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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 13, 2007

Registration No. 333-                


UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 


FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 


FISERV, INC.*

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 


 

Wisconsin   39-1506125

(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)

  (I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)

255 Fiserv Drive

Brookfield, Wisconsin 53045

(262) 879-5000 (Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

 


Thomas J. Hirsch

Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer,

Treasurer and Assistant Secretary

255 Fiserv Drive

Brookfield, Wisconsin 53045

(262) 879-5000

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

with a copy to:

Benjamin F. Garmer, III, Esq. John K. Wilson, Esq. Foley & Lardner LLP 777 East Wisconsin Avenue Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202-5306 (414) 271-2400

 


Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: From time to time after the effective date of this registration statement.

If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box.   ¨

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box.   x

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.   ¨

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.   ¨

If this Form is a registration statement pursuant to General Instruction I.D. or a post-effective amendment thereto that shall become effective upon filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(e) under the Securities Act, check the following box.   x

If this Form is a post-effective amendment to a registration statement filed pursuant to General Instruction I.D. filed to register additional securities or additional classes of securities pursuant to Rule 413(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box.   ¨

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

   

Title of each class of

securities to be registered

  

Amount to be registered/

Proposed maximum offering price per unit/
Proposed maximum offering price

     Amount of registration fee  

Debt Securities

     

Guarantees of Debt Securities (2)

   (1 )    $ (1)

Common Stock, $.01 par value

     

Preferred Stock Purchase Rights (3)

     

Warrants

     

Stock Purchase Contracts

     

Stock Purchase Units

               
   

(1) An indeterminate aggregate initial offering price or number of the securities of each identified class is being registered as may from time to time be offered at indeterminate prices. Separate consideration may or may not be received for securities that are issuable on exercise, conversion or exchange of other securities or that are issued in units. In accordance with Rules 456(b) and 457(r), the Registrants are deferring payment of all of the registration fee. This registration statement also covers delayed delivery contracts that may be issued by Fiserv, Inc. under which the party purchasing such contracts may be required to purchase debt securities, common stock or preferred stock. Such contracts may be issued together with the specific securities to which they relate. In addition, securities registered hereunder may be sold either separately or as units comprised of more than one type of security registered hereunder.
(2) No separate consideration will be received for the guarantees.
(3) The preferred stock purchase rights are attached to and traded with the shares of common stock being registered. The value attributable to the preferred stock purchase rights, if any, is reflected in the value attributable to the common stock.

 



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* TABLE OF SUBSIDIARY GUARANTOR REGISTRANTS

 

Name, Address and Telephone Number (1)

   State or Other
Jurisdiction of
Incorporation
   I.R.S.
Employer
Identification
Number

Information Technology, Inc.

   Nebraska    47-0583256

Precision Computer Systems, Inc.

   South Dakota    46-0367922

ITI of Nebraska, Inc.

   Nebraska    39-1974807

Fiserv Solutions, Inc.

   Wisconsin    39-1833695

BillMatrix Corporation

   Delaware    75-2865604

BMC Government Services, Inc.

   Delaware    75-2875113

BMC Processing, Inc.

   Delaware    75-2875112

BMC Resources, Inc.

   Delaware    75-2875110

BMC U.S., Inc.

   Delaware    75-2875107

TelePay, Inc.

   Texas    75-2548633

Del Mar Datatrac, Inc.

   California    33-0570143

EPSIIA Corporation

   Texas    74-2249134

Fiserv Fulfillment Services, Inc.

   Pennsylvania    25-1514993

Fiserv Fulfillment Services, Inc.

   Arizona    03-0479381

Fiserv Fulfillment Services of Alabama, L.L.C.

   Alabama    63-1255886

Fiserv Fulfillment Services Title Agency, Inc.

   Ohio    32-1520433

Fiserv Fulfillment Services South, Inc.

   Florida    58-2147685

Interactive Technologies, Inc.

   New Jersey    22-3262721

Jerome Group, L.L.C.

   Missouri    43-1948334

(1) The address of the principal executive offices for each of these additional registrants is 255 Fiserv Drive, Brookfield, WI 53045. Their telephone number is (262) 879-5000.


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Prospectus

LOGO

 


Debt Securities

Common Stock

Preferred Stock

Warrants

Stock Purchase Contracts

Stock Purchase Units

 


We may offer and sell from time to time our securities in one or more classes or series and in amounts, at prices and on terms that we will determine at the times of the offerings. Our subsidiaries may guarantee any debt securities that we issue under this prospectus. In addition, selling shareholders to be named in a prospectus supplement may offer and sell from time to time shares of our common stock in such amounts as set forth in a prospectus supplement. Unless otherwise set forth in a prospectus supplement, we will not receive any proceeds from the sale of shares of our common stock by any selling shareholders.

We will provide specific terms of the securities, including the offering prices, in one or more supplements to this prospectus. The supplements may also add, update or change information contained in this prospectus. You should read this prospectus and the prospectus supplement relating to the specific issue of securities carefully before you invest.

We may offer the securities independently or together in any combination for sale directly to purchasers or through underwriters, dealers or agents to be designated at a future date. The supplements to this prospectus will provide the specific terms of the plan of distribution.

Our common stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “FISV.”

Investment in our securities involves risks. See “Risk Factors” in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and in any applicable prospectus supplement and/or other offering material for a discussion of certain factors which should be considered in an investment of the securities which may be offered hereby.

 


Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or determined if this prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

 


The date of this prospectus is November 13, 2007.


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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

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About This Prospectus

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Forward-Looking Statements

   3

Fiserv, Inc.

   4

Selling Shareholders

   4

Use of Proceeds

   4

Ratios of Earnings to Fixed Charges

   4

Description of Debt Securities

   5

Description of Capital Stock

   11

Description of Warrants

   14

Description of Stock Purchase Contracts and Stock Purchase Units

   15

Where You Can Find More Information

   16

Plan of Distribution

   17

Legal Matters

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Experts

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ABOUT THIS PROSPECTUS

Unless the context otherwise requires, in this prospectus, “we,” “us,” “our” or “ours” refer to Fiserv, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries.

This prospectus is part of a registration statement that we filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, utilizing a “shelf” registration process. Under this shelf process, we may, from time to time, sell the securities or combinations of the securities described in this prospectus in one or more offerings. This prospectus provides you with a general description of the securities that we may offer and the shares of our common stock that selling shareholders may offer. Each time we offer securities, we will provide a prospectus supplement and/or other offering material that will contain specific information about the terms of that offering. The prospectus supplement and/or other offering material may also add, update or change information contained in this prospectus. You should read this prospectus, any prospectus supplement and any other offering material together with additional information described under the heading “Where You Can Find More Information.”

You should rely only on the information contained or incorporated by reference in this prospectus and in any prospectus supplement or other offering material. We have not authorized any other person to provide you with different information. If anyone provides you with different or inconsistent information, you should not rely on it. We are not making offers to sell or solicitations to buy the securities in any jurisdiction in which an offer or solicitation is not authorized or in which the person making that offer or solicitation is not qualified to do so or to anyone to whom it is unlawful to make an offer or solicitation. You should not assume that the information in this prospectus, any prospectus supplement or any other offering material, or the information we previously filed with the SEC that we incorporate by reference in this prospectus or any prospectus supplement, is accurate as of any date other than its respective date. Our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects may have changed since those dates.

 

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FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This prospectus, any supplement to this prospectus and any other offering material, and the information incorporated by reference in this prospectus or any prospectus supplement and any other offering material, contains “forward-looking statements” intended to qualify for the safe harbor from liability established by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include those that express a plan, belief, expectation, estimation, anticipation, intent, contingency, future development or similar expression, and can generally be identified as forward-looking because they include words such as “believes,” “anticipates,” “expects,” “could,” “should,” or words of similar import. Statements that describe our objectives or goals are also forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements included or incorporated by reference in this prospectus or any supplement to this prospectus involve significant risks and uncertainties, and a number of factors, both foreseen and unforeseen, could cause actual results to differ materially from our current expectations. The factors that may affect our results include, among others, changes in customer demand for our products or services, pricing and other actions by competitors, the potential impact of our Fiserv 2.0 initiatives, general changes in economic conditions and other factors discussed under “Risk Factors” in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and other documents we file with the SEC. We urge you to consider these factors carefully in evaluating the forward-looking statements and caution you not to place undue reliance upon forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this document or the date of the incorporated document. We undertake no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.

 

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FISERV, INC.

We provide integrated information management systems and services, including transaction processing, business process outsourcing, and software and systems solutions. We serve more than 18,000 clients worldwide and are a leading provider of core processing solutions for U.S. banks, credit unions and thrifts.

We are a Wisconsin corporation and our principal executive offices are located at 255 Fiserv Drive, Brookfield, Wisconsin 53045. Our telephone number is (262) 879-5000.

SELLING SHAREHOLDERS

We may register shares of common stock covered by this prospectus for re-offers and resales by any selling shareholders to be named in a prospectus supplement. Because we are a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933, we may add secondary sales of shares of our common stock by any selling shareholders by filing a prospectus supplement with the SEC. We may register these shares to permit selling shareholders to resell their shares when they deem appropriate. A selling shareholder may resell all, a portion or none of such shareholder’s shares at any time and from time to time. Selling shareholders may also sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of some or all of their shares of our common stock in transactions exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. We do not know when or in what amounts the selling shareholders may offer shares for sale under this prospectus and any prospectus supplement. We may pay all expenses incurred with respect to the registration of the shares of common stock owned by the selling shareholders, other than underwriting fees, discounts or commissions, which will be borne by the selling shareholders. We will provide you with a prospectus supplement naming the selling shareholders, the amount of shares to be registered and sold and any other terms of the shares of common stock being sold by each selling shareholder.

USE OF PROCEEDS

We intend to use the net proceeds from the sales of the securities as set forth in the applicable prospectus supplement and/or other offering material.

RATIOS OF EARNINGS TO FIXED CHARGES

The following table presents our ratios of consolidated earnings to fixed charges for the periods presented.

 

     Nine Months Ended
September 30, 2007
   Years Ended December 31,
      2006    2005    2004    2003    2002

Ratio of earnings to fixed charges (1)

   9.1x    9.7x    13.3x    11.1x    9.4x    9.6x

(1) For purposes of calculating the ratios of consolidated earnings to fixed charges, earnings before income taxes and fixed charges are divided by fixed charges. “Fixed charges” represent interest (whether expensed or capitalized), the amortization of debt discount and expenses and the estimated interest component of rent expense.

We did not have any preferred stock outstanding and we did not pay or accrue any preferred stock dividends during the periods presented above.

 

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DESCRIPTION OF DEBT SECURITIES

This section describes the general terms and provisions of the debt securities that we may issue separately, upon exercise of a debt warrant, in connection with a stock purchase contract or as part of a stock purchase unit from time to time in the form of one or more series of debt securities. The applicable prospectus supplement and/or other offering material will describe the specific terms of the debt securities offered through that prospectus supplement as well as any general terms described in this section that will not apply to those debt securities. The debt securities will be issued under an indenture among us, certain of our domestic subsidiaries that may guarantee the securities and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee.

We have summarized selected provisions of the indenture below. The summary is not complete. The form of the indenture has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as an exhibit to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part, and you should read the indenture for provisions that may be important to you. In the summary below, we have included references to article or section numbers of the indenture so that you can easily locate these provisions. Whenever we refer in this prospectus or in the prospectus supplement to particular article or sections or defined terms of the indentures, those article or sections or defined terms are incorporated by reference herein or therein, as applicable. Capitalized terms used in the summary have the meanings specified in the indenture.

General

The indenture provides that debt securities in separate series may be issued under the indenture from time to time without limitation as to aggregate principal amount. We may specify a maximum aggregate principal amount for the debt securities of any series (Section 301). We will determine the terms and conditions of the debt securities, including the maturity, principal and interest, but those terms must be consistent with the indenture.

The applicable prospectus supplement will set forth or describe the following terms of each series of such debt securities:

 

   

the title of the debt securities;

 

   

any limit on the aggregate principal amount of the debt securities;

 

   

the price or prices at which the debt securities will be offered;

 

   

the person to whom any interest on the debt securities will be payable;

 

   

the dates on which the principal of the debt securities will be payable;

 

   

the interest rate or rates that the debt securities will bear and the interest payment dates for the debt securities;

 

   

the places where payments on the debt securities will be payable;

 

   

any periods within which, and terms upon which, the debt securities may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at our option;

 

   

any sinking fund or other provisions that would obligate us to repurchase or otherwise redeem the debt securities;

 

   

the portion of the principal amount, if less than all, of the debt securities that will be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the maturity of the debt securities;

 

   

whether the debt securities are defeasible and any changes or additions to the indenture’s defeasance provisions;

 

   

whether the debt securities are convertible into our common stock and, if so, the terms and conditions upon which conversion will be effected;

 

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any addition to or change in the events of default with respect to the debt securities;

 

   

any addition to or change in the covenants in the indenture;

 

   

whether any of our subsidiaries will provide guarantees of the debt securities; and

 

   

any other terms of the debt securities not inconsistent with the provisions of the indenture (Section 301).

The indenture does not limit the amount of debt securities that may be issued. The indenture allows debt securities to be issued up to the principal amount that we may authorize and may be in any currency or currency unit we designate.

Debt securities, including Original Issue Discount Securities (as defined in the indenture), may be sold at a substantial discount below their principal amount. Special U.S. federal income tax considerations applicable to debt securities sold at an original issue discount may be described in the applicable prospectus supplement. In addition, special U.S. federal income tax or other considerations applicable to any debt securities that are denominated in a currency or currency unit other than U.S. dollars may be described in the applicable prospectus supplement.

Subsidiary Guarantees

If specified in the prospectus supplement, certain of our subsidiaries (our “subsidiary guarantors”) will guarantee the debt securities of a series.

Conversion Rights

The debt securities may be converted into other of our securities, if at all, according to the terms and conditions of an applicable prospectus supplement. Such terms will include the conversion price, the conversion period, provisions as to whether conversion will be at our option or the option of the holders of such series of debt securities, the events requiring an adjustment of the conversion price, and provisions affecting conversion in the event of the redemption of such series of debt securities.

Consolidation, Merger and Sale of Assets

Unless otherwise specified in the prospectus supplement, we may not consolidate with or merge into, or transfer, lease or otherwise dispose all or substantially all of our assets to, any person, and may not permit any person to consolidate with or merge into us, unless:

 

   

the successor person (if any) is a corporation, limited liability company, partnership, trust or other entity organized and validly existing under the laws of any domestic jurisdiction and assumes our obligations with respect to the debt securities under the indentures;

 

   

immediately after giving pro forma effect to the transaction, no event of default, and no event which, after notice or lapse of time or both, would become an event of default, exists; and

 

   

we deliver to the trustee an officers’ certificate and opinion of counsel stating that the transaction and the related supplemental indenture comply with the applicable provisions of the indenture and all applicable conditions precedent have been satisfied (Section 801).

Events of Default

Unless otherwise specified in the prospectus supplement, each of the following will constitute an event of default under the indenture with respect to debt securities of any series:

 

  (1) failure to pay principal of or any premium on any debt security of that series when due;

 

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  (2) failure to pay any interest on any debt securities of that series when due, that is not cured within 30 days;

 

  (3) failure to deposit any sinking fund payment, when due, in respect of any debt security of that series, that is not cured within 30 days;

 

  (4) failure to perform any of our other covenants in such indenture (other than a covenant included in such indenture solely for the benefit of a series other than that series or that is not made applicable to that series), that is not cured within 90 days after written notice has been given by the trustee, or the holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding debt securities of that series, as provided in such indenture; or

 

  (5) certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization affecting us or any of our significant subsidiaries.

If an event of default (other than an event of default with respect to Fiserv, Inc. described in clause (5) above) with respect to the debt securities of any series at the time outstanding occurs and is continuing, either the trustee by notice to us or the holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding debt securities of that series by notice to us and the trustee may declare the principal amount of the debt securities of that series (or, in the case of any Original Issue Discount Security, such portion of the principal amount of such security as may be specified in the terms of such security) to be due and payable immediately. If an event of default with respect to Fiserv, Inc. described in clause (5) above with respect to the debt securities of any series at the time outstanding occurs, the principal amount of all the debt securities of that series (or, in the case of any such Original Issue Discount Security, such specified amount) will automatically, and without any action by the trustee or any holder, become immediately due and payable. After any such acceleration, but before a judgment or decree based on acceleration, the holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding debt securities of that series may, under certain circumstances, rescind and annul such acceleration if all events of default, other than the non-payment of accelerated principal (or other specified amount), have been cured or waived as provided in the indenture (Section 502). For information as to waiver of defaults, see “— Modification and Waiver” below.

Subject to the provisions of the indenture relating to the duties of the trustee in case an event of default has occurred and is continuing, the trustee will be under no obligation to exercise any of its rights or powers under the indenture at the request or direction of any of the holders of debt securities, unless such holders have offered to the trustee reasonable indemnity (Section 603). Subject to such provisions for the indemnification of the trustee, the holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding debt securities of any series will have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred on the trustee with respect to the debt securities of that series (Section 512).

No holder of a debt security of any series will have any right to institute any proceeding under the indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or a trustee, or for any other remedy under the indenture, unless:

 

   

such holder gives the trustee written notice of a continuing event of default with respect to the debt securities of that series;

 

   

the holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding debt securities of that series made a written request to pursue the remedy, and such holders have offered reasonable indemnity, to the trustee for losses incurred in connection with pursuit of the remedy; and

 

   

the trustee fails to comply with the request, and does not receive from the holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding debt securities of that series a direction inconsistent with such request, within 60 days after such notice, request and offer (Section 507).

However, such limitations do not apply to a suit instituted by a holder of a debt security to enforce the payment of the principal of or any premium or interest on such debt security on or after the applicable due date specified in such debt security or, if applicable, to convert such debt security (Sections 507 and 508).

 

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We will be required to furnish to the trustee annually a statement by certain of our officers as to whether or not we, to their knowledge, are in default in the performance or observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions of the indenture and, if so, specifying all such known defaults (Section 1004).

Modification and Waiver

Unless otherwise specified in the prospectus supplement, modifications and amendments of the indenture may be made by us, our subsidiary guarantors, if applicable, and the trustee with the consent of the holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding debt securities of each series affected by such modification or amendment; provided, however, that no such modification or amendment may, without the consent of the holder of each outstanding debt security affected thereby:

 

   

change the stated maturity of the principal of, or any installment of principal of or interest on, any debt security;

 

   

reduce the principal amount of, or any premium or interest on, any debt security;

 

   

reduce the amount of principal payable upon acceleration of the maturity of any debt security;

 

   

change the place, manner or currency of payment of principal of, or any premium or interest on, any debt security;

 

   

impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any payment due on or any conversion right with respect to any debt securities in a manner adverse to the holders of such debt securities;

 

   

except as provided in the indenture, release the guarantee of a subsidiary guarantor;

 

   

reduce the percentage in principal amount of outstanding debt securities of any series, the consent of whose holders is required for modification or amendment of the indenture;

 

   

reduce the percentage in principal amount of outstanding debt securities of any series necessary for waiver of compliance with certain provisions of the indenture or for waiver of certain defaults;

 

   

modify such provisions with respect to modification, amendment or waiver; or

 

   

change the ranking of any series of debt securities (Section 902).

Unless otherwise specified in the prospectus supplement, the holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding debt securities of any series may waive compliance by us with certain restrictive provisions of the indenture (Section 902). The holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding debt securities of any series may also waive any past default under the indenture, except a default:

 

   

in the payment of principal, premium or interest or the payment of any redemption, purchase or repurchase price;

 

   

arising from our failure to convert any debt security in accordance with the indenture; or

 

   

of certain covenants and provisions of the indenture which cannot be amended without the consent of the holder of each outstanding debt security of such series (Section 513).

Satisfaction and Discharge

The indenture will be discharged and will cease to be of further effect as to any series of debt securities (except as to any surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of debt securities expressly provided for in the indenture or any other surviving rights expressly provided for in a supplemental indenture) when:

 

   

either:

 

   

all debt securities that have been authenticated (except lost, stolen or destroyed debt securities that have been replaced or paid and debt securities for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust and thereafter repaid to us) have been delivered to the trustee for cancellation; or

 

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all debt securities that have not been delivered to the trustee for cancellation have become due and payable or will become due and payable at their stated maturity within one year or are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the trustee and in any case we have deposited with the trustee as trust funds U.S. dollars or U.S. government obligations in an amount sufficient, to pay the entire indebtedness of such debt securities not delivered to the trustee for cancellation, for principal, premium, if any, and accrued interest to the stated maturity or redemption date;

 

   

we have paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable by us under the indenture; and

 

   

we have delivered an officers’ certificate and an opinion of counsel to the trustee stating that we have satisfied all conditions precedent to satisfaction and discharge of the indenture with respect to the debt securities (Section 401).

Legal Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance

Legal Defeasance . We and, if applicable, each subsidiary guarantor will be discharged from all our obligations with respect to such debt securities (except for certain obligations to convert, exchange or register the transfer of debt securities, to replace stolen, lost or mutilated debt securities, to maintain paying agencies and to hold moneys for payment in trust) upon the deposit in trust for the benefit of the holders of such debt securities of money or U.S. government obligations, or both, which, through the payment of principal and interest in respect thereof in accordance with their terms, will provide money in an amount sufficient to pay the principal of and any premium and interest on such debt securities on the respective stated maturities in accordance with the terms of the indenture and such debt securities. Such defeasance or discharge may occur only if, among other things:

 

  (1) we have delivered to the trustee an opinion of counsel to the effect that we have received from, or there has been published by, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service a ruling, or there has been a change in tax law, in either case to the effect that holders of such debt securities will not recognize gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such deposit and legal defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amount, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such deposit and legal defeasance were not to occur;

 

  (2) no event of default or event that with the passing of time or the giving of notice, or both, shall constitute an event of default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of such deposit or, with respect to any event of default described in clause (5) under “—Events of Default,” at any time until 90 days after such deposit;

 

  (3) such deposit and defeasance will not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any agreement or instrument to which we are a party or by which we are bound; and

 

  (4) we have delivered to the trustee an opinion of counsel to the effect that such defeasance will not cause the trustee or the trust so created to be subject to the Investment Company Act of 1940 (Sections 1302 and 1304).

