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To: AugustWest who wrote ()8/11/1999 8:20:00 AM
From: AugustWest   of 103
 
Fourth Quarter 1999 Highlights

* June 30, 1999 -- Navy Federal Credit Union, the world's largest
credit union, signs contract with CheckFree for electronic billing and
payment powered by CheckFree.
* June 15, 1999 -- CheckFree takes aim at 100 million Internet
consumers. Free introductory offer, growth in electronic billers,
customer care capabilities and payment offerings outlined.
* June 2, 1999 -- Hawaiian Electric to become first Hawaiian utility to
offer EBP through agreement with CheckFree.
* May 12, 1999 -- Pete Sinisgalli promoted to president and chief
operating officer of CheckFree. Sinisgalli served as executive vice
president and chief operating officer since October 1996.
* May 6, 1999 -- Home Account Network signs distribution agreement for
CheckFree E-Bill(SM), to be offered with Canopy Internet banking
software.
* May 4, 1999 -- Cox Communications, one of the nation's leading
communications companies, signs agreement with CheckFree for electronic
billing and payment.
* April 14, 1999 -- Bank One becomes the first bank to offer fully
integrated electronic bill delivery through the Integrion Financial
Network, using CheckFree's growing network of billers.
* April 13, 1999 -- CheckFree announces EC Solutions, a new division that
will provide consulting and professional services to prospective and
existing clients, industry partners and other organizations.

Third Quarter 1999 Highlights

* March 22, 1999 -- PNC Bank, Integrion Financial Network and CheckFree
announce plans to pilot a fully integrated, Web-based electronic
banking, bill delivery and payment service for PNC Bank customers. PNC
Bank already uses CheckFree for its bill payment service via personal
financial management software and telephone bill payment.
* March 19, 1999 -- CheckFree rolls out the first large-scale system
support for the Open Financial Exchange (OFX) specification for
electronic banking and bill payment. CheckFree's electronic payments
engine now supports OFX for transactions processed on behalf of 400,000
users, making it the largest in-production OFX-compliant system in the
industry.
* March 17, 1999 -- CheckFree and Equifax E-Banking Solutions, one of
the largest providers of electronic banking software in the United
States, announce that they have signed a three-year reseller agreement.
Under the agreement, Equifax E-Banking Solutions will resell CheckFree
E-Bill(SM) services to their customers, which include banks, credit
unions and savings institutions worldwide.
* March 16, 1999 -- CheckFree's Investment Services division reaches
600,000 portfolios on CheckFree APL and APL WRAP portfolio management
system. These portfolios total more than $400 billion in assets.
* March 15, 1999 -- Countrywide Securities Corporation selects CheckFree
RECON Trade(TM) to automate reconciliation deposits throughout the
company.
* March 8, 1999 -- CheckFree Holdings Corporation announces the
acquisition of Mobius Group, a leading provider of money manager
databases and financial planning software to the financial services
industry. The Mobius Group will allow CheckFree's Investment Services
division to offer the broadest suite of investment consulting services
and products in the industry today.
* March 4, 1999 -- billserv.com and CheckFree sign a service bureau
agreement whereby billserv.com will transmit billing information from
its base of biller customers to CheckFree, enabling CheckFree to
provide electronic billing and payment services to the growing number
of consumers who want to pay their bills electronically.
* March 3, 1999 -- CheckFree's Investment Services division announces
that it has successfully implemented the necessary code enhancements to
make both CheckFree APL and APL WRAP product lines "Y2K-ready."
CheckFree APL/APL WRAP is the leading portfolio accounting, performance
measurement, trading and reporting system in the industry.
* March 1, 1999 -- CheckFree and Nevada Power Company announce an
agreement for electronic billing and payment. The service will be
available to Nevada Power's more than 550,000 electricity and energy
services customers.
* Feb. 24, 1999 -- MCI WorldCom, one of the leading global
communications companies, launches its electronic billing and payment
service for residential customers -- backed by CheckFree's
infrastructure.
* Feb. 16, 1999 -- Illinois Power, an electric and gas utility serving
approximately 650,000 customers in Illinois, signs an agreement with
CheckFree to offer electronic billing and payment using CheckFree E-
Bill.
* Feb. 8, 1999 -- CheckFree announces the installation and successful
activation of a dedicated trading interface between its Investment
Services division and Interstate/Johnson Lane, a Charlotte-based
brokerage and investment-banking firm. This new trading interface
provides Interstate/Johnson Lane with true "interactive" trading
functionality, including the ability to electronically communicate
trading information directly to the trading floor for immediate
execution.
* Feb. 1, 1999 -- CheckFree names Mike Meriton as the new president of
Corporate Commerce Solutions, a unit of CheckFree's Software division.
* Jan. 26, 1999 -- CheckFree and Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., the
nation's largest independent mortgage lender with nearly 2 million
customers, sign an agreement for electronic billing and payment.
* Jan. 25, 1999 -- CheckFree's Investment Services division announces a
new agreement with Boston-based State Street Research & Management Co
to provide portfolio trading and accounting services.
* Jan. 11, 1999 -- NIIT joins CheckFree Biller Alliance Program to speed
time-to-market solution for billers that choose to house their own
internal server to link to CheckFree E-Bill version 2.0.

