Financial Astrology of Fiserv, Inc.

FINANCIAL ASTROLOGY

First Trade Date for Fiserv, Inc.

Company Name	First Trade Date (yyyy-mm-dd)
Fiserv, Inc.	1986-09-25

Company Name	Symbol
Fiserv, Inc.	FISV
History and Business of Company (this information may include date of incorporation)
Fiserv provides integrated data processing and information management systems to more than 15,000 financial services providers, including banks, broker-dealers, credit unions, financial planners and investment advisers, insurance companies and agents, self-insured employers, leasing companies, mortgage lenders and savings institutions. The Company operates centers in the United States for full-service financial data processing, software system development, item processing and check imaging, technology support and related product businesses. The Company's operations are principally domestic and in 2003 international operations constituted approximately 4% of total processing and services revenues through business support centers in Argentina, Australia, Canada, Colombia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Poland, Singapore and the United Kingdom. The Company was formed in 1984 through the combination of two major regional data processing firms that began as the data processing operations of their parent financial institutions. Historically, these firms expanded operations by developing a range of services for their parent organizations, as well as other financial institutions. Since its organization, Fiserv has grown by developing highly specialized services and product enhancements, adding new clients and acquiring firms complementing the Fiserv organization. The market for products and services offered by financial institutions continues to undergo change. The financial industry introduces and implements new alternative lending and investment products with great frequency. The distinctions among financial services traditionally offered by banking and thrift organizations as well as by securities and insurance firms continue to narrow, as traditionally different entities compete for the same ultimate customers with competitive services. Financial institutions diversify and consolidate on an ongoing basis in response to market pressures, as well as under the auspices of regulatory agencies. Although such market changes have led to consolidations that have reduced the number of financial institutions in the United States, consolidation has not resulted in a material reduction of the number of customers or financial accounts serviced by the financial industry as a whole. New organizations entering the once limited financial services industry have opened new markets for Fiserv services. To stay competitive in this changing marketplace, financial institutions are providing their customers a broad variety of new products and services that are typically transaction-oriented and fee-based. The growing volume and types of transactions and accounts have increased the data processing requirements of these institutions. As a consequence, Fiserv believes that the financial services industry is one of the largest users of data processing products and services. Moreover, Fiserv expects that the financial industry will continue to require significant commitments of capital and human resources to the information systems requirements, to require application of more specialized systems and to require development, maintenance and enhancement of applications software. Fiserv believes that economies of scale in data processing operations are essential to justify the required level of expenditures and commitment of human resources. In response to these market dynamics, financial institutions obtain data processing services by different means than in the past. Many smaller, local and regional third-party data processors are leaving the business or consolidating with larger providers. A number of large financial institutions previously providing third-party processing services for other institutions have withdrawn from the business to concentrate on their primary, core businesses. Similarly, an increasing number of financial institutions that previously developed their own software systems and maintained their own data processing operations have outsourced their data processing requirements by licensing their software from a third party or by contracting with third-party processors to reduce costs and enhance their products and services. Outsourcing can involve the licensing of software, which eliminates the costly technical expertise within a financial institution, or the utilization of service bureaus, facilities management or resource management capabilities. Fiserv provides all of these options to the financial industry. To capitalize on these industry trends, Fiserv has implemented a strategy of continuing to develop new products, improving the cost effectiveness of services provided to clients, aggressively soliciting new clients, and making both opportunistic and strategic acquisitions. In 2001, Fiserv acquired 12 businesses, adding combined annual revenues of more than $380 million and approximately 4,000 new employees. In 2002, Fiserv acquired five businesses, with combined annual revenues of more than $210 million and approximately 1,100 employees. In 2003, Fiserv acquired 12 businesses, with combined annual revenues of more than $610 million and approximately 3,200 employees.

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