Covenant Defeasance . The indentures provide that we may elect, at our option, that our failure to comply with certain restrictive covenants (but not to conversion, if applicable), including those that may be described in the applicable prospectus supplement, and the occurrence of certain events of default which are described above in clause (4) under “Events of Default” and any that may be described in the applicable prospectus supplement, will not be deemed to either be or result in an event of default with respect to such debt securities. In order to exercise such option, we must deposit, in trust for the benefit of the holders of such debt securities, money or U.S. government obligations, or both, which, through the payment of principal and interest in respect thereof in accordance with their terms, will provide money in an amount sufficient to pay the principal of and any premium and interest on such debt securities on the respective stated maturities in accordance with the terms of the indenture and such debt securities. Such covenant defeasance may occur only if we have delivered to the trustee an opinion of counsel that in effect says that holders of such debt securities will not recognize gain or loss for

 

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federal income tax purposes as a result of such deposit and covenant defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amount, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such deposit and covenant defeasance were not to occur, and the requirements set forth in clauses (2), (3), and (4) under the heading—“Legal Defeasance” above are satisfied. If we exercise this option with respect to any debt securities and such debt securities were declared due and payable because of the occurrence of any event of default, the amount of money and U.S. government obligations so deposited in trust would be sufficient to pay amounts due on such debt securities at the time of their respective stated maturities but may not be sufficient to pay amounts due on such debt securities upon any acceleration resulting from such event of default. In such case, we would remain liable for such payments (Sections 1303 and 1304).

 

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DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL STOCK

The following description of our capital stock summarizes general terms and provisions that apply to our capital stock. Because this is only a summary it does not contain all of the information that may be important to you. The summary is subject to and qualified in its entirety by reference to our articles of incorporation, by-laws and rights agreement, which are filed as exhibits to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part and incorporated by reference into this prospectus. See “Where You Can Find More Information.”

General

Our authorized capital stock consists of 450,000,000 shares of common stock, $0.01 par value per share, and 25,000,000 shares of preferred stock, $0.01 par value per share. We will disclose in an applicable prospectus supplement and/or offering material the number of shares of our common stock then outstanding. As of the date of this prospectus, no shares of our preferred stock were outstanding.

Common Stock

Subject to Section 180.1150 of the Wisconsin Business Corporation Law (described below under “Statutory Provisions”), holders of our common stock are entitled to one vote for each share of common stock held by them on all matters properly presented to shareholders. Subject to the prior rights of the holders of any shares of our preferred stock that are outstanding, our board of directors may at its discretion declare and pay dividends on our common stock out of our earnings or assets legally available for the payment of dividends. Subject to the prior rights of the holders of any shares of our preferred stock that are outstanding, if we are liquidated, any amounts remaining after the discharge of outstanding indebtedness will be paid pro rata to the holders of our common stock. Holders of our common stock have no preemptive, subscription, redemption or conversion rights. The rights, preferences and privileges of holders of our common stock are subject to, and may be adversely affected by, the rights of the holders of shares of any series of preferred stock that we may designate and issue in the future.

Preferred Stock

Our board of directors is authorized to issue our preferred stock in series and to fix the voting rights; the designations, preferences, limitations and relative rights of any series with respect to the rate of dividend, the price, the terms and conditions of redemption; the amounts payable in the event of voluntary or involuntary liquidation; sinking fund provisions for redemption or purchase of a series; and the terms and conditions on which a series may be converted.

In connection with the issuance of the rights described below, our board of directors has authorized a series of our preferred stock designated as Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock. Shares of our Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock purchasable upon the exercise of the rights will not be redeemable. Each share of our Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock will be entitled to an aggregate dividend of 337.5 times the dividend we declare per share of our common stock. In the event of our liquidation, the holders of the shares of our Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock will be entitled to a payment equal to the greater of $1.00 per share or 337.5 times the payment we make per share of our common stock. Each share of our series A junior participating preferred stock will have 337.5 votes, voting together with our common stock. Finally, in the event of any merger, consolidation or other transaction in which shares of our common stock are exchanged, each share of our Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock will be entitled to receive 337.5 times the amount received per share of our common stock. These rights are protected by customary antidilution provisions. There are no shares of our Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock currently outstanding.

If we offer preferred stock, we will file the terms of the preferred stock with the SEC and the prospectus supplement and/or other offering material relating to that offering will include a description of the specific terms of the offering, including the following specific terms:

 

   

the series, the number of shares offered and the liquidation value of the preferred stock;

 

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the price at which the preferred stock will be issued;

 

   

the dividend rate, the dates on which the dividends will be payable and other terms relating to the payment of dividends on the preferred stock;

 

   

the liquidation preference of the preferred stock;

 

   

the voting rights of the preferred stock;

 

   

whether the preferred stock is redeemable or subject to a sinking fund, and the terms of any such redemption or sinking fund;

 

   

whether the preferred stock is convertible or exchangeable for any other securities, and the terms of any such conversion; and

 

   

any additional rights, preferences, qualifications, limitations and restrictions of the preferred stock.

It is not possible to state the actual effect of the issuance of any shares of preferred stock upon the rights of holders of our common stock until the board of directors determines the specific rights of the holders of the preferred stock. However, these effects might include:

 

   

restricting dividends on the common stock;

 

   

diluting the voting power of the common stock;

 

   

impairing the liquidation rights of the common stock; and

 

   

delaying or preventing a change in control of our company.

Preferred Stock Purchase Rights

We have entered into a rights agreement pursuant to which each outstanding share of our common stock has attached to it one right to purchase shares of our Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock. Each share of common stock that we issue prior to the expiration of the rights agreement will have attached one right. Under circumstances described below, the rights will entitle the holder of the rights to purchase additional shares of our common stock. Unless the context requires otherwise, references in this prospectus to our common stock include the accompanying rights.

Currently, the rights are not exercisable and trade with our common stock. If the rights become exercisable, each right, unless held by a person or group that beneficially owns more than 15% of our outstanding common stock in the aggregate, would currently entitle the holder to purchase  8 / 27 of one one-hundredth of a share of our Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock at a purchase price of $250, subject to adjustment. The rights will only become exercisable if a person or group has acquired, or announced an intention to acquire, 15% or more of our outstanding common stock in the aggregate. Under some circumstances, including the existence of a 15% acquiring party, each holder of a right, other than the acquiring party, will be entitled to purchase, at the right’s then-current exercise price, shares of our common stock having a market value of two times the exercise price. If another corporation acquires us after a party acquires 15% or more of our common stock, then each holder of a right will be entitled to receive the acquiring corporation’s common shares having a market value of two times the exercise price. The rights generally may be redeemed at a price of $.01 until a party acquires 15% or more of our common stock, and after that time may be exchanged for one share of our common stock per right until a party acquires 50% or more of our common stock. The rights will expire on February 23, 2008. The rights do not have voting or dividend rights and, until they become exercisable, have no dilutive effect on our earnings.

Statutory Provisions

Section 180.1150 of the Wisconsin Business Corporation Law provides that the voting power of public Wisconsin corporations such as us held by any person or persons acting as a group in excess of 20% of our voting power is limited to 10% of the full voting power of those shares, unless full voting power of those shares

 

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has been restored pursuant to a vote of shareholders. Sections 180.1140 to 180.1144 of the Wisconsin Business Corporation Law contain some limitations and special voting provisions applicable to specified business combinations involving Wisconsin corporations such as us and a significant shareholder, unless the board of directors of the corporation approves the business combination or the shareholder’s acquisition of shares before these shares are acquired.

Similarly, Section 180.1130 to 180.1133 of the Wisconsin Business Corporation Law contain special voting provisions applicable to some business combinations, unless specified minimum price and procedural requirements are met. Following commencement of a takeover offer, Section 180.1134 of the Wisconsin Business Corporation Law imposes special voting requirements on share repurchases effected at a premium to the market and on asset sales by the corporation, unless, as it relates to the potential sale of assets, the corporation has at least three independent directors and a majority of the independent directors vote not to have the provision apply to the corporation.

 

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DESCRIPTION OF WARRANTS

We may issue warrants for the purchase of debt securities, preferred stock, common stock or other securities. Warrants may be issued independently or together with debt securities, preferred stock or common stock offered by any prospectus supplement and/or other offering material and may be attached to or separate from any such offered securities. Each series of warrants will be issued under a separate warrant agreement to be entered into between us and a bank or trust company, as warrant agent, all as will be set forth in the prospectus supplement and/or other offering material relating to the particular issue of warrants. The warrant agent will act solely as our agent in connection with the warrants and will not assume any obligation or relationship of agency or trust for or with any holders of warrants or beneficial owners of warrants.

The following summary of certain provisions of the warrants does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and is qualified in its entirety by reference to, all provisions of the warrant agreements.

Reference is made to the prospectus supplement and/or other offering material relating to the particular issue of warrants offered pursuant to such prospectus supplement and/or other offering material for the terms of and information relating to such warrants, including, where applicable:

 

   

the designation, aggregate principal amount, currencies, denominations and terms of the series of debt securities purchasable upon exercise of warrants to purchase debt securities and the price at which such debt securities may be purchased upon such exercise;

 

   

the number of shares of common stock purchasable upon the exercise of warrants to purchase common stock and the price at which such number of shares of common stock may be purchased upon such exercise;

 

   

the number of shares and series of preferred stock purchasable upon the exercise of warrants to purchase preferred stock and the price at which such number of shares of such series of preferred stock may be purchased upon such exercise;

 

   

the designation and number of units of other securities purchasable upon the exercise of warrants to purchase other securities and the price at which such number of units of such other securities may be purchased upon such exercise;

 

   

the date on which the right to exercise such warrants shall commence and the date on which such right shall expire;

 

   

U.S. federal income tax consequences applicable to such warrants;

 

   

the amount of warrants outstanding as of the most recent practicable date; and

 

   

any other terms of such warrants.

Warrants will be issued in registered form only. The exercise price for warrants will be subject to adjustment in accordance with the applicable prospectus supplement and/or other offering material.

Each warrant will entitle the holder thereof to purchase such principal amount of debt securities or such number of shares of preferred stock, common stock or other securities at such exercise price as shall in each case be set forth in, or calculable from, the prospectus supplement and/or other offering material relating to the warrants, which exercise price may be subject to adjustment upon the occurrence of certain events as set forth in such prospectus supplement and/or other offering material. After the close of business on the expiration date, or such later date to which such expiration date may be extended by us, unexercised warrants will become void. The place or places where, and the manner in which, warrants may be exercised shall be specified in the prospectus supplement and/or other offering material relating to such warrants.

Prior to the exercise of any warrants to purchase debt securities, preferred stock, common stock or other securities, holders of such warrants will not have any of the rights of holders of debt securities, preferred stock, common stock or other securities, as the case may be, purchasable upon such exercise, including the right to receive payments of principal of, premium, if any, or interest, if any, on the debt securities purchasable upon such exercise or to enforce covenants in the applicable Indenture, or to receive payments of dividends, if any, on the preferred stock, or common stock purchasable upon such exercise, or to exercise any applicable right to vote.

 

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DESCRIPTION OF STOCK PURCHASE CONTRACTS AND STOCK PURCHASE UNITS

We may issue stock purchase contracts, including contracts obligating holders to purchase from us, and obligating us to sell to the holders, a specified number of shares of common stock or other securities at a future date or dates, which we refer to in this prospectus as “stock purchase contracts.” The price per share of the securities and the number of shares of the securities may be fixed at the time the stock purchase contracts are issued or may be determined by reference to a specific formula set forth in the stock purchase contracts. The stock purchase contracts may be issued separately or as part of units consisting of a stock purchase contract and debt securities, preferred securities, warrants, other securities or debt obligations of third parties, including U.S. treasury securities, securing the holders’ obligations to purchase the securities under the stock purchase contracts, which we refer to herein as “stock purchase units.” The stock purchase contracts may require holders to secure their obligations under the stock purchase contracts in a specified manner. The stock purchase contracts also may require us to make periodic payments to the holders of the stock purchase units or vice versa, and those payments may be unsecured or refunded on some basis.

The stock purchase contracts, and, if applicable, collateral or depositary arrangements, relating to the stock purchase contracts or stock purchase units, will be filed with the SEC in connection with the offering of stock purchase contracts or stock purchase units. The prospectus supplement and/or other offering material relating to a particular issue of stock purchase contracts or stock purchase units will describe the terms of those stock purchase contracts or stock purchase units, including the following:

 

   

if applicable, a discussion of material U.S. federal income tax considerations; and

 

   

any other information we think is important about the stock purchase contracts or the stock purchase units.

 

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WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION

We file annual, quarterly and current reports, proxy statements and other information with the SEC. We also filed a registration statement on Form S-3, including exhibits, under the Securities Act of 1933 with respect to the securities offered by this prospectus. This prospectus is a part of the registration statement, but does not contain all of the information included in the registration statement or the exhibits. You may read and copy the registration statement and any other document that we file at the SEC’s public reference room at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington D.C. 20549. You can call the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330 for further information on the operation of the public reference room. You can also find our public filings with the SEC on the internet at a web site maintained by the SEC located at http://www.sec.gov.

We are “incorporating by reference” specified documents that we file with the SEC, which means:

 

   

incorporated documents are considered part of this prospectus;

 

   

we are disclosing important information to you by referring you to those documents; and

 

   

information we file with the SEC will automatically update and supersede information contained in this prospectus.

We incorporate by reference the documents listed below and any future filings we make with the SEC under Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 after the date of this prospectus and before the end of the offering of the securities pursuant to this prospectus:

 

   

our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006, (other than Items 6, 7 and 8);

 

   

our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31 (other than Items 1 and 2 of Part I), June 30 and September 30, 2007;

 

   

our Current Reports on Form 8-K, dated January 31 (other than Item 2.02), February 23, May 23, May 24, July 11, August 2 (as amended on November 13 and other than Items 7.01 and 9.01), August 14, August 21, November 1 and November 13, 2007;

 

   

the description of our common stock contained in our Registration Statement on Form 8-A, dated September 3, 1986, and any amendment or report updating that description; and

 

   

the description of our preferred stock purchase rights contained in our Registration Statement on Form 8-A, dated February 23, 1998 and any amendment or report updating that description.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, information furnished under Items 2.02 and 7.01 of any Current Report on Form 8-K, including the related exhibits under Item 9.01, is not incorporated by reference in this prospectus.

You may request a copy of any of these filings, at no cost, by request directed to us at the following address or telephone number:

Fiserv, Inc.

255 Fiserv Drive

Brookfield, WI 53045

(262) 879-5000

Attention: Secretary

You can also find these filings on our website at www.fiserv.com . We are not incorporating the information on our website other than these filings into this prospectus.

 

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PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION

We may sell our securities, and any selling shareholder may sell shares of our common stock, in any one or more of the following ways from time to time: (i) through agents; (ii) to or through underwriters; (iii) through brokers or dealers; (iv) directly by us or any selling shareholders to purchasers, including through a specific bidding, auction or other process; or (v) through a combination of any of these methods of sale. The applicable prospectus supplement and/or other offering material will contain the terms of the transaction, name or names of any underwriters, dealers, agents and the respective amounts of securities underwritten or purchased by them, the initial public offering price of the securities, and the applicable agent’s commission, dealer’s purchase price or underwriter’s discount. Any selling shareholders, dealers and agents participating in the distribution of the securities may be deemed to be underwriters, and compensation received by them on resale of the securities may be deemed to be underwriting discounts. Additionally, because selling shareholders may be deemed to be “underwriters” within the meaning of Section 2(11) of the Securities Act, selling shareholders may be subject to the prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act.

Any initial offering price, dealer purchase price, discount or commission may be changed from time to time.

The securities may be distributed from time to time in one or more transactions, at negotiated prices, at a fixed price or fixed prices (that may be subject to change), at market prices prevailing at the time of sale, at various prices determined at the time of sale or at prices related to prevailing market prices.

Offers to purchase securities may be solicited directly by us or any selling shareholder or by agents designated by us from time to time. Any such agent may be deemed to be an underwriter, as that term is defined in the Securities Act, of the securities so offered and sold.

If underwriters are utilized in the sale of any securities in respect of which this prospectus is being delivered, such securities will be acquired by the underwriters for their own account and may be resold from time to time in one or more transactions, including negotiated transactions, at fixed public offering prices or at varying prices determined by the underwriters at the time of sale. Securities may be offered to the public either through underwriting syndicates represented by managing underwriters or directly by one or more underwriters. If any underwriter or underwriters are utilized in the sale of securities, unless otherwise indicated in the applicable prospectus supplement and/or other offering material, the obligations of the underwriters are subject to certain conditions precedent, and that the underwriters will be obligated to purchase all such securities if any are purchased.

If a dealer is utilized in the sale of the securities in respect of which this prospectus is delivered, we will sell such securities, and any selling shareholder will sell shares of our common stock to the dealer, as principal. The dealer may then resell such securities to the public at varying prices to be determined by such dealer at the time of resale. Transactions through brokers or dealers may include block trades in which brokers or dealers will attempt to sell shares as agent but may position and resell as principal to facilitate the transaction or in crosses, in which the same broker or dealer acts as agent on both sides of the trade. Any such dealer may be deemed to be an underwriter, as such term is defined in the Securities Act, of the securities so offered and sold. In addition, any selling shareholder may sell shares of our common stock in ordinary brokerage transactions or in transactions in which a broker solicits purchases.

Offers to purchase securities may be solicited directly by us or any selling shareholder and the sale thereof may be made by us or any selling shareholder directly to institutional investors or others, who may be deemed to be underwriters within the meaning of the Securities Act with respect to any resale thereof.

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Act provided they meet the criteria and conform to the requirements of that rule, Section 4(1) of the Securities Act or other applicable exemptions, regardless of whether the securities are covered by the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part.

If so indicated in the applicable prospectus supplement and/or other offering material, we or any selling shareholder may authorize agents and underwriters to solicit offers by certain institutions to purchase securities from us or any selling shareholder at the public offering price set forth in the applicable prospectus supplement and/or other offering material pursuant to delayed delivery contracts providing for payment and delivery on the date or dates stated in the applicable prospectus supplement and/or other offering material. Such delayed delivery contracts will be subject only to those conditions set forth in the applicable prospectus supplement and/or other offering material.

Agents, underwriters and dealers may be entitled under relevant agreements with us or any selling shareholder to indemnification by us against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act, or to contribution with respect to payments which such agents, underwriters and dealers may be required to make in respect thereof. The terms and conditions of any indemnification or contribution will be described in the applicable prospectus supplement and/or other offering material. We may pay all expenses incurred with respect to the registration of the shares of common stock owned by any selling shareholders, other than underwriting fees, discounts or commissions, which will be borne by the selling shareholders.

We or any selling shareholder may also sell shares of our common stock through various arrangements involving mandatorily or optionally exchangeable securities, and this prospectus may be delivered in connection with those sales.

We or any selling shareholder may enter into derivative, sale or forward sale transactions with third parties, or sell securities not covered by this prospectus to third parties in privately negotiated transactions. If the applicable prospectus supplement and/or other offering material indicates, in connection with those transactions, the third parties may sell securities covered by this prospectus and the applicable prospectus supplement and/or other offering material, including in short sale transactions and by issuing securities not covered by this prospectus but convertible into, or exchangeable for or representing beneficial interests in such securities covered by this prospectus, or the return of which is derived in whole or in part from the value of such securities. The third parties may use securities received under derivative, sale or forward sale transactions, or securities pledged by us or any selling shareholder or borrowed from us, any selling shareholder or others to settle those sales or to close out any related open borrowings of stock, and may use securities received from us or any selling shareholder in settlement of those transactions to close out any related open borrowings of stock. The third party in such sale transactions will be an underwriter and will be identified in the applicable prospectus supplement (or a post-effective amendment) and/or other offering material.

Additionally, any selling shareholder may engage in hedging transactions with broker-dealers in connection with distributions of shares or otherwise. In those transactions, broker-dealers may engage in short sales of shares in the course of hedging the positions they assume with such selling shareholder. Any selling shareholder also may sell shares short and redeliver shares to close out such short positions. Any selling shareholder may also enter into option or other transactions with broker-dealers which require the delivery of shares to the broker-dealer. The broker-dealer may then resell or otherwise transfer such shares pursuant to this prospectus. Any selling shareholder also may loan or pledge shares, and the borrower or pledgee may sell or otherwise transfer the shares so loaned or pledged pursuant to this prospectus. Such borrower or pledgee also may transfer those shares to investors in our securities or the selling shareholder’s securities or in connection with the offering of other securities not covered by this prospectus.

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both. Compensation as to a particular underwriter, broker-dealer or agent might be in excess of customary commissions and will be in amounts to be negotiated in connection with transactions involving shares. In effecting sales, broker-dealers engaged by us or any selling shareholder may arrange for other broker-dealers to participate in the resales.

Each series of securities will be a new issue and, other than the common stock, which is listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, will have no established trading market. We may elect to list any series of securities on an exchange, and in the case of the common stock, on any additional exchange, but, unless otherwise specified in the applicable prospectus supplement and/or other offering material, we shall not be obligated to do so. No assurance can be given as to the liquidity of the trading market for any of the securities.

Agents, underwriters and dealers may engage in transactions with, or perform services for us or any selling shareholder and our respective subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business.

Any underwriter may engage in overallotment, stabilizing transactions, short covering transactions and penalty bids in accordance with Regulation M under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Overallotment involves sales in excess of the offering size, which create a short position. Stabilizing transactions permit bids to purchase the underlying security so long as the stabilizing bids do not exceed a specified maximum. Short covering transactions involve purchases of the securities in the open market after the distribution is completed to cover short positions. Penalty bids permit the underwriters to reclaim a selling concession from a dealer when the securities originally sold by the dealer are purchased in a covering transaction to cover short positions. Those activities may cause the price of the securities to be higher than it would otherwise be. If commenced, the underwriters may discontinue any of the activities at any time. An underwriter may carry out these transactions on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, in the over-the-counter market or otherwise.

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LEGAL MATTERS

The validity of the securities offered by this prospectus will be passed upon for us by Foley & Lardner LLP. The validity of the securities offered by this prospectus will be passed upon for any underwriters or agents by counsel named in the applicable prospectus supplement. The opinions of Foley & Lardner LLP and counsel for any underwriters or agents may be conditioned upon and may be subject to assumptions regarding future action required to be taken by us and any underwriters, dealers or agents in connection with the issuance of any securities. The opinions of Foley & Lardner LLP and counsel for any underwriters or agents may be subject to other conditions and assumptions, as indicated in the prospectus supplement.

EXPERTS

The consolidated financial statements and financial statement schedule incorporated in this prospectus by reference from the Current Report on Form 8-K of Fiserv, Inc. filed on November 13, 2007, and management’s report on the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting incorporated in this prospectus by reference to the Annual Report on Form 10-K of Fiserv, Inc. for the year ended December 31, 2006 have been audited by Deloitte & Touche LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, as stated in their reports, which are incorporated herein by reference (which reports (1) express an unqualified opinion on the financial statements and financial statement schedule and include explanatory paragraphs related to (i) the adoption of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123R, Share-Based Payment , by Fiserv, Inc. on January 1, 2006, (ii) retrospectively adjusting for discontinued operations and (iii) the condensed consolidating financial information associated with subsidiary guarantees, (2) express an unqualified opinion on management’s assessment regarding the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, and (3) express an unqualified opinion on the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting) and have been so incorporated in reliance upon the reports of such firm given upon their authority as experts in accounting and auditing.

