TSYS Europe Offers Instant-Issue Capability for Prepaid Cards

TSYS Europe and The Gift Voucher Shop (GVS) today announced the
successful launch of GVS' One4all retail gift card campaign in five
major Irish Post Offices in Dublin and on the GVS Web site,
www.giftvouchershop.ie.

GVS is an established gift-giving service that offers consumers
and recipients ultimate choice and flexibility. The new gift cards
will be offered in a growing number of Post Offices throughout Ireland
and the UK later this year. TSYS Europe has issued more than 1.7
million instant-issuance, non-personalised cards in support of the GVS
One4all product -- making it the largest, single-customer bulk card
order done by the company to date.

"When we approached TSYS Europe with this program, we knew it was
going to be a challenge for them to accommodate an order of this
magnitude with such a short timeframe," said Declan Byrne, director of
international business development for GVS. "They have met this
challenge head-on, enabling us to enjoy a successful roll-out of the
One4all product, as well as move forward with a product expansion into
more locations across the UK and Ireland as scheduled."

"The launch of the GVS One4all prepaid card is another fantastic
example of TSYS delivering innovative and large scale prepaid
programmes. The product is Visa supported, although the card does not
carry the logo, and is restricted to acceptance within a GVS-defined
network of more than 200 UK retailers," said Kelley Knutson, managing
director of TSYS Europe. "GVS have a strong established paper voucher
business and chose TSYS to process the prepaid product, so our ability
to deliver a robust solution capable of handling substantial volumes
was key. Our experienced European-based prepaid team was instrumental
for this project and they continue to demonstrate great proficiency at
managing large scale clients across Europe."

TSYS now process multiple prepaid portfolios for major banks
across Europe, including Bank of Ireland, Royal Bank of Scotland,
Norwich Union, Santander and LloydsTSB.

About GVS

The Gift Voucher Shop (GVS) is a unique and unrivalled service
that eliminates any hassles normally associated with gift giving by
offering consumers and recipients ultimate choice and flexibility.
Through each country's Post Office network, web and telesales
channels, GVS offers the most comprehensive range of gift vouchers for
an extensive and attractive array of top brands as well as smaller
independent retail partners.

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 the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions. Based
in Columbus, Ga., TSYS (NYSE: TSS) is closely 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" for 10
straight years. For more information, contact news@tsys.com.