Wolters Kluwer Financial Services Announces Agreement with WBA and FIPCO

MINNEAPOLIS, April 3 /PRNewswire/ — Wolters Kluwer Financial Services, the Wisconsin Bankers Association (WBA) and its wholly owned subsidiary, Financial Institution Products Corporation (FIPCO), announced an agreement to resell, endorse and refer a variety of Wolters Kluwer Financial Services’ products and solutions to members of the WBA and customers of FIPCO.


The recently signed agreement between Wolters Kluwer Financial Services, the WBA and FIPCO will allow FIPCO to offer a customized version of Wolters Kluwer Financial Services’ new ComplianceOne(TM) product to WBA members and other financial organizations. The customized version will include WBA lending and deposit forms. ComplianceOne is a comprehensive new solution capable of integrating and uniting all of an organization’s major business lines, including lending, deposit, mortgage and IRA, as well as administrative functions, on a single delivery platform. ComplianceOne will be available to current FIPCO customers as Financial Link(R).


A variety of other Wolters Kluwer Financial Services products and solutions are also included in this agreement. These include:

   — Compliance University, the company’s online compliance-based and soft-
skill training, as well as telephone training.

— IRA training seminars and related products.

— Several of the company’s solutions addressing mortgage lending,
including pre-printed documents, the UCC Direct Mortgage Document
Processing System and the Secure Document Exchange (SDX).


“I am confident that WBA members will directly benefit from this new relationship with Wolters Kluwer Financial Services, which brings more diversified, high-quality offerings for our members’ consideration,” said Kurt Bauer, president of the WBA.


“We want to help our members minimize their regulatory compliance risk and improve their business processes in the most effective way possible,” said Richard Gaul, President of FIPCO. “Wolters Kluwer Financial Services and its breadth of regulatory compliance solutions will help us do that.”


“Partnering with an organization like the WBA, which plays such an integral role in supporting the business and risk management needs of its member banks, helps us be more effective in providing Wisconsin bankers with the most innovative regulatory compliance solutions,” said Jay Tindall, senior vice president of Banking for Wolters Kluwer Financial Services.


“We look forward to working closely with the WBA/FIPCO and helping its members and customers meet their regulatory compliance needs,” added John Bryant, executive vice president of Banking for Wolters Kluwer Financial Services.


For more specific information on the products, solutions and services available through this agreement, please contact director of Sales Lisa Brodacz at FIPCO at 608/441-1254, Account Executives David Brenner at 608/441-1258 or Regina Graham at 608/441-1257.


About Wolters Kluwer Financial Services


Wolters Kluwer Financial Services provides best-in-class compliance, content, and technology solutions and services that help financial organizations manage risk and improve efficiency and effectiveness across their enterprise. The organization’s prominent brands include Bankers Systems, VMP(R) Mortgage Solutions, PCi, GulfPak, GainsKeeper(R), CCH(R) Capital Changes, NILS INSource(R), AuthenticWeb(TM) and CCH Wall Street.


Wolters Kluwer Financial Services’ solutions include integrated and stand- alone compliance and work flow tools, documentation, analytics, authoritative information, and professional services. Customers include banks, credit unions, mortgage lenders, and securities and insurance organizations of all sizes throughout the United States. For more information on Wolters Kluwer Financial Services, visit http://www.wolterskluwerfs.com/ .


Wolters Kluwer is a leading global information services and publishing company. The company provides products and services for professionals in the health, tax, accounting, corporate, financial services, legal and regulatory, and education sectors. Wolters Kluwer has annual revenues (2006) of euro 3.7 billion, employs approximately 19,900 people worldwide and maintains operations across Europe, North America, and Asia Pacific. Wolters Kluwer is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Its shares are quoted on the Euronext Amsterdam (WKL) and are included in the AEX and Euronext 100 indices. For more information, visit http://www.wolterskluwer.com/ .


About Wisconsin Bankers Association


The Wisconsin Bankers Association is the state’s largest financial industry trade association, representing 300 commercial banks and savings institutions, their nearly 2,300 branch offices and 28,000 employees.


About FIPCO


Financial Institution Products Corporation(R) (FIPCO(R)) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Wisconsin Bankers Association (WBA). Providing top quality products, services and support to the financial industry, our core products consist of innovative loan and mortgage origination and documentation software packages, account opening software, document imaging and tracking software and a complete hard copy forms set.