The consolidated financial statements of CheckFree Corporation for the year ended June 30, 2007 incorporated in this prospectus by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K of Fiserv, Inc., have been audited by Deloitte & Touche LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, as stated in their report, which is incorporated herein by reference (which report on the consolidated financial statements expresses an unqualified opinion on the consolidated financial statements and includes an explanatory paragraph relating to the adoption of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123R, Share-Based Payment , by CheckFree Corporation on July 1, 2005, as described in Note 1) and have been so incorporated in reliance upon the report of such firm given upon their authority as experts in accounting and auditing.

 

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PART II

INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

 

Item 14. Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution.

The aggregate estimated expenses, other than underwriting discounts and commissions, in connection with the sale of the securities being registered hereby are currently anticipated to be as follows (all amounts are estimated). All expenses of the offering will be paid by Fiserv, Inc. (the “Company”).

 

     Amount

Securities and Exchange Commission registration fee

   $ (1)

Printing expenses

     (2)

Legal fees and expenses

     (2)

Accounting fees and expenses

     (2)

Miscellaneous (including any applicable listing fees, rating agency fees, trustee and transfer agent’s fees and expenses)

     (2)
      

Total

   $  
      

(1) Deferred in accordance with Rules 456(b) and 457(r) under the Securities Act of 1933.
(2) The amount of securities and number of offerings are indeterminable, and the expenses cannot be estimated at this time.

 

Item 15. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

Pursuant to the provisions of the Wisconsin Business Corporation Law, directors and officers of the Company are entitled to mandatory indemnification from the Company against certain liabilities (which may include liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933) and expenses: (i) to the extent such officers or directors are successful in the defense of a proceeding; and (ii) in proceedings in which the director or officer is not successful in defense thereof, unless it is determined that the director or officer breached or failed to perform his or her duties to the Company and such breach or failure constituted (a) a willful failure to deal fairly with the Company or its shareholders in connection with a matter in which the director or officer had a material conflict of interest; (b) a violation of criminal law unless the director or officer had a reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was lawful or had no reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful; (c) a transaction from which the director or officer derived an improper personal profit; or (d) willful misconduct. Additionally, under the Wisconsin Business Corporation Law, directors of the Company are not subject tot personal liability to the Company, its shareholders or any person asserting rights on behalf thereof, for certain breaches or failures to perform any duty resulting solely from their status as directors, except in circumstances paralleling those outlined in (a) through (d) above.

The Company’s by-laws provide for indemnification and advancement of expenses of officers and directors to the fullest extent provided by the Wisconsin Business Corporation Law.

The indemnification provided by the Wisconsin Business Corporation Law and the Company’s by-laws is not exclusive of any other rights to which a director or officer of the Company may be entitled.

The Company maintains an insurance policy, which indemnifies its officers and directors against certain liabilities.

 

Item 16. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules.

The exhibits listed in the accompanying Exhibit Index are filed or incorporated by reference as part of this Registration Statement.

 

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Item 17. Undertakings.

The undersigned Registrants hereby undertake:

(a) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

(i) To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;

(ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 20 percent change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective registration statement; and

(iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement;

provided, however , that paragraphs (i), (ii) and (iii) do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission (“Commission”) by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement, or is contained in a form of prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) that is part of the registration statement.

(b) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

(c) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

(d) That, for the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser:

(i) Each prospectus filed by a Registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3) shall be deemed to be part of the registration statement as of the date the filed prospectus was deemed part of and included in the registration statement; and

(ii) Each prospectus required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(2), (b)(5) or (b)(7) as part of a registration statement in reliance on Rule 430B relating to an offering made pursuant to Rule 415(a)(1)(i), (vii) or (x) for the purpose of providing the information required by Section 10(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the earlier of the date such form of prospectus is first used after effectiveness or the date of the first contract of sale of securities in the offering described in the prospectus. As provided in Rule 430B, for liability purposes of the issuer and any person that is at that date an underwriter, such date shall be deemed to be a new effective date of the registration statement relating to the securities in the registration statement to which the prospectus relates, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. Provided, however , that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such effective date, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such effective date.

 

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(e) That, for the purpose of determining liability of a Registrant under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser in the initial distribution of the securities, each undersigned Registrant undertakes that in a primary offering of securities of an undersigned Registrant pursuant to this registration statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to the purchaser, if the securities are offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, the undersigned Registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities to such purchaser:

(i) Any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of an undersigned Registrant relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424;

(ii) Any free writing prospectus relating to the offering prepared by or on behalf of an undersigned Registrant or used or referred to by an undersigned Registrant;

(iii) The portion of any other free writing prospectus relating to the offering containing material information about an undersigned Registrant or its securities provided by or on behalf of an undersigned Registrant; and

(iv) Any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by an undersigned Registrant to the purchaser.

The undersigned Registrants hereby undertake that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of any Registrant’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of each Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, each Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by a Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of a Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, that Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the issue has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

The undersigned Registrants hereby undertake to file an application for the purpose of determining the eligibility of the trustee to act under subsection (a) of Section 310 of the Trust Indenture Act in accordance with the rules and regulations prescribed by the Commission under Section 305(b)(2) of the Trust Indenture Act.

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Brookfield, State of Wisconsin, on November 8, 2007.

 

FISERV, INC.
By:   /s/ Jeffery W. Yabuki
 

Jeffery W. Yabuki

President and Chief Executive Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities set forth below on November 8, 2007.

 

Signature

  

Title

/s/ Jeffery W. Yabuki

Jeffery W. Yabuki

  

President, Chief Executive Officer and Director

(Principal Executive Officer)

*

Donald F. Dillon

   Chairman of the Board and Director

/s/ Thomas J. Hirsch

Thomas J. Hirsch

  

Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer,

Treasurer and Assistant Secretary (Principal Financial

and Accounting Officer)

*

Daniel P. Kearney

   Director

*

Gerald J. Levy

   Director

*

Glenn M. Renwick

   Director

*

Kim M. Robak

   Director

*

Doyle R. Simons

   Director

*

Thomas C. Wertheimer

   Director

 

*By:   /s/ Jeffery W. Yabuki
 

Jeffery W. Yabuki

Attorney-in-fact

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Brookfield, State of Wisconsin, on November 8, 2007.

 

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, INC.
By:   /s/ Thomas M. Cypher
 

Thomas M. Cypher

President, Chief Executive Officer and

Chief Operating Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities set forth below on November 8, 2007.

 

Signature

  

Title

*

Donald F. Dillon

   Chairman of the Board and Director

/s/ Thomas M. Cypher

Thomas M. Cypher

  

President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating

Officer (Principal Executive Officer)

/s/ Timothy D. Conzemius

Timothy D. Conzemius

  

Secretary and Treasurer (Principal Financial and

Accounting Officer)

 

*By:   /s/ Charles W. Sprague
 

Charles W. Sprague

Attorney-in-fact

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Brookfield, State of Wisconsin, on November 8, 2007.

 

PRECISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS, INC.
By:   /s/ Mark E. Blankespoor
 

Mark E. Blankespoor

President

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities set forth below on November 8, 2007.

 

Signature

  

Title

*

Donald F. Dillon

   Director

/s/ Mark E. Blankespoor

Mark E. Blankespoor

   President (Principal Executive Officer)

/s/ Cathy M. Wencil

Cathy M. Wencil

  

Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal

Financial and Accounting Officer)

 

*By:   /s/ Charles W. Sprague
 

Charles W. Sprague

Attorney-in-fact

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Brookfield, State of Wisconsin, on November 8, 2007.

 

ITI OF NEBRASKA, INC.
By:   /s/ Thomas M. Cypher
 

Thomas M. Cypher

President, Chief Executive Officer and

Chief Operating Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities set forth below on November 8, 2007.

 

Signature

  

Title

*

Donald F. Dillon

   Chairman of the Board and Director

/s/ Thomas M. Cypher

Thomas M. Cypher

   President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer (Principal Executive Officer)

/s/ Timothy D. Conzemius

Timothy D. Conzemius

   Secretary and Treasurer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

 

*By:   /s/ Charles W. Sprague
 

Charles W. Sprague

Attorney-in-fact

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Brookfield, State of Wisconsin, on November 8, 2007.

 

FISERV SOLUTIONS, INC.
By:    /s/ Jeffery W. Yabuki
 

Jeffery W. Yabuki

President and Chief Executive Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities set forth below on November 8, 2007.

 

Signature

  

Title

/s/ Jeffery W. Yabuki

Jeffery W. Yabuki

   President, Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal Executive Officer)

/s/ Norman J. Balthasar

Norman J. Balthasar

   Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Director

/s/ Thomas J. Hirsch

Thomas J. Hirsch

   Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Assistant Secretary and Director (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Brookfield, State of Wisconsin, on November 8, 2007.

 

BILLMATRIX CORPORATION
By:    /s/ Scott B. Walker
 

Scott B. Walker

President and Chief Executive Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities set forth below on November 8, 2007.

 

Signature

  

Title

/s/ Jeffery W. Yabuki

Jeffery W. Yabuki

   Chairman of the Board and Director

/s/ Scott B. Walker

Scott B. Walker

   President and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)

/s/ Jon W. Debbink

Jon W. Debbink

   Vice President (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Brookfield, State of Wisconsin, on November 8, 2007.

 

BMC GOVERNMENT SERVICES, INC.
By:   /s/ Scott B. Walker
 

Scott B. Walker

President and Chief Executive Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities set forth below on November 8, 2007.

 

Signature

  

Title

/s/ Jeffery W. Yabuki

 

Jeffery W. Yabuki

   Chairman of the Board and Director

/s/ Scott B. Walker

 

Scott B. Walker

   President and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)

/s/ Jon W. Debbink

 

Jon W. Debbink

   Vice President (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Brookfield, State of Wisconsin, on November 8, 2007.

 

BMC PROCESSING, INC.
By:   /s/ Scott B. Walker
 

Scott B. Walker

President and Chief Executive Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities set forth below on November 8, 2007.

 

Signature

  

Title

/s/ Jeffery W. Yabuki

 

Jeffery W. Yabuki

   Chairman of the Board and Director

/s/ Scott B. Walker

 

Scott B. Walker

   President and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)

/s/ Jon W. Debbink

 

Jon W. Debbink

   Vice President (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Brookfield, State of Wisconsin, on November 8, 2007.

 

BMC RESOURCES, INC.
By:   /s/ Scott B. Walker
 

Scott B. Walker

President and Chief Executive Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities set forth below on November 8, 2007.

 

Signature

  

Title

/s/ Jeffery W. Yabuki

 

Jeffery W. Yabuki

   Chairman of the Board and Director

/s/ Scott B. Walker

 

Scott B. Walker

   President and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)

/s/ Jon W. Debbink

 

Jon W. Debbink

   Vice President (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Brookfield, State of Wisconsin, on November 8, 2007.

 

BMC U.S., INC.
By:   /s/ Scott B. Walker
 

Scott B. Walker

President and Chief Executive Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities set forth below on November 8, 2007.

 

Signature

  

Title

/s/ Jeffery W. Yabuki

 

Jeffery W. Yabuki

   Chairman of the Board and Director

/s/ Scott B. Walker

 

Scott B. Walker

   President and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)

/s/ Jon W. Debbink

 

Jon W. Debbink

   Vice President (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Brookfield, State of Wisconsin, on November 8, 2007.

 

TELEPAY, INC.
By:   /s/ Scott B. Walker
 

Scott B. Walker

President and Chief Executive Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities set forth below on November 8, 2007.

 

Signature

  

Title

/s/ Jeffery W. Yabuki

 

Jeffery W. Yabuki

   Chairman of the Board and Director

/s/ Scott B. Walker

 

Scott B. Walker

   President and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)

/s/ Jon W. Debbink

 

Jon W. Debbink

   Vice President (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Brookfield, State of Wisconsin, on November 8, 2007.

 

DEL MAR DATATRAC, INC.
By:   /s/ John R. Tenuta
 

John R. Tenuta

President

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities set forth below on November 8, 2007.

 

Signature

  

Title

/s/ Jeffery W. Yabuki

 

Jeffery W. Yabuki

   Chairman of the Board and Director

/s/ Scott B. Walker

 

Scott B. Walker

   President (Principal Executive Officer)

/s/ Jon W. Debbink

 

Jon W. Debbink

   Vice President (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Brookfield, State of Wisconsin, on November 8, 2007.

 

EPSIIA CORPORATION
By:   /s/ Lorri E. Mehaffey
 

Lorri E. Mehaffey

President

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities set forth below on November 8, 2007.

 

Signature

  

Title

/s/ Jeffery W. Yabuki

 

   Chairman of the Board and Director

Jeffery W. Yabuki

  

/s/ Lorri E. Mehaffey

 

   President (Principal Executive Officer)

Lorri E. Mehaffey

  

/s/ Jon W. Debbink

 

   Vice President (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

Jon W. Debbink

  

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Brookfield, State of Wisconsin, on November 8, 2007.

 

FISERV FULFILLMENT SERVICES, INC.
By:   /s/ Richard A. Snedden
 

Richard A. Snedden

President

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities set forth below on November 8, 2007.

 

Signature

  

Title

/s/ Jeffery W. Yabuki

 

   Chairman of the Board and Director

Jeffery W. Yabuki

  

/s/ Richard A. Snedden

 

   President (Principal Executive Officer)

Richard A. Snedden

  

/s/ Jeffrey C. Ellis

 

   Vice President (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

Jeffrey C. Ellis

  

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Brookfield, State of Wisconsin, on November 8, 2007.

 

FISERV FULFILLMENT SERVICES, INC.
By:   /s/ Richard A. Snedden
 

Richard A. Snedden

President and Secretary

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities set forth below on November 8, 2007.

 

Signature

  

Title

/s/ Richard A. Snedden

Richard A. Snedden

   President, Secretary and Director (Principal Executive, Financial and Accounting Officer)

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Brookfield, State of Wisconsin, on November 8, 2007.

 

FISERV FULFILLMENT SERVICES OF ALABAMA, L.L.C.
By:   /s/ Richard A. Snedden
 

Richard A. Snedden

Manager

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities set forth below on November 8, 2007.

 

Signature

  

Title

/s/ Richard A. Snedden

Richard A. Snedden

   Manager (Principal Executive, Financial and Accounting Officer)

/s/ William T. Stevens

William T. Stevens

   Manager

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Brookfield, State of Wisconsin, on November 8, 2007.

 

FISERV FULFILLMENT SERVICES TITLE AGENCY, INC.
By:   /s/ Richard A. Snedden
 

Richard A. Snedden

President and Chief Executive Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities set forth below on November 8, 2007.

 

Signature

  

Title

/s/ Richard A. Snedden

Richard A. Snedden

   President, Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal Executive Officer)

/s/ Thomas J. Hirsch

Thomas J. Hirsch

   Vice President (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Brookfield, State of Wisconsin, on November 8, 2007.

 

FISERV FULFILLMENT SERVICES SOUTH, INC.
By:   /s/ Richard A. Snedden
 

Richard A. Snedden

President and Chief Executive Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities set forth below on November 8, 2007.

 

Signature

  

Title

/s/ Jeffery W. Yabuki

Jeffery W. Yabuki

   Chairman of the Board and Director

/s/ Richard A. Snedden

Richard A. Snedden

   President and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)

/s/ Jeffrey C. Ellis

Jeffrey C. Ellis

   Vice President (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Brookfield, State of Wisconsin, on November 8, 2007.

 

INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
By:   /s/ Jeffery W. Yabuki
 

Jeffery W. Yabuki

Chairman of the Board and Director

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities set forth below on November 8, 2007.

 

Signature

  

Title

/s/ Jeffery W. Yabuki

 

Jeffery W. Yabuki

   Chairman of the Board and Director (Principal Executive Officer)

/s/ Jon W. Debbink

 

Jon W. Debbink

   Vice President and Treasurer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Brookfield, State of Wisconsin, on November 8, 2007.

 

JEROME GROUP, L.L.C.
By:   /s/ Ken Brown
 

Ken Brown

President

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities set forth below on November 8, 2007.

 

Signature

  

Title

/s/ Jeffery W. Yabuki

 

Jeffery W. Yabuki

   Manager

/s/ Ken Brown

 

Ken Brown

   President (Principal Executive Officer)

/s/ Jon W. Debbink

 

Jon W. Debbink

   Vice President (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit
Number
  

Document Description

(1)    Form of Underwriting Agreement.*
(4.1)    Restated Articles of Incorporation (filed as Exhibit 3.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on May 23, 2007 and incorporated herein by reference).
(4.2)    Amended and Restated By-laws (filed as Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on August 16, 2007 and incorporated herein by reference).
(4.3)    Shareholder Rights Agreement (filed as Exhibit 4 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on February 24, 1998 and incorporated herein by reference).
(4.4)    First Amendment to Shareholder Rights Agreement (filed as Exhibit 4.3 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed on April 7, 2000 and incorporated herein by reference (Reg. No. 333-34310)).
(4.5)    Second Amendment to Shareholder Rights Agreement (filed as Exhibit 4.6 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on February 27, 2001 and incorporated herein by reference).
(4.6)    Amendment No. 1 to Credit Agreement, dated November 9, 2007, among Fiserv, Inc. and the financial institutions parties thereto (filed as Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on November 13, 2007 and incorporated herein by reference).
(4.7)    Loan Agreement, dated as of November 9, 2007, among Fiserv, Inc. and the financial institutions parties thereto (filed as Exhibit 4.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on November 13, 2007 and incorporated herein by reference).
(4.8)    Form of Indenture by and among Fiserv, Inc., the guarantors named therein and U.S. Bank National Association.
(4.9)    Form of Senior Debt Securities.*
(4.10)    Form of Warrant.*
(4.11)    Form of Warrant Agreement.*
(4.12)    Form of Stock Purchase Contract.*
   Pursuant to Item 601(b)(4)(iii) of Regulation S-K, the Company agrees to furnish to the Securities and Exchange Commission, upon request, any instrument defining the rights of holders of long-term debt that is not filed as an exhibit to this Registration Statement.
(5)    Opinion of Foley & Lardner LLP (including consent of counsel).
(12)    Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges.
(23.1)    Consent of Foley & Lardner LLP (filed as part of Exhibit (5)).
(23.2)    Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP with respect to Fiserv, Inc.
(23.3)    Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP with respect to CheckFree Corporation.
(24.1)    Powers of Attorney of Directors of Fiserv, Inc.
(24.2)    Power of Attorney of Donald F. Dillon.
(25)    Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility of Trustee, dated as of November 8, 2007.
(99)    CheckFree Corporation Form 10-K and Form 10-Q Excerpts.

* To be filed by amendment or under subsequent Current Report on Form 8-K.

Exhibit 4.8

 


FISERV, INC.,

AS ISSUER,

ANY GUARANTORS PARTY HERETO,

AND

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

AS TRUSTEE,

INDENTURE

DATED AS OF                     , 2007

DEBT SECURITIES

 



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ARTICLE ONE DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION

   1

Section 101.

  

Definitions

   1

Section 102.

  

Compliance Certificates and Opinions

   8

Section 103.

  

Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee

   8

Section 104.

  

Acts of Holders; Record Dates

   9

Section 105.

  

Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company

   11

Section 106.

  

Notice to Holders; Waiver

   11

Section 107.

  

Conflict with Trust Indenture Act

   11

Section 108.

  

Effect of Headings and Table of Contents

   12

Section 109.

  

Successors and Assigns

   12

Section 110.

  

Separability Clause

   12

Section 111.

  

Benefits of Indenture

   12

Section 112.

  

Governing Law

   12

Section 113.

  

Legal Holidays

   12

Section 114.

  

Indenture and Securities Solely Corporate Obligations

   12

Section 115.

  

Indenture May be Executed in Counterparts

   13

Section 116.

  

Obligation to Disclose Beneficial Ownership of Securities

   13

Section 117.

  

Acceptance of Trust

   13

ARTICLE TWO SECURITY FORMS

   13

Section 201.

  

Forms Generally

   13

Section 202.

  

Form of Face of Security

   14

Section 203.

  

Form of Reverse of Security

   15

Section 204.

  

Form of Legend for Global Securities

   20

Section 205.

  

Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication

   20

Section 206.

  

Form of Conversion Notice

   21

ARTICLE THREE THE SECURITIES

   22

Section 301.

  

Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series

   22

Section 302.

  

Denominations

   25

Section 303.

  

Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating

   25

Section 304.

  

Temporary Securities

   27

Section 305.

  

Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange

   27

Section 306.

  

Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities

   29

Section 307.

  

Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved

   30

Section 308.

  

Persons Deemed Owners

   31

Section 309.

  

Cancellation

   32

Section 310.

  

Computation of Interest

   32

Section 311.

  

CUSIP Numbers

   32

ARTICLE FOUR SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

   33

Section 401.

  

Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture

   33

 

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Section 402.

  

Application of Trust Money

   34

Section 403.

  

Repayment to the Company

   34

ARTICLE FIVE REMEDIES

   34

Section 501.

  

Events of Default

   34

Section 502.

  

Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment

   36

Section 503.

  

Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee

   37

Section 504.

  

Trustee May File Proofs of Claim

   37

Section 505.

  

Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities

   38

Section 506.

  

Application of Money Collected

   38

Section 507.

  

Limitation on Suits

   38

Section 508.

  

Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest and to Convert

   39

Section 509.

  

Restoration of Rights and Remedies

   39

Section 510.

  

Rights and Remedies Cumulative

   39

Section 511.

  

Delay or Omission Not Waiver

   39

Section 512.

  

Control by Holders

   40

Section 513.

  

Waiver of Past Defaults

   40

Section 514.

  

Undertaking for Costs

   40

Section 515.

  

Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws

   41

ARTICLE SIX THE TRUSTEE

   41

Section 601.

  

Certain Duties and Responsibilities

   41

Section 602.

  

Notice of Defaults

   41

Section 603.

  

Certain Rights of Trustee

   42

Section 604.

  

Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities

   43

Section 605.

  

May Hold Securities and Act as Trustee Under Other Indentures

   43

Section 606.

  

Money Held in Trust

   43

Section 607.

  

Compensation and Reimbursement

   43

Section 608.

  

Conflicting Interests

   44

Section 609.

  

Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility

   44

Section 610.

  

Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor

   45

Section 611.

  

Acceptance of Appointment by Successor

   46

Section 612.

  

Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business

   47

Section 613.

  

Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company

   47

Section 614.

  

Appointment of Authenticating Agent

   47

ARTICLE SEVEN HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY

   49

Section 701.