Second Quarter 1999 Highlights

* Dec. 28, 1998 -- Ameren Corp. selects CheckFree to provide electronic
billing, distribution and payment option for its 1.8 million customers
in Missouri and Illinois.
* Dec. 14, 1998 -- CheckFree and Southern Company, the largest producer
of electricity in the United States, sign agreement to provide
CheckFree E-Bill to its customers.
* Dec. 9, 1998 -- Data warehousing agreement is signed between
CheckFree and Business Technology Alliance to provide Investment
Services clients using CheckFree APL and APL WRAP the ability to store,
integrate and present mission-critical data for internal and customer
reports.
* Dec. 7, 1998 -- CheckFree licenses bill creation Internet billing
solution from BlueGill Technologies. Through the software/server
solution, billers have an expanded choice of providers to convert
existing print files to create electronic bills with enhanced marketing
opportunities.
* Dec. 2, 1998 -- Oracle partners with CheckFree for electronic billing
and payment, which will be fully integrated with Oracle's Internet Bill
& Pay.
* Dec. 2, 1998 -- CheckFree announces next generation of CheckFree E-
Bill and "direct distribution" model to combine biller control,
consumer ease-of-use, and quality service through enhanced security and
complete event tracking and authentication.
* Nov.18, 1998 -- HomeSide Lending launches E-Bill Payment Services to
its 1.4 million customers through agreement with CheckFree.
* Nov. 12, 1998 -- edocs completes BillDirect software integration with
CheckFree E-Bill delivery and payment systems. BillDirect provides
billers with a scalable Internet billing server, enrollment processing
and bill creation.
* Nov. 11, 1998 -- CheckFree Investment Services signs agreement with
Vestek Systems Inc. to provide online performance attribution via an
integrated data transfer of historical portfolio information from
CheckFree APL and APL WRAP clients to the Vestek Portfolio Analyzer.
* Nov. 11, 1998 -- CheckFree launches Electronic Banking Association Web
site to educate consumers on electronic banking, billing and payment
via the Internet.
* Nov. 10, 1998 -- CheckFree Biller Alliance Program is launched to help
billers deliver reliable, quick-to-market electronic billing and
payment solutions to their customers.
* Nov. 10, 1998 -- CheckFree and Mobius Systems, Inc. announce agreement
to integrate and jointly market a bundled offering that includes
Mobius' DocumentDirect archiving and retrieval and CheckFree E-Bill
presentment, distribution and payment solution.
* Nov. 10, 1998 -- Malaysia Electronic Payment Systems selects CheckFree
PEP+(TM) for real-time Automated Clearing House (ACH) transaction
processing for the country of Malaysia. CheckFree currently provides
clearing and settlement systems for Australia, Chile, Panama, Guatemala
and Colombia.
* Nov. 3, 1998 -- CheckFree and EDS sign 6-year agreement to include
CheckFree's electronic bill payment solution with services EDS provides
to its financial institution clients.
* Nov. 2, 1998 -- CheckFree Investment Services expands strategic
relationship with Schwab Institutional. The upgraded software
interface will enhance the user's ability to import account files
containing balance, position and trade information from Schwab into
CheckFree and will be available to download even faster from the
Internet via the Schwablink Web site.
* Oct. 28, 1998 -- Bell & Howell and CheckFree team to integrate paper
and electronic billing systems into a seamless solutions.
* Oct. 27, 1998 -- Dain Rauscher Inc. signs 3-year extension with
CheckFree to provide sophisticated portfolio administration, trading
measurement and reporting functionality to Dain Rauscher's Private
Client Group.
* Oct. 14, 1998 -- CheckFree RECON-Plus(TM) for Windows® is selected by
Cargill, an international agricultural, food, financial services and
industrial company, to provide daily account reconciliation for
Cargill's disbursement accounts.
* Oct. 13, 1998 -- Nicor Gas and CheckFree launch electronic billing and
payment option to more than 1.9 million northern Illinois customers.
* Oct. 1, 1998 -- First Union launches first fully integrated online
banking, billing and payment Web site, Cyberbanking BillPay, founded on
CheckFree services. BellSouth and Florida Power & Light join the
launch as highlights of the bills currently available through the First
Union site.

