYS

TSYS (www.tsys.com) 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 and prepaid services for financial institutions and retail companies in North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific. Based in Columbus, Ga., TSYS (NYSE: TSS) is 80-percent held by Synovus Financial Corp. (NYSE: SNV), one of FORTUNE magazine's "Most Admired Companies" and a member of its "100 Best Companies to Work For" Hall of Fame. For more information, contact news@tsys.com.

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Cyle Mims
TSYS Media Relations
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Shawn Roberts
TSYS Investor Relations
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