  

Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders

   49

Section 702.

  

Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders

   49

Section 703.

  

Reports by Trustee

   50

Section 704.

  

Reports by Company

   50

 

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ARTICLE EIGHT CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE

   50

Section 801.

  

Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms

   50

Section 802.

  

Successor Substituted

   51

ARTICLE NINE SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

   51

Section 901.

  

Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders

   51

Section 902.

  

Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders

   53

Section 903.

  

Execution of Supplemental Indentures

   54

Section 904.

  

Effect of Supplemental Indentures

   55

Section 905.

  

Conformity with Trust Indenture Act

   55

Section 906.

  

Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures

   55

ARTICLE TEN COVENANTS

   55

Section 1001.

  

Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest

   55

Section 1002.

  

Maintenance of Office or Agency

   55

Section 1003.

  

Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust

   56

Section 1004.

  

Statement by Officers as to Default

   57

Section 1005.

  

Existence

   57

Section 1006.

  

Payment of Taxes and Other Claims

   57

Section 1007.

  

Calculation of Original Issue Discount

   57

ARTICLE ELEVEN REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES

   58

Section 1101.

  

Applicability of Article

   58

Section 1102.

  

Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee

   58

Section 1103.

  

Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed

   58

Section 1104.

  

Notice of Redemption

   59

Section 1105.

  

Deposit of Redemption Price

   60

Section 1106.

  

Securities Payable on Redemption Date

   60

Section 1107.

  

Securities Redeemed in Part

   61

ARTICLE TWELVE SINKING FUNDS

   61

Section 1201.

  

Applicability of Article

   61

Section 1202.

  

Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities

   61

Section 1203.

  

Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund

   62

ARTICLE THIRTEEN DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE

   62

Section 1301.

  

[Intentionally Omitted]

   62

Section 1302.

  

Defeasance and Discharge

   62

Section 1303.

  

Covenant Defeasance

   63

Section 1304.

  

Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance

   63

Section 1305.

  

Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to be Held in Trust; Miscellaneous Provisions

   65

Section 1306.

  

Reinstatement

   65

ARTICLE FOURTEEN CONVERSION AND EXCHANGE OF SECURITIES

   66

Section 1401.

  

Applicability of Article

   66

 

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Section 1402.

  

Exercise of Conversion and Exchange Privilege

   66

Section 1403.

  

No Fractional Shares

   67

Section 1404.

  

Adjustment of Conversion and Exchange Price

   68

Section 1405.

  

Notice of Certain Corporate Actions

   68

Section 1406.

  

Reservation of Shares of Common Stock

   69

Section 1407.

  

Payment of Certain Taxes Upon Conversion and Exchange

   69

Section 1408.

  

Nonassessability

   69

Section 1409.

  

Provision in Case of Consolidation, Merger or Sale of Assets

   69

Section 1410.

  

Duties of Trustee Regarding Conversion and Exchange

   70

Section 1411.

  

Repayment of Certain Funds Upon Conversion and Exchange

   71

ARTICLE FIFTEEN GUARANTEE

   71

Section 1501.

  

Unconditional Guarantee

   71

Section 1502.

  

Execution and Delivery of Guarantee

   73

Section 1503.

  

Limitation on Guarantors’ Liability

   73

Section 1504.

  

Release of Guarantors from Guarantee

   74

Section 1505.

  

Guarantor Contribution

   74

Notation of Guarantee – Annex A

 

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Fiserv, Inc.

Certain Sections of this Indenture relating to Sections 310

through 318, inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939:

 

Trust Indenture Act Section

       

Indenture Section

§310 (a)(1)

      609

(a)(2)

      609

(a)(3)

      Not Applicable

(a)(4)

      Not Applicable

(b)

      608, 610

§311 (a)

      613

(b)

      613

§312 (a)

      701, 702

(b)

      702

(c)

      702

§313 (a)

      703

(b)

      703

(c)

      703

(d)

      703

§314 (a)

      704

(a)(4)

      101, 1004

(b)

      Not Applicable

(c)(1)

      102

(c)(2)

      102

(c)(3)

      Not Applicable

(d)

      Not Applicable

(e)

      102

§315 (a)

      601

(b)

      602

(c)

      601

(d)

      601

(e)

      514

§316 (a)

      101

(a)(1)(A)

      502, 512

(a)(1)(B)

      513

(a)(2)

      Not Applicable

(b)

      508

(c)

      104

§317 (a)(1)

      503

(a)(2)

      504

(b)

      1003

§318 (a)

      107

NOTE:    This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part of the Indenture.

 

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INDENTURE, dated as of ________, 2007, among Fiserv, Inc., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Wisconsin (herein called the “ Company ”), having its principal executive office at 255 Fiserv, Drive, Brookfield, Wisconsin 53045, any Guarantors (as defined herein) party hereto, and U.S. Bank National Association, a national banking association, as Trustee (herein called the “ Trustee ”).

RECITALS OF THE COMPANY AND GUARANTORS

The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its unsecured debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (herein called the “Securities”), to be issued in one or more series, which Securities may be guaranteed by each of the Guarantors, as provided in this Indenture.

All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the Company and any Guarantors, in accordance with its terms, have been done.

NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:

For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Securities by the Holders thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities or of series thereof appertaining, as follows:

ARTICLE ONE

DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION

Section 101. Definitions.

For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to them in this Article and include the plural as well as the singular;

(2) all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them therein;

(3) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States, and, except as otherwise herein expressly provided, the term “generally accepted accounting principles” with respect to any computation required or permitted hereunder shall mean such accounting principles as are generally accepted in the United States at the date of this instrument;

(4) unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to an “Article” or a “Section” refers to an Article or a Section, as the case may be, of this Indenture; and


(5) the words “herein,” “hereof,” “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision.

Act ,” when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified in Section 104.

Affiliate ” of any specified Person means any other Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition, “control” when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing.

Authenticating Agent ” means any Person authorized by the Trustee pursuant to Section 614 to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities of one or more series.

Board of Directors ” means either the Board of Directors of the Company or any duly authorized committee empowered by that Board to act with respect to this Indenture.

Board Resolution ” means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors or any duly authorized committee empowered by that Board and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification, and delivered to the Trustee.

Business Day ,” when used with respect to any Place of Payment, means each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a day on which banking institutions in that Place of Payment are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close, except as may otherwise be provided in the form of Securities of any particular series pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture.

Commission ” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, from time to time constituted, created under the Exchange Act, or, if at any time after the execution of this instrument such Commission is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the body performing such duties at such time.

Common Stock ” includes any stock of any class of the Company which has no preference in respect of dividends or of amounts payable in the event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Company and which is not subject to redemption by the Company; provided , however , subject to the provisions of Section 1409, shares issuable upon conversion of Securities shall include only shares of the class designated as Common Stock of the Company at the date of this Indenture or shares of any class or classes resulting from any reclassification or reclassifications thereof and which have no preference in respect of dividends or of amounts payable in the event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Company and which are not subject to redemption by the Company; provided , further , that if at any time there shall be more than one such resulting class, the shares of each such class then so issuable shall be substantially in the proportion which the total number of shares of such class resulting from all such reclassifications bears to the total number of shares of all such classes resulting from all such reclassifications.

 

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Company ” means the corporation named as the “Company” in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor Person shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Company” means such successor Person.

Company Request ” or “ Company Order ” means a written request or order signed in the name of the Company by (a) its Chairman of the Board, its Chief Executive Officer, its President or a Vice President, its Chief Financial Officer, its Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer, and (b) its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the Trustee.

Corporate Trust Office ” means the principal corporate trust office of the Trustee currently at 1555 North RiverCenter Drive, Suite 301, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53212, Attention: Corporate Trust Services (Fiserv Debt Securities), at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered.

corporation ” means a corporation, association, company, limited liability company, joint-stock company or business trust.

Covenant Defeasance ” has the meaning specified in Section 1303.

Debt ” of any Person at any date means all indebtedness for borrowed money.

Default ” means any event which is, or after notice or passage of time or both, would be, an Event of Default.

Defaulted Interest ” has the meaning specified in Section 307.

Defeasance ” has the meaning specified in Section 1302.

Depositary ” means, with respect to Securities of any series issuable in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities, a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act that is designated to act as Depositary for such Securities as contemplated by Section 301, until a successor Depositary shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Depositary” shall mean or include each person who is then a Depositary hereunder, and if at any time there is more than one such Person, “Depositary” as used with respect to the Securities of any such series shall mean the Depositary with respect to the Securities of that series.

Event of Default ” has the meaning specified in Section 501.

Exchange Act ” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and any statute successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.

Expiration Date ” has the meaning specified in Section 104.

Funding Guarantor ” has the meaning specified in Section 1505.

Global Security ” means a Security that evidences all or part of the Securities of any series, is issued to the Depositary for such series in accordance with Section 303, and bears the legend set forth in Section 204 (or such legend as may be specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities).

 

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Guarantee ” has the meaning stated in Section 1501(b). The term “Guarantee” used as a verb has a corresponding meaning.

Guarantors ” means any Subsidiary of the Company and any other Affiliate of the Company who may execute this Indenture, or a supplement hereto, for the purpose of providing a Guarantee of Securities pursuant to this Indenture until (a) a successor Person shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Guarantors” shall mean such successor Person or (b) such Person shall have been released from its Guarantee pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture.

Holder ” means a Person in whose name a Security is registered in the Security Register.

Indenture ” means this instrument as originally executed and as it may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof, including, for all purposes of this instrument and any such supplemental indenture, the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are deemed to be a part of and govern this instrument and any such supplemental indenture, respectively. The term “Indenture” shall also include the terms of particular series of Securities established as contemplated by Section 301; provided , however , that if at any time more than one Person is acting as Trustee under this Indenture due to the appointment of one or more separate Trustees for any one or more separate series of Securities, “Indenture” shall mean, with respect to such series of Securities for which any such Person is Trustee, this instrument as originally executed or as it may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof and shall include the terms of particular series of Securities for which such Person is Trustee established as contemplated by Section 301, exclusive, however, of any provisions or terms which relate solely to other series of Securities for which such Person is not Trustee, regardless of when such terms or provisions were adopted, and exclusive of any provisions or terms adopted by means of one or more indentures supplemental hereto executed and delivered after such person had become such Trustee, but to which such person, as such Trustee, was not a party; provided, further that in the event that this Indenture is supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental hereto which are only applicable to certain series of Securities, the term “Indenture” for a particular series of Securities shall only include the supplemental indentures applicable thereto.

Interest Payment Date ,” when used with respect to any Security, means the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such Security.

Investment Company Act ” means the Investment Company Act of 1940 and any statute successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.

Maturity ,” when used with respect to any Security, means the date on which the principal of such Security becomes due and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption, repurchase at the option of the Holder or otherwise.

 

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Notice of Default ” means a written notice of the kind specified in Section 501(4).

Officer ” means the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, any Vice President, the Chief Financial Officer, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, any Secretary or any Assistant Secretary.

Officers’ Certificate ” means a certificate signed by two Officers of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee. One of the officers signing an Officers’ Certificate given pursuant to Section 1004 shall be the principal executive, financial or accounting officer of the Company.

Opinion of Counsel ” means a written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel for, or an employee of, the Company, and who shall be reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.

Original Issue Discount Security ” means any Security which provides for an amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502.

Outstanding ,” when used with respect to Securities or Securities of any series, means, as of the date of determination, all such Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except:

(1) Securities theretofore canceled by the Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;

(2) Securities for whose payment or redemption money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent (other than the Company) in trust or set aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent) for the Holders of such Securities; provided that , if such Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has been made;

(3) Securities as to which Defeasance has been effected pursuant to Section 1302; and

(4) Securities which have been paid pursuant to Section 306 or in exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any such Securities in respect of which there shall have been presented to the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such Securities are held by a bona fide purchaser in whose hands such Securities are valid obligations of the Company;

provided , however , that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given, made or taken any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action hereunder as of any date, (A) the principal amount of an Original Issue Discount Security which shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the amount of the principal thereof which would be due and payable as of such date upon acceleration of the Maturity thereof to such date pursuant to Section 502, (B) if, as of such date, the principal amount payable at the Stated Maturity of a Security is not determinable, the principal amount of such Security which shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the amount

 

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as specified or determined as contemplated by Section 301, (C) the principal amount of a Security denominated in one or more foreign currencies or currency units which shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the U.S. dollar equivalent, determined as of such date in the manner provided as contemplated by Section 301, of the principal amount of such Security (or, in the case of a Security described in Clause (A) or (B) above, of the amount determined as provided in such Clause), and (D) Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action, only Securities which a responsible officer of the Trustee actually knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned which have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee’s right so to act with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor.

Paying Agent ” means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the principal or premium, if any, or interest, if any, on any Securities on behalf of the Company, and shall initially be the Trustee.

Person ” means any individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, trust, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof or any other entity of any kind.

Place of Payment ,” when used with respect to the Securities of any series, means the place or places where the principal of and any premium and interest on the Securities of that series are payable as specified as contemplated by Section 301.

Predecessor Security ” of any particular Security means every previous Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such particular Security, and, for the purposes of this definition, any Security authenticated and delivered under Section 306 in exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security.

Record Date ” means any Regular Record Date or Special Record Date.

Redemption Date ,” when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Indenture, which date must be a Business Day.

Redemption Price ,” when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this Indenture.

Regular Record Date ” for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date on the Securities of any series means the date specified for that purpose as contemplated by Section 301.

Securities ” has the meaning stated in the first recital of this Indenture and more particularly means any Securities authenticated and delivered under this Indenture.

 

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Securities Act ” means the Securities Act of 1933 and any statute successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.

Security Register ” and “ Security Registrar ” have the respective meanings specified in Section 305.

Significant Subsidiary ” with respect to any Person means any Subsidiary of such Person that constitutes a “significant subsidiary” within the meaning of Rule 1-02(w) of Regulation S-X promulgated under the Securities Act, as such regulation is in effect on the date of this Indenture.

Special Record Date ” for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 307.

Stated Maturity ,” when used with respect to any Security or any installment of principal thereof or interest, if any, thereon, means the date specified in such Security as the fixed date on which the principal of such Security or such installment of principal or interest, if any, is due and payable.

Subsidiary ” with respect to any Person means (i) any corporation, association or other business entity of which more than 50% of the total voting power of shares of capital stock or other equity interests entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of directors, managers or trustees thereof is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of such Person (or a combination thereof), (ii) any partnership, limited liability company or similar pass-through entity the sole general partner or the managing general partner or managing member of which is such Person or a Subsidiary of such Person and (iii) any partnership, limited liability company or similar pass-through entity the only general partners, managing members or Persons, however designated in corresponding roles, of which are such Person or one or more Subsidiaries of such Person (or any combination thereof).

Trust Indenture Act ” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force at the date as of which this instrument was executed; provided , however , that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after such date, “Trust Indenture Act” means, to the extent required by any such amendment, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as so amended.

Trustee ” means the Person named as the “Trustee” in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Trustee” shall mean or include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder, and if at any time there is more than one such Person, “Trustee” as used with respect to the Securities of any series shall mean the Trustee with respect to Securities of that series.

U.S. Government Obligation ” has the meaning specified in Section 1304.

Vice President ,” when used with respect to the Company or the Trustee, means any vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or words added before or after the title “vice president.”

 

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Section 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions.

Upon any application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee such certificates and opinions as may be required under the Trust Indenture Act. Each such certificate or opinion shall be given in the form of an Officers’ Certificate, if to be given by an officer of the Company, or an Opinion of Counsel, if to be given by counsel, and shall comply with the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act and any other requirements set forth in this Indenture.

Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include,

(1) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating thereto;

(2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are based;

(3) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual, he or she has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him or her to express an informed opinion as to whether or not there has been compliance with such covenant or condition; and

(4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such individual, there has been compliance with such condition or covenant.

Section 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee.

In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.

Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon which his or her certificate or opinion is based are erroneous. Any such certificate or opinion of counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an officer or officers of the Company stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the Company, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such matters are erroneous. Any such certificate or opinion of counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to accounting matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an accountant (who may be an employee of the Company) or firm of accountants, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to

 

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such matters are erroneous. Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and form one instrument.

Section 104. Acts of Holders; Record Dates.

Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided or permitted by this Indenture to be given, made or taken by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company. The Trustee shall promptly deliver to the Company copies of all such instrument or instruments and records delivered to the Trustee. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the “ Act ” of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 601) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section.

The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing such instrument or writing acknowledged to him or her the execution thereof. Where such execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his or her individual capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of his or her authority. The fact and date of the execution of any such instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved in any other manner which the Trustee deems sufficient.

The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Security Register.

Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind every future Holder of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee or the Company in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Security.

The Company may set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities of any series entitled to give, make or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, vote, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided or permitted by this Indenture to be given, made or taken by Holders of Securities of such series, provided that the Company may not set a record date for, and the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply with respect to, the giving or making of any notice, declaration, request or direction referred to in the next paragraph. If any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding Securities of the relevant series on such record date, and no other Holders, shall be entitled to take the relevant action, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided that no such action shall be effective hereunder unless taken on

 

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or prior to the applicable Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Company from setting a new record date for any action for which a record date has previously been set pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall automatically and with no action by any Person be canceled and of no effect), and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any action taken by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of the relevant series on the date such action is taken. Promptly after any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Company, at its own expense, shall cause notice of such record date, the proposed action by Holders and the applicable Expiration Date to be given to the Trustee in writing and to each Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in Section 106.

The Trustee may set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities of any series entitled to join in the giving or making of (i) any Notice of Default, (ii) any declaration of acceleration referred to in Section 502, (iii) any request to institute proceedings referred to in Section 507(2) or (iv) any direction referred to in Section 512, in each case with respect to Securities of such series. If any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date, and no other Holders, shall be entitled to join in such notice, declaration, request or direction, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided that no such action shall be effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the applicable Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Trustee from setting a new record date for any action for which a record date has previously been set pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall automatically and with no action by any Person be canceled and of no effect), and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any action taken by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of the relevant series on the date such action is taken. Promptly after any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Trustee, at the Company’s expense, shall cause notice of such record date, the proposed action by Holders and the applicable Expiration Date to be given to the Company in writing and to each Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in Section 106.

With respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section, the party hereto which sets such record dates may designate any day as the “Expiration Date” and from time to time may change the Expiration Date to any earlier or later day; provided that no such change shall be effective unless notice of the proposed new Expiration Date is given to the other party hereto in writing, and to each Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in Section 106, on or prior to the existing Expiration Date. If an Expiration Date is not designated with respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section, the party hereto which set such record date shall be deemed to have initially designated the 180th day after such record date as the Expiration Date with respect thereto, subject to its right to change the Expiration Date as provided in this paragraph. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Expiration Date shall be later than the 180th day after the applicable record date.

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amount of such Security or by one or more duly appointed agents each of which may do so pursuant to such appointment with regard to all or any part of such principal amount.

Section 105. Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company.

Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,

(1) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing (or by facsimile transmission ((414) 905-5049), provided that oral confirmation of receipt shall have been received) to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, or

(2) the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to the Company addressed to it at the address of its principal office specified in the first paragraph of this instrument or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company, Attention: Chief Financial Officer, with a copy to the Secretary; provided that notice shall not be deemed to be given until received by the Company.

Section 106. Notice to Holders; Waiver.

Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of any event, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder affected by such event, at its address as it appears in the Security Register, not later than the latest date (if any), and not earlier than the earliest date (if any), prescribed for the giving of such notice. In any case where notice to Holders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders and any notice which is mailed in the manner herein provided shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given. Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such waiver.

In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice by mail, then such notification as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.

Section 107. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.

If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with a provision of the Trust Indenture Act which is required under such Act to be a part of and govern this Indenture, the latter provision shall control. If any provision of this Indenture modifies or excludes any provision of the Trust Indenture Act which may be so modified or excluded, the latter

 

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provision shall be deemed to apply to this Indenture as so modified or to be excluded, as the case may be.

Section 108. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.

The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.

Section 109. Successors and Assigns.

All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.

Section 110. Separability Clause.

In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Securities shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

Section 111. Benefits of Indenture.

Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors hereunder and the Holders, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.

Section 112. Governing Law.

THIS INDENTURE AND THE SECURITIES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICTS OF LAWS PRINCIPLES THEREOF.

Section 113. Legal Holidays.

In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity of any Security or the last date on which a Holder has the right to convert a Security at a particular conversion price shall not be a Business Day at any Place of Payment, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or of the Securities (other than a provision of any Security which specifically states that such provision shall apply in lieu of this Section)) payment of interest or principal (and premium, if any) or, if applicable to a particular series of Securities, conversion need not be made at such Place of Payment on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day at such Place of Payment with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date or Redemption Date, at the Stated Maturity or on such last day for conversion, as the case may be.

Section 114. Indenture and Securities Solely Corporate Obligations.

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Guarantor’s obligations under this Indenture or the Securities or for any claim based on, or in respect or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. By accepting a Security, each holder waives and releases all such liability. This waiver and release is part of the consideration for the issuance of the Securities.

Section 115. Indenture May be Executed in Counterparts.

This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original, but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instruments.

Section 116. Obligation to Disclose Beneficial Ownership of Securities.

All securities shall be held and owned upon the express condition that, upon demand of any regulatory agency having jurisdiction over the Company, and pursuant to law or regulation empowering such agency to assert such demand, any Holder shall disclose to such agency the identity of the beneficial owners of all Securities held by such Holder.

Section 117. Acceptance of Trust.

U.S. Bank National Association, the Trustee named herein, hereby accepts the trusts in this Indenture declared and provided, upon the terms and conditions set forth herein.

ARTICLE TWO

SECURITY FORMS

Section 201. Forms Generally.

The Securities of each series shall be in substantially the form set forth in this Article, or in such other form as shall be established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution or in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply with the rules of any securities exchange or Depositary therefor or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution thereof. If the form of Securities of any series is established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Company Order contemplated by Section 303 for the authentication and delivery of such Securities. Any such Board Resolution or record of such action shall have attached thereto a true and correct copy of the form of Security referred to therein approved by or pursuant to such Board Resolution.

The definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed or engraved on steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner, all as determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities.

 

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Section 202. Form of Face of Security.

[Insert any legend required by the Internal Revenue Code and the regulations thereunder.]

FISERV, INC.

$______

No. ________

CUSIP No. _________

Fiserv, Inc., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of Wisconsin (herein called the “ Company ,” which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to ___________________, or registered assigns, the principal sum of ______________ Dollars on ________________ [if the Security is to bear interest prior to Maturity, insert — , and to pay interest thereon from _________ or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for to, but excluding the next Interest Payment Date, [semi-annually on _________ and _________] in each year, commencing _____________, at the rate of ___% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment [if applicable, insert — , provided that any principal and premium, and any such installment of interest, which is overdue shall bear interest at the rate of [___%] per annum (to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), from the dates such amounts are due until they are paid or made available for payment, and such interest shall be payable on demand]. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the ________ or _______ (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series not fewer than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture. Interest on the Security shall be computed on the basis of a 360 day year of twelve 30 day months.]