First Quarter 1999 Highlights

* September 29, 1998 -- CheckFree and the New Zealand Post sign agreement
to provide Internet billing and payment services for the country of New
Zealand.
* September 28, 1998 -- AIB Govett Inc. selects CheckFree's APL WRAP
services to provide portfolio accounting services for AIB Govett's
growing "private client" and high-net work investment advisory accounts
programs.
* September 22, 1998 -- Washington Water Power signs agreement with
CheckFree for Web-based electronic billing and payment through
CheckFree E-Bill.
* September 14, 1998 -- CheckFree announces new TCP/IP communication
interface between CheckFree's Investment Services Division and The
Depository Trust Corporation -- the world's largest securities
depository.
* September 9, 1998 -- PNC Bank announces electronic billing and payment
through CheckFree E-Bill.
* September 9, 1998 -- CheckFree RECON Select(TM) and CheckFree
A.R.M.(TM) are introduced at New York Cash Exchange.
* September 8, 1998 -- CheckFree introduces client/server-based Windows
version of CheckFree APL -- the industry leading portfolio management
system.
* September 1, 1998 -- Southern California Edison selects CheckFree E-
Bill to provide electronic billing and payment option to its 4.2
million customers.
* August 31, 1998 -- National Association of Unclaimed Property
Administrators introduces SCOUT (State Clearinghouse of Unclaimed
Treasures) Web site -- central database for states to list unclaimed
property records to be developed and operated by CheckFree.
* August 17, 1998 -- American Payment Systems selects CheckFree RECON-
Plus for Windows client/server solution to automate its more than
100,000 daily transactions.
* August 10, 1998 -- Public Service Company of New Mexico selects
CheckFree E-Bill for electronic billing and payment.
* July 28,1998 -- CheckFree announces agreement to provide NationsBank
with expanded ACH system support. NationsBank is the fifth largest
originator of ACH transactions.
* July 15, 1998 -- ABN AMRO North America selects CheckFree's RECON-Plus
for Windows to Reconcile 150,000+ Accounts.
* July 1, 1998 -- CheckFree announces London Bridge Software Holding
plc to acquire CheckFree Mortgage Products division.

This press release contains statements that are not purely historical, and as such are forward-looking statements under the Federal Securities laws. These include statements regarding management's intentions, plans, beliefs, expectations or projections of the future, and include statements in this document regarding the expected increased use of Internet based billing and payment services (paragraph 6), and the Company's expected revenues and loss for the first quarter of fiscal 2000 (paragraph 18). These forward looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, including without limitation, whether consumers will sign up for and use these services when and as expected, whether the Company's customers, particularly financial institutions and Internet portals, timely announce, actively offer and aggressively market such services to their clients and users, whether the Company's business and market assumptions supporting its current revenue and earnings projections will prove to be accurate, the various risks inherent in the Company's business, and other risks and uncertainties detailed from time to time in the Company's periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These include Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 1998, filed September 25, 1998, and Form S-3/A filed June 15, 1999. One or more of these factors have affected, and could in the future affect, the Company's business and financial results in future periods, and could cause actual results to differ materially from plans and projections. There can be no assurance that the forward- looking statements made today will prove to be accurate, and issuance of such forward-looking statements should not be regarded as a representation by the Company, or any other person, that the objectives and plans of the Company will be achieved. All forward-looking statements made in this press release are based on information presently available to management, and the Company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements.
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