SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
06029-900 - Osasco - SP
Federative Republic of Brazil
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Jointly Notice
Bradesco, Fidelity and Banco Real enter into Partnership to be Brazil’s largest supplier
of card processing services
Banco Bradesco S.A. (Bradesco), Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (Fidelity National) and Banco ABN AMRO Real S.A. (Banco Real) inform their stockholders and the general market that they have entered into an agreement to make a Partnership with the purpose of providing card processing services.
The new company, which will be called Fidelity Processadora e Serviços S.A. (Fidelity), will serve the current customers of Fidelity National and the new Partners, as well as other card issuers.
The services to be provided comprise all the activity chain of cards, mainly processing, call center management, back office support, collection services and risk management. The platform for card processing in the new company will be the state-of-the-art BASE2000 of Fidelity National.
Fidelity National, a worldwide leader in providing technology services for financial institutions, expects to process in the next 24 months over 20 million cards in Brazil and over 63 million worldwide.
The Partnership will make Fidelity one of the country’s largest card processing companies.
Bradesco was assisted by its Capital Market Department-BBI and Banco Real was assisted by its Corporate Finance Group.
| Banco Bradesco S.A. | Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. | Banco ABN AMRO Real S.A. |
| Márcio Artur Laurelli Cypriano | Michael A. Sanchez | Fabio C. Barbosa |
| Chief Executive Officer | Chairman International Division | President |
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BANCO BRADESCO S.A. |
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By: |
/S/ Milton Almicar Silva Vargas
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Milton Almicar Silva Vargas
Executive Vice President and Investor Relations Officer |
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