[If the Security is not to bear interest prior to Maturity, insert — The principal of this Security shall not bear interest except in the case of a default in payment of principal upon acceleration, upon redemption or at Stated Maturity and in such case the overdue principal and any overdue premium shall bear interest at the rate of ___% per annum (to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), from the dates such amounts are due until they are paid or made available for payment. Interest on any overdue principal or premium shall be payable on demand. Any such interest on overdue principal or premium which is not paid on demand shall bear interest at the rate of ___% per annum (to the extent that the payment of such interest on interest shall be legally enforceable), from the date of such demand until the amount so demanded is paid or made available for payment. Interest on any overdue interest shall be payable on demand.]

 

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Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and [if applicable, insert — any such] interest on this Security will be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in ___________, [if applicable, insert — which shall initially be the [principal corporate trust] office of the Trustee,] in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts [if applicable, insert — ; provided , however , that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register].

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

FISERV, INC.
By:    
Title:  
Attest:  
 

Section 203. Form of Reverse of Security.

This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “ Securities ”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under an Indenture, dated as of __________, 2007 (herein called the “ Indenture ,” which term shall have the meaning assigned to it in such instrument), among the Company, any Guarantors party thereto and U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee (herein called the “ Trustee ,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), and reference is hereby made to the Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto applicable to this Security for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof [if applicable, insert — , limited in aggregate principal amount to $_________].

 

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[If applicable, insert — The Securities of this series are subject to redemption upon not fewer than 30 days’ nor more than 60 days’ notice by mail, [if applicable, insert — (1) on ___________ in any year commencing with the year ___________ and ending with the year _____________ through operation of the sinking fund for this series at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount, and (2)] at any time [if applicable, insert — on or after ___________, 20__], in whole or in part, at the election of the Company, at the following Redemption Prices (expressed as percentages of the principal amount): If redeemed [if applicable, insert — on or before __________, ___%, and if redeemed] during the 12-month period beginning ____________ of the years indicated, and thereafter at a Redemption Price equal to ____% of the principal amount, together in the case of any such redemption [if applicable, insert — (whether through operation of the sinking fund or otherwise)] with accrued interest to the Redemption Date, but interest installments whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to such Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, of record at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the Indenture.]

 

Year

 

Redemption

Price

 

Year

 

Redemption

Price

     
     
     

[If applicable, insert — The Securities of this series are subject to redemption upon not fewer than 30 days’ nor more than 60 days’ notice by mail, (1) on __________ in any year commencing with the year _____________ and ending with the year _________ through operation of the sinking fund for this series at the Redemption Prices for redemption through operation of the sinking fund (expressed as percentages of the principal amount) set forth in the table below, and (2) at any time [if applicable, insert — on or after ________], as a whole or in part, at the election of the Company, at the Redemption Prices for redemption otherwise than through operation of the sinking fund (expressed as percentages of the principal amount) set forth in the table below: If redeemed during the 12-month period beginning __________ of the years indicated,

 

Year

 

Redemption Price For

Redemption Through

Operation of the

Sinking Fund

 

Redemption Price For

Redemption Otherwise

Than Through Operation

of the Sinking Fund

   
   
   

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accrued interest to the Redemption Date, but interest installments whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to such Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, of record at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the Indenture.]

[If applicable, insert — Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may not, prior to ________, redeem any Securities of this series as contemplated by [if applicable, insert — Clause (2) of] the preceding paragraph as a part of, or in anticipation of, any refunding operation by the application, directly or indirectly, of moneys borrowed having an interest cost to the Company (calculated in accordance with generally accepted financial practice) of less than __% per annum.]

[If applicable, insert — The sinking fund for this series provides for the redemption on ___________, in each year beginning with the year ________ and ending with the year ___________ of [if applicable, insert — not less than $_________ (“ mandatory sinking fund ”) and not more than] $_________ aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series. Securities of this series acquired or redeemed by the Company otherwise than through [if applicable, insert — mandatory] sinking fund payments may be credited against subsequent [if applicable, insert mandatory] sinking fund payments otherwise required to be made [if applicable, insert — , in the inverse order in which they become due].]

[If the Security is subject to redemption of any kind, insert — In the event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new Security or Securities of this series and of like tenor for the unredeemed portion hereof will be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.]

[If applicable, insert — The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of [the entire indebtedness of this Security] [or] [certain restrictive covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Security] [, in each case] upon compliance with certain conditions set forth in the Indenture.]

[If the Security is convertible into Common Stock of the Company, insert — Subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of this Security is entitled, at its option, at any time on or prior to Maturity (except that, in case this Security or any portion hereof shall be called for redemption, such right shall terminate with respect to this Security or portion hereof, as the case may be, so called for redemption at the close of business on the first Business Day next preceding the date fixed for redemption as provided in the Indenture unless the Company defaults in making the payment due upon redemption), to convert the principal amount of this Security (or any portion hereof which is $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof), into fully paid and non-assessable shares (calculated as to each conversion to the nearest 1/100th of a share) of the Common Stock of the Company, as said shares shall be constituted at the date of conversion, at the conversion price of $_________ principal amount of Securities for each share of Common Stock, or at the adjusted conversion price in effect at the date of conversion determined as provided in the Indenture, upon surrender of this Security, together with the conversion notice hereon duly executed, to the Company at the designated office or agency of the Company in ______________, accompanied (if so required by the Company) by instruments of transfer, in form satisfactory to the Company and to the Trustee, duly executed by the Holder or by its duly

 

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authorized attorney in writing. Such surrender shall, if made during any period beginning at the close of business on a Regular Record Date and ending at the opening of business on the Interest Payment Date next following such Regular Record Date (unless this Security or the portion being converted shall have been called for redemption on a Redemption Date during the period beginning at the close of business on a Regular Record Date and ending at the opening of business on the first Business Day after the next succeeding Interest Payment Date, or if such Interest Payment Date is not a Business Day, the second such Business Day), also be accompanied by payment in funds acceptable to the Company of an amount equal to the interest payable on such Interest Payment Date on the principal amount of this Security then being converted. Subject to the aforesaid requirement for payment and, in the case of a conversion after the Regular Record Date next preceding any Interest Payment Date and on or before such Interest Payment Date, to the right of the Holder of this Security (or any Predecessor Security) of record at such Regular Record Date to receive an installment of interest (with certain exceptions provided in the Indenture), no adjustment is to be made on conversion for interest accrued hereon or for dividends on shares of Common Stock issued on conversion. The Company is not required to issue fractional shares upon any such conversion, but shall make adjustment therefor in cash on the basis of the current market value of such fractional interest as provided in the Indenture. The conversion price is subject to adjustment as provided in the Indenture. In addition, the Indenture provides that in case of certain consolidations or mergers to which the Company is a party or the sale of substantially all of the assets of the Company, the Indenture shall be amended, without the consent of any Holders of Securities, so that this Security, if then outstanding, will be convertible thereafter, during the period this Security shall be convertible as specified above, only into the kind and amount of securities, cash and other property receivable upon the consolidation, merger or sale by a holder of the number of shares of Common Stock into which this Security might have been converted immediately prior to such consolidation, merger or sale (assuming such holder of Common Stock failed to exercise any rights of election and received per share the kind and amount received per share by a plurality of non-electing shares). In the event of conversion of this Security in part only, a new Security or Securities for the unconverted portion hereof shall be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.]

[If the Security is convertible into other securities of the Company, provides for adjustments to the conversion rate or provides for other means to settle conversion, specify the conversion features.]

[If the Security is not an Original Issue Discount Security, insert — If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.]

[If the Security is an Original Issue Discount Security, insert — If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing, an amount of principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture. Such amount shall be equal to — insert formula for determining the amount . Upon payment (i) of the amount of principal so declared due and payable and (ii) of interest on any overdue principal, premium and interest (in each case to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), all of the Company’s obligations in respect of the payment of the principal of and premium and interest, if any, on the Securities of this series shall terminate.]

 

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The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.

As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of this Security shall not have the right to institute any proceeding with respect to the Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee or for any other remedy thereunder, unless such Holder shall have previously given the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of this series, the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Securities of this series at the time Outstanding shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default as Trustee and offered the Trustee reasonable indemnity, and the Trustee shall not have received from the Holders of a majority in principal amount of Securities of this series at the time Outstanding a direction inconsistent with such request, and shall have failed to institute any such proceeding, for 60 days after receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity. The foregoing shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Holder of this Security for the enforcement of any payment of principal hereof or any premium or interest hereon on or after the respective due dates expressed herein.

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in any place where the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or its attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

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subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

This Security shall be deemed to be a contract made under the laws of the State of New York, and for all purposes shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of said State, without regard to conflict of laws principles thereof.

All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.

Section 204. Form of Legend for Global Securities.

Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for the Securities evidenced thereby, every Global Security authenticated and delivered hereunder shall bear a legend in substantially the following form:

THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR A SECURITY REGISTERED, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY IN WHOLE OR IN PART MAY BE REGISTERED, IN THE NAME OF ANY PERSON OTHER THAN SUCH DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF, EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE.

Section 205. Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication.

The Trustee’s certificates of authentication shall be in substantially the following form:

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

Dated:

 

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
As Trustee

 

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By:    
  Authorized Signatory

Section 206. Form of Conversion Notice.

Conversion notices shall be in substantially the following form, with such changes as are appropriate for the applicable series of Securities:

To Fiserv, Inc.:

The undersigned owner of this Security hereby irrevocably exercises the option to convert this Security, or portion hereof (which is $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof) below designated, in accordance with the terms of the Indenture referred to in this Security, and directs that any shares issuable and deliverable upon the conversion, together with any check in payment for fractional shares and any Securities representing any unconverted principal amount hereof, be issued and delivered to the registered holder hereof unless a different name has been indicated below. If this Notice is being delivered on a date after the close of business on a Regular Record Date and prior to the opening of business on the related Interest Payment Date (unless this Security or the portion thereof being converted has been called for redemption on a Redemption Date during the period beginning at the close of business on a Regular Record Date and ending at the opening of business on the first Business Day after the next succeeding Interest Payment Date, or if such Interest Payment Date is not a Business Day, the second such Business Day), this Notice is accompanied by payment, in funds acceptable to the Company, of an amount equal to the interest payable on such Interest Payment Date of the principal of this Security to be converted. If shares are to be issued in the name of a person other than the undersigned, the undersigned will pay all transfer taxes payable with respect to this option exercise, including such issuance. Any amount required to be paid by the undersigned on account of interest accompanies this Security.

Principal Amount to be Converted (in an integral multiple of $1,000, if less than all)

 

U.S. $_________    
Dated: _____________________      
     
    Signature(s) must be guaranteed by an eligible guarantor institution (banks, stock brokers, savings and loan associations and credit unions with membership in an approved signature guarantee medallion program) pursuant to Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 17 Ad-15, if shares of Common Stock are to be delivered, or Securities to be issued, other than to and in the name of the registered owner.

 

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Signature Guaranty

Fill in for registration of shares of Common Stock and Security if to be issued otherwise than to the registered Holder.

 

       
(Name)    

Social Security or Other Taxpayer

Identification Number

     
(Address)    
     

Please print Name and Address

(including zip code number)

   

[The above conversion notice is to be modified, as appropriate, for conversion into other securities or property of the Company.]

ARTICLE THREE

THE SECURITIES

Section 301. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series.

The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited.

The Securities may be issued in one or more series. There shall be established in or pursuant to a Board Resolution and, subject to Section 303, set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in an Officers’ Certificate, or established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance of Securities of any series, any or all of the following:

(1) the title of the Securities of the series (which shall distinguish the Securities of the series from Securities of any other series);

(2) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of the series which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of the series pursuant to Section 304, 305, 306, 906 or 1107 and except for any Securities which, pursuant to Section 303, are deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder);

 

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(3) the price or prices at which the Securities of such series will be offered by the Company (such price or prices to be expressed as percentage of the principal amount of the Securities of such series);

(4) the Person to whom any interest on a Security of the series shall be payable, if other than the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest;

(5) the date or dates on which the principal of any Securities of the series is payable;

(6) the rate or rates at which any Securities of the series shall bear interest, if any, or the method of determining the rate or rates, the date or dates from which any such interest shall accrue, the Interest Payment Dates on which any such interest shall be payable or the method of determining such dates and the Regular Record Date for any such interest payable on any Interest Payment Date;

(7) the rate or rates of interest, if any, payable on overdue installments of principal of, or any premium or interest on the Securities of such series, and the basis upon which interest shall be calculated if other than that of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months;

(8) the place or places where the principal of and any premium, if any, and interest on any Securities of the series shall be payable;

(9) the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the terms and conditions upon which any Securities of the series may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company or otherwise and, if other than by a Board Resolution, the manner in which any election by the Company to redeem the Securities shall be evidenced;

(10) the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem or purchase any Securities of the series pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous provisions or otherwise at the option of the Holder thereof and the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the terms and conditions upon which any Securities of the series shall be redeemed or purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation;

(11) if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof, the denominations in which any Securities of the series shall be issuable;

(12) if the amount of principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities of the series may be determined with reference to an index or pursuant to a formula, the manner in which such amounts shall be determined;

(13) if other than the currency of the United States of America, the currency, currencies or currency units in which the principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities of the series shall be payable and the manner of determining the equivalent thereof in the currency of the United States of America for any purpose, including for purposes of the definition of “Outstanding” in Section 101;

 

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(14) if the principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities of the series is to be payable, at the election of the Company or the Holder thereof, in one or more currencies or currency units other than that or those in which such Securities are stated to be payable, the currency, currencies or currency units in which the principal of or any premium or interest on such Securities as to which such election is made shall be payable, the periods within which and the terms and conditions upon which such election is to be made and the amount so payable (or the manner in which such amount shall be determined);

(15) if other than the entire principal amount thereof, the portion of the principal amount of any Securities of the series which shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502;

(16) if the principal amount payable at the Stated Maturity of any Securities of the series will not be determinable as of any one or more dates prior to the Stated Maturity, the amount which shall be deemed to be the principal amount of such Securities as of any such date for any purpose thereunder or hereunder, including the principal amount thereof which shall be due and payable upon any Maturity other than the Stated Maturity or which shall be deemed to be Outstanding as of any date prior to the Stated Maturity (or, in any such case, the manner in which such amount deemed to be the principal amount shall be determined);

(17) if applicable, that the Securities of the series, in whole or any specified part, shall be defeasible pursuant to Section 1302 or Section 1303 or both such Sections and, if other than by a Board Resolution, the manner in which any election by the Company to defease such Securities shall be evidenced and any changes or additions to the provisions provided in Article Thirteen of this Indenture and related definitions and provisions dealing with defeasance, including the addition of additional covenants that may be subject to the Company’s Covenant Defeasance option;

(18) if applicable, the terms of any right to convert Securities of the series into, or exchange securities for, shares of Common Stock of the Company or other securities or property or cash in lieu of such Common Stock or other securities or property, or any combination thereof, and any corresponding changes to the provisions of this Indenture as then in effect;

(19) if applicable, that any Securities of the series shall be issuable in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities and, in such case, the respective Depositaries for such Global Securities, the form of any legend or legends which shall be borne by any such Global Security in addition to or in lieu of that set forth in Section 204 and any circumstances in addition to or in lieu of those set forth in Clause (2) of the last paragraph of Section 305 in which any such Global Security may be exchanged in whole or in part for Securities registered, and any transfer of such Global Security in whole or in part may be registered, in the name or names of Persons other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof;

(20) any addition to or change in the Events of Default which applies to any Securities of the series and any change in the right of the Trustee or the requisite Holders of such Securities to declare the principal amount thereof due and payable pursuant to Section 502;

 

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(21) any Authenticating Agents, Paying Agents or Security Registrars;

(22) whether Securities of the series are entitled to any benefits of any Guarantee of any Guarantors pursuant to this Indenture;

(23) the terms, if any, of the transfer, mortgage, pledge or assignment as security for the Securities of the series of any properties, assets, moneys, proceeds, securities or other collateral, including whether certain provisions of the Trust Indenture Act are applicable and any corresponding changes to provisions of this Indenture as then in effect;

(24) any addition to or change in the covenants set forth in Article Ten which applies to Securities of the series; and

(25) any other terms of the series (which terms shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture, except as permitted by Section 901(5)).

All Securities of any one series shall be substantially identical except as to denomination and except as may otherwise be provided in or pursuant to the Board Resolution referred to above and (subject to Section 303) set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in the Officers’ Certificate referred to above or in any such indenture supplemental hereto. All Securities of any one series need not be issued at the same time and, unless otherwise provided, a series may be reopened for issuances of additional Securities of such series.

If any of the terms of the series are established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Officers’ Certificate setting forth the terms of the series.

Section 302. Denominations.

The Securities of each series shall be issuable only in registered form without coupons and only in such denominations as shall be specified as contemplated by Section 301. In the absence of any such specified denomination with respect to the Securities of any series, the Securities of such series shall be issuable in minimum denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000.

Section 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.

The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its Chairman of the Board, its principal financial officer, its Chief Executive Officer, its President or one of its Vice Presidents, its Treasurer or its Assistant Treasurer, attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries. The signature of any of these officers on the Securities may be manual or facsimile.

Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or did not hold such offices at the date of such Securities.

 

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At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities of any series executed by the Company and, if applicable, having endorsed thereon the Guarantees executed as provided in Section 1502 to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee in accordance with the Company Order (which may provide that Securities that are the subject thereof will be authenticated and delivered by the Trustee from time to time upon the telephonic or written order of Persons designated in said Company Order and that such Persons are authorized to determine such terms and conditions of said Securities as are specified in the Company Order) shall authenticate and deliver such Securities. If the form or terms of the Securities of the series have been established by or pursuant to one or more Board Resolutions as permitted by Sections 201 and 301, in authenticating such Securities, and accepting the additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 601) shall be fully protected in relying upon, a copy of such Board Resolution, the Officers’ Certificate setting forth the terms of the series and an Opinion of Counsel, with such Opinion of Counsel stating,

(1) if the form of such Securities has been established by or pursuant to Board Resolution as permitted by Section 201, that such form has been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;

(2) if the terms of such Securities have been established by or pursuant to Board Resolution as permitted by Section 301, that such terms have been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture; and

(3) that such Securities, when authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and issued by the Company in the manner and subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company, and, if applicable, the Guarantees endorsed thereon will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Guarantors, in each case enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles.

However, the Trustee shall not be required to authenticate such Securities if the issue of such Securities pursuant to this Indenture will affect the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under the Securities and this Indenture or otherwise in a manner which is not reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 301 and of the preceding paragraph, if all Securities of a series are not to be originally issued at one time, it shall not be necessary to deliver the Officers’ Certificate otherwise required pursuant to Section 301 or the Company Order and Opinion of Counsel otherwise required pursuant to such preceding paragraph at or prior to the authentication of each Security of such series if such documents are delivered at or prior to the authentication upon original issuance of the first Security of such series to be issued.

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No Security or Guarantee endorsed thereon shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Security a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein executed by the Trustee by manual signature, and such certificate upon any Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Security shall have been authenticated and delivered hereunder but never issued and sold by the Company, and the Company shall deliver such Security to the Trustee for cancellation as provided in Section 309, for all purposes of this Indenture such Security shall be deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder and shall never be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.

Section 304. Temporary Securities.

Pending the preparation of definitive Securities of any series, the Company may execute, and upon Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Securities which are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination, substantially of the tenor of the definitive Securities in lieu of which they are issued and with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the officers executing such Securities may determine, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities.

If temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Company will cause definitive Securities of that series to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of definitive Securities of such series, the temporary Securities of such series shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities of such series upon surrender of the temporary Securities of such series at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for that series, without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities of any series, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor one or more definitive Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of like tenor and aggregate principal amount. Until so exchanged, the temporary Securities of any series shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of such series and tenor.

Section 305. Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange.

The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee a register (the register maintained in such office and in any other office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment being herein sometimes collectively referred to as the “ Security Register ”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of Securities and of transfers of Securities. The Trustee is hereby appointed “Security Registrar” for the purpose of registering Securities and transfers of Securities as herein provided. The Company may change any Security Registrar without notice to any Holder. The Company or any of its Subsidiaries may act as Security Registrar.

Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Security of a series at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for that series, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of like tenor and aggregate principal amount.

 

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At the option of the Holder, Securities of any series may be exchanged for other Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of like tenor and aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.

All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.

Every Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange shall (if so required by the Company or the Trustee) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed, by the Holder thereof or its attorney duly authorized in writing.

No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 304, 906 or 1107 not involving any transfer.

If the Securities of any series (or of any series and specified tenor) are to be redeemed in part, the Company shall not be required (A) to issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Securities of that series (or of that series and specified tenor, as the case may be) during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the day of the mailing of a notice of redemption of any such Securities selected for redemption under Section 1103 and ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing, or (B) to register the transfer of or exchange any Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of any Security being redeemed in part.

The provisions of Clauses (1), (2), (3) and (4) below shall apply only to Global Securities:

(1) Each Global Security authenticated under this Indenture shall be registered in the name of the Depositary designated for such Global Security or a nominee thereof and delivered to such Depositary or a nominee thereof or custodian therefor, and each such Global Security shall constitute a single Security for all purposes of this Indenture.

(2) Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, no Global Security may be exchanged in whole or in part for Securities registered, and no transfer of a Global Security in whole or in part may be registered, in the name of any Person other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof unless (A) such Depositary (i) has notified the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such Global Security or (ii) has ceased to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act, (B) there

 

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shall have occurred and be continuing an Event of Default with respect to such Global Security or (C) there shall exist such circumstances, if any, in addition to or in lieu of the foregoing as have been specified for this purpose as contemplated by Section 301.

(3) Subject to Clause (2) above, any exchange of a Global Security for other Securities may be made in whole or in part, and all Securities issued in exchange for a Global Security or any portion thereof shall be registered in such names as the Depositary for such Global Security shall direct.

(4) Every Security authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for or in lieu of, a Global Security or any portion thereof, whether pursuant to this Section, Section 304, 306, 906 or 1107 or otherwise, shall be authenticated and delivered in the form of, and shall be, a Global Security, unless such Security is registered in the name of a Person other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof.

Section 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.

If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a new Security of the same series and of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.

If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i) evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security and (ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Security, a new Security of the same series and of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.

In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security.

Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, the Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.

Every new Security of any series issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Securities of that series duly issued hereunder.

The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.

 

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Section 307. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.

Except as otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301 with respect to any series of Securities, interest on any Security which is payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest; provided that on the maturity date for any series of Securities, we will pay accrued and unpaid interest to the Person to whom we pay the principal amount, instead of the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date.

In the case of Securities represented by a Global Security registered in the name of or held by a Depository or its nominee, unless otherwise specified by Section 301, payment of principal, premium, if any, and interest, if any, will be made to the Depository or its nominee, as the case may be, as the registered owner or Holder of such Global Security. None of the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Paying Agent, any Authenticating Agent or the Security Registrant for such Securities will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to or payments made on account of a beneficial ownership interest in a Global Security or maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests.

Any interest on any Security of any series which is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date (herein called “ Defaulted Interest ”) shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder, and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each case, as provided in Clause (1) or (2) below:

(1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the Persons in whose names the Securities of such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each Security of such series and the date of the proposed payment, and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this Clause provided. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than 15 days and not fewer than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not fewer than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such Special Record Date and, in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be given to each Holder of Securities of such series in the manner set forth in Section 106, not fewer than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having been so mailed, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the Securities of such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following Clause (2).

 

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(2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest on the Securities of any series in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which such Securities may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, if, after notice given by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this Clause, such manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.

Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Security delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Security.

Subject to the provisions of Section 1402, in the case of any Security (or any part thereof) which is converted after any Regular Record Date and on or prior to the next succeeding Interest Payment Date (other than any Security the principal of (or premium, if any, on) which shall become due and payable, whether at Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration or otherwise prior to such Interest Payment Date), interest whose Stated Maturity is on such Interest Payment Date shall be payable on such Interest Payment Date notwithstanding such conversion and such interest (whether or not punctually paid or duly provided for) shall be paid to the Person in whose name that Security (or any one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on such Regular Record Date. Except as otherwise expressly provided in the immediately preceding sentence or in Section 1402, in the case of any Security (or any part thereof) which is converted, interest whose Stated Maturity is after the date of conversion of such Security (or such part thereof) shall not be payable.

Section 308. Persons Deemed Owners.

Prior to due presentment of a Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and any agent of the Company, the Guarantors or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name such Security is registered as the owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and any premium and (subject to Section 307) any interest on such Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security be overdue, and none of the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company, the Guarantors or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

In the case of a Global Security, so long as the Depository for such Global Security, or its nominee, is the registered owner of such Global Security, such Depository or such nominee, as the case may be, will be considered the sole owner or Holder of the Securities represented by such Global Security for all purposes under this Indenture. Except as provided in Section 305, owners of beneficial interests in a Global Security will not be entitled to have Securities that are represented by such Global Security registered in their names, will not receive or be entitled to receive physical delivery of such Securities in definitive form and will not be considered the owners or Holders thereof under this Indenture.

 

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Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to any Global Security, nothing herein shall (a) prevent the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee, or any agent of the Company, the Guarantors or the Trustee, from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by a Depository or (b) impair, as between a Depository and holders of beneficial interest in any Global Security, the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of the rights of the Depository as Holder of such Global Security.

None of the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee, any Paying Agent and Authenticating Agent or the Security Registrar will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to or payments made on account of beneficial ownership interest in a Global Security or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interest.

Section 309. Cancellation.

All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of transfer or exchange or for credit against any sinking fund payment shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee and shall be promptly canceled by it. The Company may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and may deliver to the Trustee (or to any other Person for delivery to the Trustee) for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated hereunder which the Company has not issued and sold, and all Securities so delivered shall be promptly canceled by the Trustee. No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities canceled as provided in this Section, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All canceled Securities held by the Trustee shall be returned to the Company, or upon request by the Company, deliver to the Company certificates of destruction with respect thereto.

Section 310. Computation of Interest.

Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of any series, interest on the Securities of each series shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.

Section 311. CUSIP Numbers.

The Company in issuing the Securities may use “CUSIP” numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use “CUSIP” numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders; provided that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Securities or as contained in any notice of a redemption and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Securities, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers. The Company will promptly notify the Trustee of any change in the “CUSIP” numbers.

 

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ARTICLE FOUR

SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

Section 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.

This Indenture shall upon Company Request cease to be of further effect with respect to any series of Securities (except as to any surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of Securities herein expressly provided for or any other surviving rights expressly provided for in a supplemental indenture for a series of Securities), and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when

(1) either

(A) all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (i) Securities which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 306 and (ii) Securities for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 1003) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or

(B) all such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation

(i) have become due and payable, or

(ii) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one year, or

(iii) if redeemable at the option of the Company, are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Company,

and the Company, in the case of (i), (ii) or (iii) above, has deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for the purpose lawful money of the United States or U.S. Government Obligations which through the payment of interest and principal in respect thereof in accordance with their terms will provide lawful money not later than the due dates of principal (and any premium) or interest, or any combination thereof in an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal and any premium and interest to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities which have become due and payable) or to the Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as the case may be;

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(3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that there has been compliance with all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture.

Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 607, the obligations of the Company to any Authenticating Agent under Section 614 and, if money shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to subclause (B) of Clause (1) of this Section, the obligations of the Trustee under Section 402 and the last paragraph of Section 1003 shall survive.

Section 402. Application of Trust Money.

Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all money deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 401 shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal and any premium and interest for whose payment such money has been deposited with the Trustee.

Section 403. Repayment to the Company.

Upon termination of the trust established pursuant to Section 401 hereof, the Trustee and Paying Agent shall promptly pay to the Company any excess money or U.S. Government Obligations.

ARTICLE FIVE

REMEDIES

Section 501. Events of Default.

Event of Default ,” wherever used herein with respect to Securities of any series, means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body), except to the extent such event is specifically deleted or modified as contemplated by Section 301 for the Securities of that series):

(1) default in the payment of any interest upon any Security of that series when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30 days; or

(2) default in the payment of the principal of or any premium on any Security of that series at its Maturity; or

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(4) with respect to a series of Securities, the Company fails to comply with any other term, covenant or agreement with respect thereto (other than a term, covenant or agreement a default in whose performance or whose breach is elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt with or which has expressly been included in this Indenture solely for the benefit of series of Securities other than that series or which has been included in this Indenture but not made applicable to the Securities of such series), and continuance of such default or breach for a period of 90 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series a written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder; or

(5) the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of (A) a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or (B) a decree or order adjudging the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries under any applicable Federal or State law, or appointing a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries or of any substantial part of its respective property, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of its respective affairs, and the continuance of any such decree or order for relief or any such other decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 90 consecutive days; or

(6) the commencement by the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries of a voluntary case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or of any other case or proceeding to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by it to the entry of a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or to the commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency case or proceeding against it, or the filing by it of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under any applicable Federal or State law, or the consent by it to the filing of such petition or to the appointment of or taking possession by a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries or of any substantial part of its respective property, or the making by it of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by it in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, or the taking of corporate action by the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries in furtherance of any such action; or

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Section 502. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.

If an Event of Default, other than an Event of Default specified in Sections 501(5) or 501(6) solely with respect to the Company (but including an Event of Default referred to in those Sections solely with respect to any Significant Subsidiary of the Company), with respect to Securities of any series at the time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then either the Trustee, by notice to the Company, or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series, by notice to the Trustee and the Company, may declare the principal amount of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, all the Securities of that series (or, if any Securities of that series are Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount of such Securities as may be specified by the terms thereof) to be due and payable immediately. In the case of an Event of Default specified in Section 501(5) or 501(6) solely with respect to the Company (and not solely with respect to any Significant Subsidiary of the Company) and with respect to Securities of any series at the time Outstanding occurs, the principal amount of (or, if any Securities of that series are Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount of such Securities as may be specified by the terms thereof), and accrued and unpaid interest on, all the Securities of that series shall automatically become immediately due and payable.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, for the first 180 days following any violation of any obligations the Company may be deemed to have pursuant to Section 314(a)(1) of the Trust Indenture Act or the Company’s other reporting and information delivery obligations with respect to filings with the Commission as provided in Section 704, at the Company’s option, the sole remedy of the Holders of the Securities shall be the accrual of additional interest on the Securities while such Default exists at a rate of 0.25% per annum, payable semi-annually. In no event shall such additional interest accrue at a rate per annum in excess of 0.25% per annum, regardless of the number of events or circumstances giving rise to the requirement to pay such additional interest.

At any time after such acceleration with respect to Securities of any series, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series, by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if:

(1) the rescission would not conflict with any order or decree;

(2) all Events of Default with respect to Securities of that series, other than the non-payment of accelerated principal of or interest on Securities of that series, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 513; and

(3) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay:

(A) all overdue interest on all Securities of that series,

(B) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any Securities of that series which have become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration and any interest thereon at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities,

 

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(C) to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful, interest upon overdue interest at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities, and

(D) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.

No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right consequent thereon.

Section 503. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee.

The Company covenants that if:

(1) default is made in the payment of any interest on any Security when such interest becomes due and payable and such default continues for a period of 30 days; or

(2) default is made in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any, on) any Security at the Maturity thereof,

the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on such Securities for principal and any premium and interest and, to the extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, interest on any overdue principal and premium and on any overdue interest, at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities, and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.

If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy.

Section 504. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.

In case of any judicial proceeding relative to the Company (or any Guarantor or other obligor upon the Securities), its property or its creditors, the Trustee shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise, to take any and all actions authorized under the Trust Indenture Act in order to have claims of the Holders and the Trustee allowed in any such proceeding. In particular, the Trustee shall be authorized to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same; and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 607.

 

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No provision of this Indenture shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.

Section 505. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities.

All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Securities or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities in respect of which such judgment has been recovered.

Section 506. Application of Money Collected.

Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article shall be applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such money on account of principal or any premium or interest, upon presentation of the Securities and the notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:

FIRST: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section 607;

SECOND: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for principal of and any premium, if any, and interest on the Securities in respect of which or for the benefit of which such money has been collected, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on such Securities for principal and any premium, if any, and interest, respectively; and

THIRD: The balance, if any, to the Company or any other Person or Persons entitled thereto.

Section 507. Limitation on Suits.

No Holder of any Security of any series shall have any right to institute any proceeding under this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy under this Indenture, unless each of the following shall have occurred:

(1) such Holder gives the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of that series;

(2) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series make a written request to the Trustee to pursue the remedy and offer, and if requested provide, to the Trustee indemnity reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee against any loss, liability or expense incurred in connection with such pursuit;

 

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(3) the Trustee fails to comply with such request within 60 days after the Trustee receives the notice, request and offer of indemnity and does not receive, during those 60 days, from Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of Outstanding Securities of such series, a direction inconsistent with such request.

However, the above limitations do not apply to a suit by a Holder to enforce (a) the payment of amounts due on that Holder’s Securities after the applicable due date or (b) the right to convert that Holder’s Securities in accordance with this Indenture.

Section 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest and to Convert.

Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any Security shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of and any premium and (subject to Section 307) interest on such Security on the respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on the Redemption Date), to convert such Securities in accordance with Article Fourteen and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such rights shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.

Section 509. Restoration of Rights and Remedies.

If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case, subject to any determination in such proceeding, the Company, the Trustee and the Holders shall be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.

Section 510. Rights and Remedies Cumulative.

Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in the last paragraph of Section 306, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.

Section 511. Delay or Omission Not Waiver.

No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Securities to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from

 

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time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee (subject to the limitations contained in this Indenture) or by the Holders, as the case may be.

Section 512. Control by Holders.

The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, with respect to the Securities of such series, provided that:

(1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this Indenture and the Trustee shall not have determined that the action so directed would be unjustly prejudicial to Holders of Securities of that series, or any other series, not taking part in such direction; and

(2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction or this Indenture.

Section 513. Waiver of Past Defaults.

The Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series may on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities of such series waive any past default hereunder with respect to such series and its consequences, except a default:

(1) in the payment of the principal of or any premium or interest on any Security of such series or the payment of any redemption price, purchase price or repurchase price with respect to any Security of such series;

(2) arising from the Company’s failure to convert any Security in accordance with this Indenture; or

(3) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article Nine cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security of such series affected.

Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or impair any right consequent thereon.

Section 514. Undertaking for Costs.

In any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, a court may require any party litigant in such suit to file an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, including legal fees and expenses, and may assess costs against any such party litigant, in the manner and to the extent provided in the Trust Indenture Act; provided that neither this Section nor the Trust Indenture Act shall be deemed to authorize any court to require such an undertaking or to make such an assessment in any suit instituted by the Company or in any suit for the enforcement of

 

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the right to convert any Security in accordance with Article Fourteen or in any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder or group of Holders for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of, or any premium or interest on, any Security on or after the due date for such payment.

Section 515. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws.

The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.

ARTICLE SIX

THE TRUSTEE

Section 601. Certain Duties and Responsibilities.

The duties and responsibilities of the Trustee shall be as expressly set forth in this Indenture and as provided by the Trust Indenture Act. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it. Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section. No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct, subject to Section 603.

Section 602. Notice of Defaults.

If a Default or Event of Default has occurred and the Trustee has received notice of the Default or Event of Default in accordance with the Indenture, the Trustee must mail to each Holder a notice of the Default or Event of Default within 30 days after receipt of the notice. However, the Trustee need not mail the notice if the Default or Event of Default (a) has been cured or waived; or (b) is not in the payment of any amounts due with respect to any Security or the failure to convert any Security in accordance with the Indenture and the Trustee in good faith determines that withholding the notice is in the best interests of Holders. In addition, the Trustee shall give the Holders of Securities of such series notice of such Default or Event of Default actually known to it as and to the extent provided by the Trust Indenture Act.

 

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Section 603. Certain Rights of Trustee.

Subject to the provisions of Section 601:

(1) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;

(2) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order, and any resolution of the Board of Directors shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;

(3) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely upon an Officers’ Certificate;

(4) the Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection and the written advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;

(5) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request, direction or demand of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity that is reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request, direction or demand;

(6) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit;

(7) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed with due care by it hereunder;

(8) the Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken, suffered, or omitted to be taken by it in good faith and reasonably believed by it to be authorized or within the discretion or rights or powers conferred upon it by this Indenture;

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notice of any event which is in fact such a Default is received by the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and such notice references the Securities and this Indenture;

(10) the permissive rights of the Trustee to do the things enumerated in this Indenture shall not be construed as a duty unless so specified herein. The Trustee shall not be liable in connection with the performance of its duties hereunder, except for its own negligence or willful misconduct; and

(11) whenever in the administration of the trusts imposed upon it by this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it necessary or desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking or suffering any action hereunder, such matter may be deemed to be conclusively proved and established by an Officer’s Certificate, and such Officer’s Certificate shall be full warrant to the Trustee for any action taken or suffered in good faith under the provisions of the Indenture in reliance upon such Officer’s Certificate, but in its discretion the Trustee may, in lieu thereof, accept other evidence of such matter or may request such additional evidence as it may deem reasonable.

Section 604. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.

The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the Trustee’s certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent assumes any responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity, sufficiency or priority of this Indenture or of the Securities. Neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent shall be accountable for the use or application by the Company of Securities or the proceeds thereof.

Section 605.  May Hold Securities and Act as Trustee Under Other Indentures.

The Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any Security Registrar or any other agent of the Company, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and, subject to Sections 608 and 613, may otherwise deal with the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent, Security Registrar or such other agent.

Subject to the limitations imposed by the Trust Indenture Act, nothing in this Indenture shall prohibit the Trustee from becoming and acting as trustee under other indentures under which other securities, or certificates of interest of participation in other securities, of the Company are outstanding in the same manner as if it were not Trustee hereunder.

Section 606. Money Held in Trust.

Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed in writing with the Company.

 

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Section 607. Compensation and Reimbursement.

The Company agrees:

(1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time such compensation as shall be agreed in writing between the Company and the Trustee for all services rendered by it hereunder (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);

(2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any provision of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its negligence or bad faith; and

(3) to indemnify the Trustee for, and to hold it harmless against, any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on its part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of the trust or trusts hereunder, including the costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder.

When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection with an Event of Default specified in Section 501(5) or Section 501(6), the expenses (including the reasonable charges and expenses of its counsel) and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law.

Section 608. Conflicting Interests.

If the Trustee has or shall acquire a conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall either eliminate such interest or resign, to the extent and in the manner provided by, and subject to the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act and this Indenture. To the extent permitted by such Act, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have a conflicting interest by virtue of being a trustee under this Indenture with respect to Securities of more than one series.

Section 609. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.

There shall at all times be one (and only one) Trustee hereunder with respect to the Securities of each series, which may be Trustee hereunder for Securities of one or more other series. Each Trustee shall be a Person that is eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such and has (or if the Trustee is a member of a bank holding company system, its bank holding company has) a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000. If any such Person publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of its supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section and to the extent permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, the combined capital and surplus of such Person shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.

 

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Section 610. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.

No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 611.

The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the Securities of one or more series by giving written notice thereof to the Company. If the instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by Section 611 shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition, at the expense of the Company, any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.

The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the Securities of any series by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series, delivered to the Trustee and to the Company. If the instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by Section 611 shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of removal, the Trustee being removed may petition, at the expense of the Company, any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.

If at any time:

(1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 608 after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months,

(2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 609 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by any such Holder, or

(3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,

then, in any such case, (A) the Company by a Board Resolution may remove the Trustee with respect to all Securities, or (B) subject to Section 514, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee with respect to all Securities and the appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees.

If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause, with respect to the Securities of one or more series, the Company, by a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees with respect to the Securities of that or those series (it being understood that any such successor Trustee may be appointed with respect to the Securities of one or more or all of such series and that at any time there shall be only one Trustee with respect to the Securities of any particular series) and shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 611. If, within

 

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one year after such resignation, removal or incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall be appointed by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 611, become the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and to that extent supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the Company. If no successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall have been so appointed by the Company or the Holders and accepted appointment in the manner required by Section 611, the retiring Trustee may petition, or any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security of such series for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.

The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series and each appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series to all Holders of Securities of such series in the manner provided in Section 106. Each notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and the address of its Corporate Trust Office.

Section 611. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.

In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to all Securities, every such successor Trustee so appointed shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on the request of the Company or the successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder.

In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the Company, the retiring Trustee and each successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more series shall execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto wherein each successor Trustee shall accept such appointment and which (1) shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, each successor Trustee all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates, (2) if the retiring Trustee is not retiring with respect to all Securities, shall contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series as to which the retiring Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the retiring Trustee, and (3) shall add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall

 

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constitute such Trustees co-trustees of the same trust and that each such Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any other such Trustee; and upon the execution and delivery of such supplemental indenture the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided therein and each such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates; but, on request of the Company or any successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates.

Upon the reasonable written request of any such successor Trustee, the Company shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts referred to in the first or second preceding paragraph, as the case may be.

No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under this Article.

Section 612. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.

Any Person into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any Person succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate trust business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided such Person shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto. In case any Securities shall have been authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor by merger, conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt such authentication and deliver the Securities so authenticated with the same effect as if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Securities.

Section 613. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company.

If and when the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities), the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of claims against the Company (or any such other obligor).

Section 614. Appointment of Authenticating Agent.

The Trustee may appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents with respect to one or more series of Securities which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities of such series issued upon original issue and upon exchange, registration of transfer or partial redemption thereof or pursuant to Section 306, and Securities so authenticated shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for all purposes as if authenticated by the Trustee hereunder. Wherever reference is made in this Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities by the Trustee or the Trustee’s certificate of

 

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authentication, such reference shall be deemed to include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the Company and shall at all times be a Person organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to act as Authenticating Agent, having (or if the Authenticating Agent is a member of a bank holding company system, its bank holding company has) a combined capital and surplus of not less than $50,000,000 and subject to supervision or examination by Federal or State authority. If such Authenticating Agent publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such Authenticating Agent shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, such Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in this Section.

Any Person into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent shall be a party, or any Person succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate agency or corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be an Authenticating Agent, provided such Person shall be otherwise eligible under this Section, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent.

An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice thereof to such Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time such Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, the Trustee may appoint a successor Authenticating Agent which shall be acceptable to the Company and shall give notice of such appointment in the manner provided in Section 106 to all Holders of Securities of the series with respect to which such Authenticating Agent will serve. Any successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder shall become vested with all the rights, powers and duties of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as an Authenticating Agent. No successor Authenticating Agent shall be appointed unless eligible under the provisions of this Section.

The Company agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to time reasonable compensation for its services under this Section.

If an appointment with respect to one or more series is made pursuant to this Section 614, the Securities of such series may have endorsed thereon, in addition to the Trustee’s certificate of authentication, an alternative certificate of authentication in the following form:

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

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U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
As Trustee
By:    
  As Authenticating Agent
By:    
  Authorized Signatory

ARTICLE SEVEN

HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY

Section 701. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.

The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee:

(1) semi-annually, not later than 15 days after the Regular Record Date, a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders of Securities of each series as of such Regular Record Date, as the case may be, and

(2) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list is furnished;

provided that no such list need be furnished by the Company to the Trustee so long as the Trustee is acting as Security Registrar.

Section 702. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.

The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of Holders contained in the most recent list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 701, if any, and the names and addresses of Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity as Security Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in Section 701 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.

The rights of Holders to communicate with other Holders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the Securities, and the corresponding rights and privileges of the Trustee, shall be as provided by the Trust Indenture Act.

Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any agent of either of them shall be held accountable by reason of any disclosure of information as to names and addresses of Holders made pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act.

 

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Section 703. Reports by Trustee.

The Trustee shall transmit to Holders such reports concerning the Trustee and its actions under this Indenture as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto.

A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission to Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange upon which any Securities are listed, with the Commission and with the Company. The Company will promptly notify the Trustee when any Securities are listed on any stock exchange or of any delisting therefrom.

Section 704. Reports by Company.

The Company shall file with the Trustee and the Commission, and transmit to Holders, such information, documents and other reports, and such summaries thereof, as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act; provided that any such information, documents or reports required to be filed with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act shall be filed with the Trustee within 15 days after the same is so required to be filed with the Commission; provided further that any such information, documents or reports filed with the Commission pursuant to its Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval (or EDGAR) system shall be deemed to be filed with the Trustee.

ARTICLE EIGHT

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE

Section 801. Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms.

The Company shall not consolidate with or merge with or into another Person (in a transaction in which the Company is not the surviving Person), or sell, transfer, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of the property or assets of the Company to, any other Person, whether in a single transaction or series of related transactions, unless:

(1) in case the Company shall consolidate with or merge into another Person (in a transaction in which the Company is not the surviving Person) or sell, transfer, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its properties and assets to any Person, the Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or the Person which acquires by sale, transfer, conveyance or other disposition, or which leases, all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company shall be a corporation, limited liability company, partnership or trust, shall be organized and validly existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia and shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of and any premium and interest on all the Securities and the performance or observance of every covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Company to be performed or observed and the conversion rights shall be provided for in accordance with Article Fourteen (or if as a result of such transaction, the

 

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Securities become convertible into common stock or other securities issued by a third party, such third party fully and unconditionally guarantees all of our obligations or such successor under the Securities and this Indenture), if applicable, or as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301, by supplemental indenture satisfactory in form to the Trustee, executed and delivered to the Trustee, by the Person (if other than the Company) formed by such consolidation or into which the Company shall have been merged or by the Person which shall have acquired the Company’s assets;

(2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of Default, and no event which, after notice or lapse of time or both, would become an Event of Default, shall exist; and

(3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and, if a supplemental indenture is required in connection with such transaction, such supplemental indenture comply with this Article and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with.

Section 802. Successor Substituted.

Upon any consolidation of the Company with, or merger of the Company into, any other Person or any sale, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company in accordance with Section 801, the successor Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or to which such sale, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor Person had been named as the Company herein, and thereafter, except in the case of a lease, the predecessor Person shall be automatically relieved of all obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the Securities.

ARTICLE NINE

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

Section 901. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.

Without the consent of any Holders, the Company and the Guarantors, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the following purposes:

(1) to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company, or successive successions, and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company herein and in the Securities upon the Company’s consolidation or merger, or the sale, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s property or assets in accordance with the Indenture;

 

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(2) to add to the covenants of the Company or the Guarantors for the benefit of the Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such covenants are to be for the benefit of fewer than all series of Securities, stating that such covenants are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such series) or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Company;

(3) to add any additional Events of Default for the benefit of the Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such additional Events of Default are to be for the benefit of fewer than all series of Securities, stating that such additional Events of Default are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such series);

(4) to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities in bearer form, registrable or not registrable as to principal, and with or without interest coupons, or to permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities in uncertificated form;

(5) to add to, change or eliminate any of the provisions of this Indenture in respect of one or more series of Securities, provided that any such addition, change or elimination (A) shall neither (i) apply to any Security of any series created prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture and entitled to the benefit of such provision nor (ii) modify the rights of the Holder of any such Security with respect to such provision or (B) shall become effective only when there is no such Security Outstanding;

(6) to secure the Securities;

(7) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series as permitted by Sections 201 and 301;

(8) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more series and to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Section 611;

(9) to make provision with respect to the conversion rights of Holders pursuant to the requirements of Article Fourteen, including providing for the conversion of the Securities into any security (other than the Common Stock of the Company) or property of the Company, making adjustments in accordance with the Indenture to convert the Securities upon reclassifications, changes in the Company’s Common Stock and certain consolidations, mergers and binding share exchanges, and upon the sale, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s property or assets, and giving effect to any election the Company makes related to the conversion rights of the Holders;

(10) to comply with the rules and regulations of any securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the Securities may be listed or traded;

(11) to add to, change or eliminate any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary or desirable in accordance with any amendments to the Trust Indenture Act; provided that such action does not adversely affect the rights or interests of any Holder of Securities;

 

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(12) to supplement any of the provisions of the Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the defeasance and discharge of any series of Securities pursuant to Articles Four and Thirteen, provided that any such action shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of such series or any other series of Securities in any material respect;

(13) to reflect the release of any Guarantor in accordance with Article Fifteen; or

(14) to add Guarantors with respect to any of the Securities.

In addition, the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee may enter into a supplemental indenture without the consent of Holders of the Securities in order to cure any ambiguity, defect, omission or inconsistency in this Indenture or the Securities in a manner that does not, individually or in the aggregate with all other changes, adversely affect the rights of any Holder in any material respect; provided that any modification of this Indenture and the Securities to conform the provisions of the Indenture to any description of the applicable Securities in the prospectus therefor shall not be deemed to adversely affect the rights of any Holder in any material respect. The Company and the Trustee may also enter into a supplemental indenture without the consent of Holders of the Securities in order to conform the Indenture to any description of the Securities contained in the prospectus therefor.

Section 902. Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders.

With the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of each series affected by such supplemental indenture, by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company and the Trustee, the Company and the Guarantors, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee may enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series under this Indenture; provided , however , that no such supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby,

(1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any installment of principal of or interest on, any Security, or reduce the principal amount thereof or the rate of interest thereon or any premium payable upon any Security, or reduce the amount of the principal of, or any premium, or any interest on, an Original Issue Discount Security or any other Security which would be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502, or change any Place of Payment where, manner or the coin or currency in which, any Security or any premium or interest thereon is payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on, or with respect to, or the conversion of any Security in a manner adverse to the Holders of Securities of such series, or release any Guarantee by a Guarantor other than as provided in this Indenture (it being understood that any release effected by Section 802 shall not constitute any of the foregoing);

 

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(2) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series, the consent of whose Holders is required for any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is required for any waiver (of compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or certain defaults hereunder and their consequences) provided for in this Indenture;

(3) modify any of the provisions of this Section or Section 513, except to increase any such percentage or to provide that certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby; provided , however , that this clause shall not be deemed to require the consent of any Holder with respect to changes in the references to “the Trustee” and concomitant changes in this Section, or the deletion of this proviso, in accordance with the requirements of Sections 611 and 901(8);

(4) if applicable, make any change that adversely affects the right to convert any security as provided in Article Fourteen or pursuant to Section 301 (except as permitted by Section 901(9)) or decrease the conversion rate or increase the conversion price of any such security; or

(5) change the ranking of any series of Securities.

In addition, subject to Sections 508 and 513, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series may, by notice to the Trustee, waive compliance by the Company or the Guarantors with any provision of this Indenture or such Securities, in a particular instance or generally, without notice to any other Holder; provided that no such waiver shall extend to or affect such term, provision or condition except to the extent so expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall become effective, the obligations of the Company or the Guarantors and the duties of the Trustee in respect of any such term, provision or condition shall remain in full force and effect.

A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant or other provision of this Indenture which has expressly been included solely for the benefit of one or more particular series of Securities, or which modifies the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series with respect to such covenant or other provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series.

It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.

Section 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures.

In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Sections 601 and 603) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture. The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture which affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.

 

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Section 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures.

Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article, this Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder of Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby (unless such supplemental indenture does not apply to such Securities).

Section 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.

Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect.

Section 906. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.

Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall if required by the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall so determine, new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Trustee and the Company, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities of such series.

ARTICLE TEN

COVENANTS

Section 1001. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.

The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of each series of Securities that it will duly and punctually pay the principal of and any premium and interest on the Securities of that series in accordance with the terms of the Securities and this Indenture.

Section 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency.

The Company will maintain in each Place of Payment for any series of Securities an office or agency where Securities of that series may be presented or surrendered for payment, where Securities of that series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, where Securities of that series may be surrendered for conversion and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of that series and this Indenture may be served. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the Company hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.

 

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The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies where the Securities of one or more series may be presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided , however , that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in each Place of Payment for Securities of any series for such purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency.

Section 1003. Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust.

If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with respect to any series of Securities, it will, on or before each due date of the principal of or any premium or interest on any of the Securities of that series, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto a sum sufficient to pay the principal and any premium and interest so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided and will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.

Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for any series of Securities, it will, on or prior to each due date of the principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities of that series, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay such principal or any premium or interest so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such principal or any premium or interest, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.

The Company will cause each Paying Agent for any series of Securities other than the Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section, that such Paying Agent will (1) hold all sums held by it for the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on Securities of that series in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided; (2) give the Trustee notice of any default by the Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities of that series) in the making of any payment of principal (and premium, if any) or interest on the Securities of that series; and (3) at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums held in trust by such Paying Agent for payment in respect of the Securities of that series.

The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Company or such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such money.

 

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Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Security of any series and remaining unclaimed for a period ending on the earlier of the date that is ten Business Days prior to the date such money would escheat to the State or two years after such principal (and premium, if any) or interest has become due and payable shall be paid to the Company on Company Request, or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease.

Section 1004. Statement by Officers as to Default.

The Company will promptly notify the Trustee upon its becoming aware of the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default. In addition, Company shall furnish to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company ending after the date of the Indenture, an Officers’ Certificate stating whether the officers certifying therein have actual knowledge of any Default or Event of Default by the Company in performing any of its obligations under the Indenture or the Securities and describing any such Default or Event of Default.

Section 1005. Existence.

Subject to Article Eight, the Company will do or cause to be done all things reasonably necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence.

Section 1006. Payment of Taxes and Other Claims

The Company will pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged, before the same shall become delinquent, all taxes, assessments and governmental charges levied or imposed upon the Company or upon the income, profits or property of the Company, provided , however , that the Company shall not be required to pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged any such tax, assessment or charge (i) whose amount, applicability or validity is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings or (ii) if the failure to pay or discharge would not have a material adverse effect on the assets, business, operations, properties or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole.

Section 1007. Calculation of Original Issue Discount.

The Company shall file with the Trustee promptly at the end of each calendar year (i) a written notice specifying the amount of original issue discount (including daily rates and accrual periods), if any, accrued on Outstanding Securities as of the end of such year and (ii) such other specific information relating to such original issue discount as may then be relevant under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time.

 

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ARTICLE ELEVEN

REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES

Section 1101. Applicability of Article.

Securities of any series which are redeemable before their Stated Maturity shall be redeemable in accordance with their terms and (except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities) in accordance with this Article.

Section 1102. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.

The election of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced by a Board Resolution or in another manner specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities. In case of any redemption at the election of the Company of the Securities of any series (including any such redemption affecting only a single Security), the Company shall, at least 40 days (or 45 days if fewer than all the Securities of any series are to be redeemed) prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of such Redemption Date, of the principal amount of Securities of such series to be redeemed and, if applicable, of the tenor of the Securities to be redeemed. In the case of any redemption of Securities prior to the expiration of any restriction on such redemption provided in the terms of such Securities or elsewhere in this Indenture, the Company shall furnish the Trustee with an Officers’ Certificate evidencing compliance with such restriction.

Section 1103. Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed.

If fewer than all the Securities of any series are to be redeemed (unless all the Securities of such series and of a specified tenor are to be redeemed or unless such redemption affects only a single Security), the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 45 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series not previously called for redemption, by lot, or in the Trustee’s discretion, on a pro-rata basis or by such other method as the Trustee may deem fair and appropriate, provided that the unredeemed portion of the principal amount of any Security shall be in an authorized denomination (which shall not be less than the minimum authorized denomination) for such Security. If fewer than all the Securities of such series and of a specified tenor are to be redeemed (unless such redemption affects only a single Security), the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 45 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series and specified tenor not previously called for redemption in accordance with the preceding sentence.

If any Security selected for partial redemption is converted in part before termination of the conversion right with respect to the portion of the Security so selected, the converted portion of such Security shall be deemed (so far as may be), at the option of the Company, to be the portion selected for redemption. Securities which have been converted during a selection of Securities to be redeemed shall be treated by the Trustee as Outstanding for the purpose of such selection.

 

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The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the Securities selected for redemption as aforesaid and, in case of any Securities selected for partial redemption as aforesaid, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed.

The provisions of the three preceding paragraphs shall not apply with respect to any redemption affecting only a single Security, whether such Security is to be redeemed in whole or in part. In the case of any such redemption in part, the unredeemed portion of the principal amount of the Security shall be in an authorized denomination (which shall not be less than the minimum authorized denomination) for such Security.

For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate, in the case of any Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the principal amount of such Securities which has been or is to be redeemed.

Section 1104. Notice of Redemption.

Notice of redemption shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not fewer than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date, unless a shorter period is specified in the Securities to be redeemed, to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at its address appearing in the Security Register.

Failure to give notice by mailing in the manner herein provided to the Holder of any Registered Securities designated for redemption as a whole or in part, or any defect in the notice of any such Holder, shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other Securities or portion thereof.

Any notice that is mailed to the Holder of any Registered Securities in the manner herein provided shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not such Holder receives the notice.

All notices of redemption shall identify the Securities to be redeemed (including CUSIP number(s)) and shall state:

(1) the Redemption Date;

(2) the Redemption Price (including accrued interest, if any);

(3) if fewer than all the Outstanding Securities of any series consisting of more than a single Security are to be redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of partial redemption of any such Securities, the principal amounts) of the particular Securities to be redeemed and, if fewer than all the Outstanding Securities of any series consisting of a single Security are to be redeemed, the principal amount of the particular Security to be redeemed;

(4) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will become due and payable upon each such Security to be redeemed and, if applicable, that interest thereon will cease to accrue on and after said date;

 

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(5) the place or places where each such Security is to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price;

(6) if applicable, the conversion price, that the date on which the right to convert the principal of the Securities or the portions thereof to be redeemed will terminate will be the Business Day prior to the Redemption Date and the place or places where such Securities may be surrendered for conversion;

(7) in case any Securities are to be redeemed in part only, the notice which relates to such Security shall state that on and after the Redemption Date, upon surrender of such Security, the Holder of such Security will receive, without charge, a new Security or Securities of authorized denominations for the principal amount thereof remaining unredeemed; and

(8) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the case.

Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of the Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company’s request, by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company and shall be irrevocable.

Section 1105. Deposit of Redemption Price.

On or prior to 11:00 a.m., New York time, on any Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 1003) an amount of money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of, and (except if the Redemption Date shall be an Interest Payment Date) accrued interest on, all the Securities which are to be redeemed on that date.

If any Security called for redemption is converted, any money deposited with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent or so segregated and held in trust for the redemption of such Security shall (subject to the right of any Holder of such Security to receive interest as provided in the last paragraph of Section 307) be paid to the Company on Company Request, or if then held by the Company, shall be discharged from such trust.

Section 1106. Securities Payable on Redemption Date.

Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so to be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the Redemption Price therein specified, and from and after such date (unless the Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest) such Securities shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of any such Security for redemption in accordance with said notice, such Security shall be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price, together with accrued interest to the Redemption Date; provided , however , that, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, installments of interest whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates according to their terms and the provisions of Section 307.

 

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If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender thereof for redemption, the principal and any premium shall, until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate prescribed therefor in the Security.

Section 1107. Securities Redeemed in Part.

Any Security which is to be redeemed only in part shall be surrendered at a Place of Payment therefor (with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or its attorney duly authorized in writing), and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security without service charge, a new Security or Securities of the same series and of like tenor, of any authorized denomination as requested by such Holder, in aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the principal of the Security so surrendered. If a Security in global form is so surrendered, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the U.S. Depositary or other Depositary for such Security in global form as shall be specified in the Company Order with respect thereto to the Trustee, without service charge, a new Security in global form in denomination equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the principal of the Security in global form so surrendered.

ARTICLE TWELVE

SINKING FUNDS

Section 1201. Applicability of Article .

The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund for the retirement of Securities of any series except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities.

The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of any Securities is herein referred to as a “mandatory sinking fund payment,” and any payment in excess of such minimum amount provided for by the terms of such Securities is herein referred to as an “optional sinking fund payment.” If provided for by the terms of any Securities, the cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction as provided in Section 1202. Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the redemption of Securities as provided for by the terms of such Securities.

Section 1202. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities .

The Company (1) may deliver Outstanding Securities of a series (other than any previously called for redemption) and (2) may apply as a credit Securities of a series which have been redeemed either at the election of the Company pursuant to the terms of such Securities or through the application of permitted optional sinking fund payments pursuant to the terms of such Securities, in each case in satisfaction of all or any part of any sinking fund payment with respect to any Securities of such series required to be made pursuant to the terms of such Securities as and to the extent provided for by the terms of such Securities; provided that the

 

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Securities to be so credited have not been previously so credited. The Securities to be so credited shall be received and credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the Redemption Price, as specified in the Securities so to be redeemed, for redemption through operation of the sinking fund and the amount of such sinking fund payment shall be reduced accordingly.

Section 1203. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund .

Not fewer than 60 days prior to each sinking fund payment date for any Securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate specifying the amount of the next ensuing sinking fund payment for such Securities pursuant to the terms of such Securities, the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by delivering and crediting Securities pursuant to Section 1202 and will also deliver to the Trustee any Securities to be so delivered. Not fewer than 30 days prior to each such sinking fund payment date, the Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund payment date in the manner specified in Section 1103 and cause notice of the redemption thereof to be given in the name of and at the expense of the Company in the manner provided in Section 1104. Such notice having been duly given, the redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner stated in Sections 1106 and 1107.

ARTICLE THIRTEEN

DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE

Section 1301. [Intentionally Omitted] .

[Intentionally omitted.]

Section 1302. Defeasance and Discharge .

The Company shall be deemed to have been discharged from its obligations with respect to any Securities or any series of Securities, and each Guarantor shall be deemed to have been discharged from its obligations with respect to its Guarantee of such Securities, as provided in this Section on and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 1304 are satisfied (hereinafter called “Defeasance”). For this purpose, such Defeasance means that the Company shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness represented by such Securities and to have satisfied all its other obligations under such Securities and this Indenture insofar as such Securities are concerned (and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), subject to the following which shall survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder: (1) the rights of Holders of such Securities to receive, solely from the trust fund described in Section 1304 and as more fully set forth in such Section, payments in respect of the principal of and any premium and interest on such Securities when payments are due, (2) the Company’s obligations with respect to such Securities under Sections 304, 305, 306, 1002 and 1003, and, if applicable, Article Fourteen, (3) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder and (4) this Article. Subject to compliance with this Article, the Company may exercise its option (if any) to have this Section applied to any Securities notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option (if any) to have Section 1303 applied to such Securities.

 

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Section 1303. Covenant Defeasance .

On and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 1304 are satisfied, (1) the Company shall be released from its obligations under Article Eight, Sections 704 and 1006, inclusive, and any covenants provided pursuant to Section 301(19), 901(2) or 901(7) and (2) the occurrence of any event specified in Sections 501(4) (with respect to any of Article Eight, Section 704 or Section 1006, inclusive, and any such covenants provided pursuant to Section 301(19), 901(2) or 901(7)), shall be deemed not to be or result in an Event of Default, in each case with respect to such Securities as provided in this Section (hereinafter called “ Covenant Defeasance ”). For this purpose, such Covenant Defeasance means that, with respect to such Securities, the Company may omit to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in any such specified Article or Section (to the extent so specified in the case of Section 501(4)), whether directly or indirectly by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such Article or Section or by reason of any reference in any such Article or Section to any other provision herein or in any other document, but the remainder of this Indenture and such Securities shall be unaffected thereby.

Section 1304. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance .

The following shall be the conditions to the application of Section 1302 or Section 1303 to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be:

(1) The Company shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee which satisfies the requirements contemplated by Section 609 and agrees to comply with the provisions of this Article applicable to it) as trust funds in trust for the purpose of making the following payments, specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefits of the Holders of such Securities, (A) money in an amount, or (B) U.S. Government Obligations which through the scheduled payment of principal and interest in respect thereof in accordance with their terms will provide, not later than one day before the due date of any payment, money in an amount, or (C) a combination thereof, in each case sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge, and which shall be applied by the Trustee (or any such other qualifying trustee) to pay and discharge, the principal of and any premium and interest on such Securities on the respective Stated Maturities, in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and such Securities. As used herein, “U.S. Government Obligation” means (x) any security which is (i) a direct obligation of the United States of America for the payment of which the full faith and credit of the United States of America is pledged or (ii) an obligation of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States of America the payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by the United States of America, which, in either case (i) or (ii), is not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and (y) any depositary receipt issued by a bank (as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act) as custodian with respect to any U.S. Government Obligation which is specified in Clause (x) above and held by such bank for the account of the holder of such depositary receipt, or with respect to any specific payment of principal of or interest on any U.S. Government Obligation which is so specified and held, provided that (except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depositary

 

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receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the U.S. Government Obligation or the specific payment of principal or interest evidenced by such depositary receipt.

(2) In the event of an election to have Section 1302 apply to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that (A) the Company has received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling or (B) since the date of this instrument, there has been a change in the applicable Federal income tax law, in either case (A) or (B) to the effect that, and based thereon such opinion shall confirm that, the Holders of such Securities will not recognize gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of the deposit, Defeasance and discharge to be effected with respect to such Securities and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amount, in the same manner and at the same times as would be the case if such deposit, Defeasance and discharge were not to occur.

(3) In the event of an election to have Section 1303 apply to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Holders of such Securities will not recognize gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of the deposit and Covenant Defeasance to be effected with respect to such Securities and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amount, in the same manner and at the same times as would be the case if such deposit and Covenant Defeasance were not to occur.

(4) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate to the effect that neither such Securities nor any other Securities of the same series, if then listed on any securities exchange, will be delisted as a result of such deposit.

(5) No event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default with respect to such Securities or any other Securities shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of such deposit or, with regard to any such event specified in Sections 501(5) and (6), at any time on or prior to the 90th day after the date of such deposit (it being understood that this condition shall not be deemed satisfied until after such 90th day).

(6) Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not cause the Trustee to have a conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act (assuming all Securities are in default within the meaning of such Act).

(7) Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any other agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound.

(8) Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not result in the trust arising from such deposit constituting an investment company within the meaning of the Investment Company Act unless such trust shall be registered under such Act or exempt from registration thereunder.

(9) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent with respect to such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance have been complied with.

 

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Section 1305. Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to be Held in Trust; Miscellaneous Provisions .

Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all money and U.S. Government Obligations (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee or other qualifying trustee (solely for purposes of this Section and Section 1306, the Trustee and any such other trustee are referred to collectively as the “Trustee”) pursuant to Section 1304 in respect of any Securities shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of such Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any such Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such Securities, of all sums due and to become due thereon in respect of principal and any premium and interest, but money so held in trust need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.

The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against the U.S. Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Section 1304 or the principal and interest received in respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge which by law is for the account of the Holders of Outstanding Securities.

Anything in this Article to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon Company Request any money or U.S. Government Obligations held by it as provided in Section 1304 with respect to any Securities which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, are in excess of the amount thereof which would then be required to be deposited to effect the Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance, as the case may be, with respect to such Securities.

Section 1306. Reinstatement .

If the Trustee or the Paying Agent is unable to apply any money in accordance with this Article with respect to any Securities by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, then the obligations under this Indenture and such Securities from which the Company has been discharged or released pursuant to Section 1302 or 1303 shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to this Article with respect to such Securities, until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply all money held in trust pursuant to Section 1305 with respect to such Securities in accordance with this Article; provided , however , that if the Company makes any payment of principal of or any premium or interest on any such Security following such reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights (if any) of the Holders of such Securities to receive such payment from the money so held in trust.

 

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ARTICLE FOURTEEN

CONVERSION AND EXCHANGE OF SECURITIES

Section 1401. Applicability of Article .

The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to the Securities of any series which are convertible or exchangeable into shares of Common Stock of the Company, and the issuance of such shares of Common Stock upon the conversion or exchange of such Securities, except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for the Securities of such series.

Section 1402. Exercise of Conversion and Exchange Privilege .

In order to exercise a conversion or exchange privilege, the Holder of a Security of a series with such a privilege shall surrender such Security to the Company at the office or agency maintained for that purpose pursuant to Section 1002, accompanied by a duly executed conversion or exchange notice to the Company substantially in the form set forth in Section 206 stating that the Holder elects to convert or exchange such Security or a specified portion thereof. Such notice shall also state, if different from the name and address of such Holder, the name or names (with address) in which the certificate or certificates for shares of Common Stock which shall be issuable on such conversion or exchange shall be issued. Securities surrendered for conversion or exchange shall (if so required by the Company or the Trustee) be duly endorsed by or accompanied by instruments of transfer in forms satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed by the registered Holder or its attorney duly authorized in writing; and Securities so surrendered for conversion or exchange (in whole or in part) during the period from the close of business on any Regular Record Date to the opening of business on the next succeeding Interest Payment Date (excluding Securities or portions thereof called for redemption during the period beginning at the close of business on a Regular Record Date and ending at the opening of business on the first Business Day after the next succeeding Interest Payment Date, or if such Interest Payment Date is not a Business Day, the second such Business Day) shall also be accompanied by payment in funds acceptable to the Company of an amount equal to the interest payable on such Interest Payment Date on the principal amount of such Security then being converted or exchanged, and such interest shall be payable to such registered Holder notwithstanding the conversion or exchange of such Security, subject to the provisions of Section 307 relating to the payment of Defaulted Interest by the Company. As promptly as practicable after the receipt of such notice and of any payment required pursuant to a Board Resolution and, subject to Section 303, set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in an Officers’ Certificate, or established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto setting forth the terms of such series of Security, and the surrender of such Security in accordance with such reasonable regulations as the Company may prescribe, the Company shall issue and shall deliver, at the office or agency at which such Security is surrendered, to such Holder or on its written order, a certificate or certificates for the number of full shares of Common Stock issuable upon the conversion or exchange of such Security (or specified portion thereof), in accordance with the provisions of such Board Resolution, Officers’ Certificate or supplemental indenture, and cash as provided therein in respect of any fractional share of such Common Stock otherwise issuable upon such conversion or exchange. Such conversion or exchange shall be deemed to have been effected immediately prior to the close of business on the date on which such notice

 

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and such payment, if required, shall have been received in proper order for conversion or exchange by the Company and such Security shall have been surrendered as aforesaid (unless such Holder shall have so surrendered such Security and shall have instructed the Company to effect the conversion or exchange on a particular date following such surrender and such Holder shall be entitled to convert or exchange such Security on such date, in which case such conversion or exchange shall be deemed to be effected immediately prior to the close of business on such date) and at such time the rights of the Holder of such Security as such Security Holder shall cease and the person or persons in whose name or names any certificate or certificates for shares of Common Stock of the Company shall be issuable upon such conversion or exchange shall be deemed to have become the Holder or Holders of record of the shares represented thereby. Except as set forth above and subject to the final paragraph of Section 307, no payment or adjustment shall be made upon any conversion or exchange on account of any interest accrued on the Securities (or any part thereof) surrendered for conversion or exchange or on account of any dividends on the Common Stock of the Company issued upon such conversion or exchange.

In the case of any Security which is converted or exchanged in part only, upon such conversion or exchange the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to or on the order of the Holder thereof, at the expense of the Company, a new Security or Securities of the same series, of authorized denominations, in aggregate principal amount equal to the unconverted or unexchanged portion of such Security.

Section 1403. No Fractional Shares .

No fractional share of Common Stock of the Company shall be issued upon conversions or exchanges of Securities of any series. If more than one Security shall be surrendered for conversion or exchange at one time by the same Holder, the number of full shares which shall be issuable upon conversion or exchange shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate principal amount of the Securities (or specified portions thereof to the extent permitted hereby) so surrendered. If, except for the provisions of this Section 1403, any Holder of a Security or Securities would be entitled to a fractional share of Common Stock of the Company upon the conversion or exchange of such Security or Securities, or specified portions thereof, the Company shall pay to such Holder an amount in cash equal to the current market value of such fractional share computed (unless otherwise specified with respect to any series of Securities), (i) if such Common Stock is listed or admitted to unlisted trading privileges on a national securities exchange or market, on the basis of the last reported sale price regular way on such exchange or market on the last trading day prior to the date of conversion or exchange upon which such a sale shall have been effected, or (ii) if such Common Stock is not at the time so listed or admitted to unlisted trading privileges on a national securities exchange or market, on the basis of the average of the bid and asked prices of such Common Stock in the over-the-counter market, on the last trading day prior to the date of conversion or exchange, as reported by the National Quotation Bureau, Incorporated or similar organization if the National Quotation Bureau, Incorporated is no longer reporting such information, or if not so available, the fair market price as determined by the Board of Directors. For purposes of this Section, “trading day” shall mean each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday other than any day on which the Common Stock is not traded on the New York Stock Exchange, or if the Common Stock is not traded on the New York Stock Exchange, on the principal exchange or market on which the Common Stock is traded or quoted.

 

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Section 1404. Adjustment of Conversion and Exchange Price .

The conversion or exchange price of Securities of any series that is convertible or exchangeable into Common Stock of the Company shall be adjusted for any stock dividends, stock splits, reclassifications, combinations or similar transactions in accordance with the terms of the supplemental indenture or Board Resolutions setting forth the terms of the Securities of such series.

Whenever the conversion or exchange price is adjusted, the Company shall compute the adjusted conversion or exchange price in accordance with terms of the applicable Board Resolution or supplemental indenture and shall prepare an Officers’ Certificate setting forth the adjusted conversion or exchange price and showing in reasonable detail the facts upon which such adjustment is based, and such certificate shall forthwith be filed at each office or agency maintained for the purpose of conversion or exchange of Securities pursuant to Section 1002 and, if different, with the Trustee. The Company shall forthwith cause a notice setting forth the adjusted conversion or exchange price to be mailed, first class postage prepaid, to each Holder of Securities of such series at its address appearing on the Security Register and to any conversion or exchange agent other than the Trustee.

Section 1405. Notice of Certain Corporate Actions .

In case:

(1) the Company shall declare a dividend (or any other distribution) on its Common Stock payable otherwise than in cash out of its retained earnings (other than a dividend for which approval of any shareholders of the Company is required) that would require an adjustment pursuant to Section 1404; or

(2) the Company shall authorize the granting to all or substantially all of the holders of its Common Stock of rights, options or warrants to subscribe for or purchase any shares of capital stock of any class or of any other rights (other than any such grant for which approval of any shareholders of the Company is required); or

(3) of any reclassification of the Common Stock of the Company (other than a subdivision or combination of its outstanding shares of Common Stock, or of any consolidation, merger or share exchange to which the Company is a party and for which approval of any shareholders of the Company is required), or of the sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company; or

(4) of the voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Company; then the Company shall cause to be filed with the Trustee, and shall cause to be mailed to all Holders at their last addresses as they shall appear in the Security Register, at least 20 days (or 10 days in any case specified in Clause (1) or (2) above) prior to the applicable record date hereinafter specified, a notice stating (i) the date on which a record is to be taken for the purpose of such dividend, distribution, rights, options or warrants, or, if a record is not to be taken, the date as of which the holders of Common Stock of record to be entitled to such dividend, distribution, rights, options or warrants are to be determined, or (ii) the date on which such reclassification, consolidation, merger, share exchange, sale, dissolution, liquidation or

 

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winding up is expected to become effective, and the date as of which it is expected that holders of Common Stock of record shall be entitled to exchange their shares of Common Stock for securities, cash or other property deliverable upon such reclassification, consolidation, merger, share exchange, sale, dissolution, liquidation or winding up. If at any time the Trustee shall not be the conversion or exchange agent, a copy of such notice shall also forthwith be filed by the Company with the Trustee.

Section 1406. Reservation of Shares of Common Stock .

The Company shall at all times reserve and keep available, free from preemptive rights, out of its authorized but unissued Common Stock, for the purpose of effecting the conversion or exchange of Securities, the full number of shares of Common Stock of the Company then issuable upon the conversion or exchange of all outstanding Securities of any series that has conversion or exchange rights.

Section 1407. Payment of Certain Taxes Upon Conversion and Exchange .

Except as provided in the next sentence, the Company will pay any and all taxes that may be payable in respect of the issue or delivery of shares of its Common Stock on conversion or exchange of Securities pursuant hereto. The Company shall not, however, be required to pay any tax which may be payable in respect of any transfer involved in the issue and delivery of shares of its Common Stock in a name other than that of the Holder of the Security or Securities to be converted or exchanged, and no such issue or delivery shall be made unless and until the person requesting such issue has paid to the Company the amount of any such tax, or has established, to the satisfaction of the Company, that such tax has been paid.

Section 1408. Nonassessability .

The Company covenants that all shares of its Common Stock which may be issued upon conversion or exchange of Securities will upon issue in accordance with the terms hereof be duly and validly issued and fully paid and nonassessable.

Section 1409. Provision in Case of Consolidation, Merger or Sale of Assets .

In case of any consolidation or merger of the Company with or into any other Person in a transaction in which the Company is not the surviving Person, any merger of another Person with or into the Company (other than a merger which does not result in any reclassification, conversion, exchange or cancellation of outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company) or any conveyance, sale, transfer or lease of all or substantially all of the property or assets of the Company in a single transaction or a series of related transactions, the Person formed by such consolidation or resulting from such merger or which acquires such assets, as the case may be, shall execute and deliver to the Trustee a supplemental indenture providing that the Holder of each Security of a series then Outstanding that is convertible or exchangeable into Common Stock of the Company shall have the right thereafter (which right shall be the exclusive conversion or exchange right thereafter available to said Holder), during the period such Security shall be convertible or exchangeable, to convert or exchange such Security only into the kind and amount of securities, cash and other property receivable upon such consolidation, merger, conveyance, sale, transfer or lease by a holder of the number of shares of Common Stock of the

 

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Company into which such Security might have been converted or exchanged immediately prior to such consolidation, merger, conveyance, sale, transfer or lease, assuming such holder of Common Stock of the Company (i) is not a Person with which the Company consolidated or merged with or into or which merged into or with the Company or to which such conveyance, sale, transfer or lease was made, as the case may be (a “ Constituent Person ”), or an Affiliate of a Constituent Person and (ii) failed to exercise his rights of election, if any, as to the kind or amount of securities, cash and other property receivable upon such consolidation, merger, conveyance, sale, transfer or lease ( provided that if the kind or amount of securities, cash and other property receivable upon such consolidation, merger, conveyance, sale, transfer, or lease is not the same for each share of Common Stock of the Company held immediately prior to such consolidation, merger, conveyance, sale, transfer or lease by others than a Constituent Person or an Affiliate thereof and in respect of which such rights of election shall not have been exercised (“ Non-electing Share ”), then for the purpose of this Section 1409 the kind and amount of securities, cash and other property receivable upon such consolidation, merger, conveyance, sale, transfer or lease by the holders of each Non-electing Share shall be deemed to be the kind and amount so receivable per share by a plurality of the Non-electing Shares). Such supplemental indenture shall provide for adjustments which, for events subsequent to the effective date of such supplemental indenture, shall be as nearly equivalent as may be practicable to the adjustments provided for in this Article or in accordance with the terms of the supplemental indenture or Board Resolutions setting forth the terms of such adjustments. The above provisions of this Section 1409 shall similarly apply to successive consolidations, mergers, conveyances, sales, transfers or leases. Notice of the execution of such a supplemental indenture shall be given by the Company to the Holder of each Security of a series that is convertible or exchangeable into Common Stock of the Company as provided in Section 106 promptly upon such execution.

Neither the Trustee nor any conversion or exchange agent, if any, shall be under any responsibility to determine the correctness of any provisions contained in any such supplemental indenture relating either to the kind or amount of shares of stock or other securities or property or cash receivable by Holders of Securities of a series convertible or exchangeable into Common Stock of the Company upon the conversion or exchange of their Securities after any such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer, sale or lease or to any such adjustment, but may accept as conclusive evidence of the correctness of any such provisions, and shall be protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel with respect thereto, which the Company shall cause to be furnished to the Trustee upon request.

Section 1410. Duties of Trustee Regarding Conversion and Exchange .

Neither the Trustee nor any conversion or exchange agent shall at any time be under any duty or responsibility to any Holder of Securities of any series that is convertible or exchangeable into Common Stock of the Company to determine whether any facts exist which may require any adjustment of the conversion or exchange price, or with respect to the nature or extent of any such adjustment when made, or with respect to the method employed, whether herein or in any supplemental indenture (or whether any provisions of any supplemental indenture are correct), any resolutions of the Board of Directors or written instrument executed by one or more officers of the Company provided to be employed in making the same. Neither the Trustee nor any conversion or exchange agent shall be accountable with respect to the validity or value (or the kind or amount) of any shares of Common Stock of the Company, or of

 

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any securities or property, which may at any time be issued or delivered upon the conversion or exchange of any Securities and neither the Trustee nor any conversion or exchange agent makes any representation with respect thereto. Subject to the provisions of Section 601, neither the Trustee nor any conversion or exchange agent shall be responsible for any failure of the Company to issue, transfer or deliver any shares of its Common Stock or stock certificates or other securities or property upon the surrender of any Security for the purpose of conversion or exchange or to comply with any of the covenants of the Company contained in this Article Fourteen or in the applicable supplemental indenture, resolutions of the Board of Directors or written instrument executed by one or more duly authorized officers of the Company.

Section 1411. Repayment of Certain Funds Upon Conversion and Exchange .

Any funds which at any time shall have been deposited by the Company or on its behalf with the Trustee or any other paying agent for the purpose of paying the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest, if any, on any of the Securities (including, but not limited to, funds deposited for the sinking fund referred to in Article Twelve hereof and funds deposited pursuant to Article Thirteen hereof) and which shall not be required for such purposes because of the conversion or exchange of such Securities as provided in this Article Fourteen shall after such conversion or exchange be repaid to the Company by the Trustee upon the Company’s written request.

ARTICLE FIFTEEN

GUARANTEE

Section 1501. Unconditional Guarantee .

(a) Notwithstanding any provision of this Article Fifteen to the contrary, the provisions of this Article Fifteen shall be applicable only to, and inure solely to the benefit of, the Securities of any series designated, pursuant to Section 301, as entitled to the benefits of the Guarantee of each of the Guarantors.

(b) For value received, each of the Guarantors hereby jointly and severally, fully, unconditionally and absolutely guarantees (the “Guarantee”) to the Holders and to the Trustee the due and punctual payment of the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on the Securities and all other amounts due and payable under this Indenture and the Securities by the Company, when and as such principal, premium, if any, and interest shall become due and payable, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise, according to the terms of the Securities and this Indenture, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 1503.

(c) Failing payment when due of any amount guaranteed pursuant to the Guarantee, for whatever reason, each of the Guarantors will be jointly and severally obligated to pay the same immediately. The Guarantee hereunder is intended to be a general, unsecured, senior obligation of each of the Guarantors and will rank pari passu in right of payment with all Debt of each Guarantor that is not, by its terms, expressly subordinated in right of payment to the

 

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Guarantee. Each of the Guarantors hereby agrees that its obligations hereunder shall be full, unconditional and absolute, irrespective of the validity, regularity or enforceability of the Securities, the Guarantee (including the Guarantee of any other Guarantor) or this Indenture, the absence of any action to enforce the same, any waiver or consent by any Holder of the Securities with respect to any provisions hereof or thereof, the recovery of any judgment against the Company or any other Guarantor, or any action to enforce the same or any other circumstances which might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of any of the Guarantors. Each of the Guarantors hereby agrees that in the event of a default in payment of the principal of, or premium, if any, or interest on the Securities, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise, legal proceedings may be instituted by the Trustee on behalf of the Holders or, subject to Section 507, by the Holders, on the terms and conditions set forth in this Indenture, directly against such Guarantor to enforce the Guarantee without first proceeding against the Company or any other Guarantor.

(d) The obligations of each of the Guarantors under this Article Fifteen shall be as aforesaid full, unconditional and absolute and shall not be impaired, modified, released or limited by any occurrence or condition whatsoever, including, without limitation, (i) any compromise, settlement, release, waiver, renewal, extension, indulgence or modification of, or any change in, any of the obligations and liabilities of the Company or any of the Guarantors contained in the Securities or this Indenture, (ii) any impairment, modification, release or limitation of the liability of the Company, any of the Guarantors or any of their estates in bankruptcy, or any remedy for the enforcement thereof, resulting from the operation of any present or future provision of any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar law, or other statute or from the decision of any court, (iii) the assertion or exercise by the Company, any of the Guarantors or the Trustee of any rights or remedies under the Securities or this Indenture or their delay in or failure to assert or exercise any such rights or remedies, (iv) the assignment or the purported assignment of any property as security for the Securities, including all or any part of the rights of the Company or any of the Guarantors under this Indenture, (v) the extension of the time for payment by the Company or any of the Guarantors of any payments or other sums or any part thereof owing or payable under any of the terms and provisions of the Securities or this Indenture or of the time for performance by the Company or any of the Guarantors of any other obligations under or arising out of any such terms and provisions or the extension or the renewal of any thereof, (vi) the modification or amendment (whether material or otherwise) of any duty, agreement or obligation of the Company or any of the Guarantors set forth in this Indenture, (vii) the voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution, sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets, marshaling of assets and liabilities, receivership, insolvency, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, reorganization, arrangement, composition or readjustment of, or other similar proceeding affecting, the Company or any of the Guarantors or any of their respective assets, or the disaffirmance of the Securities, the Guarantee or this Indenture in any such proceeding, (viii) the release or discharge of the Company or any of the Guarantors from the performance or observance of any agreement, covenant, term or condition contained in any of such instruments by operation of law, (ix) the unenforceability of the Securities, the Guarantee or this Indenture or (x) any other circumstances (other than payment in full or discharge of all amounts guaranteed pursuant to the Guarantee) which might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor.

 

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(e) Each of the Guarantors hereby (i) waives diligence, presentment, demand of payment, filing of claims with a court in the event of the merger, bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization of the Company or any of the Guarantors, and all demands whatsoever, (ii) acknowledges that any agreement, instrument or document evidencing the Guarantee may be transferred and that the benefit of its obligations hereunder shall extend to each holder of any agreement, instrument or document evidencing the Guarantee without notice to it and (iii) covenants that the Guarantee will not be discharged except by complete performance of the Guarantee. Each of the Guarantors further agrees that if at any time all or any part of any payment theretofore applied by any Person to the Guarantee is, or must be, rescinded or returned for any reason whatsoever, including without limitation, the bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization of the Company or any of the Guarantors, the Guarantee shall, to the extent that such payment is or must be rescinded or returned, be deemed to have continued in existence notwithstanding such application, and the Guarantee shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, as though such application had not been made.

(f) Each of the Guarantors shall be subrogated to all rights of the Holders and the Trustee against the Company in respect of any amounts paid by such Guarantor pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture, provided , however , that such Guarantor, shall not be entitled to enforce or to receive any payments arising out of, or based upon, such right of subrogation until all of the Securities and the Guarantee shall have been paid in full or discharged.

Section 1502. Execution and Delivery of Guarantee .

To further evidence the Guarantee set forth in Section 1501, each of the Guarantors hereby agrees that a notation relating to such Guarantee, substantially in the form attached hereto as Annex A, shall be endorsed on each Security entitled to the benefits of the Guarantee authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and executed by either manual or facsimile signature of an officer of such Guarantor, or in the case of a Guarantor that is a limited partnership, an officer of the general partner of each Guarantor, or in the case of a Guarantor that is a limited liability company, an officer or manager of such Guarantor. Each of the Guarantors hereby agrees that the Guarantee set forth in Section 1501 shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding any failure to endorse on each Security a notation relating to the Guarantee. If any officer of any Guarantor, or in the case of a Guarantor that is a limited partnership, any officer of the general partner of the Guarantor, or in the case of a Guarantor that is a limited liability company, an officer or manager of such Guarantor, whose signature is on this Indenture or a Security no longer holds that office at the time the Trustee authenticates such Security or at any time thereafter, the Guarantee of such Security shall be valid nevertheless. The delivery of any Security by the Trustee, after the authentication thereof hereunder, shall constitute due delivery of the Guarantee set forth in this Indenture on behalf of the Guarantors.

The Trustee hereby accepts the trusts in this Indenture upon the terms and conditions herein set forth.

Section 1503. Limitation on Guarantors’ Liability .

Each Guarantor and by its acceptance hereof each Holder of a Security entitled to the benefits of the Guarantee hereby confirm that it is the intention of all such parties that the guarantee by such Guarantor pursuant to the Guarantee not constitute a fraudulent transfer or conveyance for purposes of any Federal or State law. To effectuate the foregoing intention, the

 

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Holders of a Security entitled to the benefits of the Guarantee and the Guarantors hereby irrevocably agree that the obligations of each Guarantor under the Guarantee shall be limited to the maximum amount as will, after giving effect to all other contingent and fixed liabilities of such Guarantor and to any collections from or payments made by or on behalf of any other Guarantor in respect of the obligations of such other Guarantor under the Guarantee, not result in the obligations of such Guarantor under the Guarantee constituting a fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer under Federal or State law.

Section 1504. Release of Guarantors from Guarantee .

(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture, the Guarantee of any Guarantor may be released upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in Section 1302 and in this Section 1504. Provided that no Default shall have occurred and shall be continuing under this Indenture, the Guarantee issued by a Guarantor pursuant to this Article Fifteen shall be unconditionally released and discharged: (i) automatically upon (A) any sale, exchange or transfer, whether by way of merger or otherwise, to any Person that is not an Affiliate of the Company, of all of the Company’s direct or indirect limited partnership or other equity interests in such Guarantor (provided such sale, exchange or transfer is not prohibited by this Indenture) or (B) the merger of such Guarantor into the Company or any other Guarantor or the liquidation and dissolution of such Guarantor (in each case to the extent not prohibited by this Indenture); or (ii) as set forth in an applicable indenture supplemental hereto.

(b) The Trustee shall deliver an appropriate instrument evidencing any release of a Guarantor from the Guarantee upon receipt of a written request of the Company accompanied by an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Guarantor is entitled to such release in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture. Any Guarantor not so released shall remain liable for the full amount of principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities entitled to the benefits of the Guarantee as provided in this Indenture, subject to the limitations of Section 1503.

Section 1505. Guarantor Contribution .

In order to provide for just and equitable contribution among the Guarantors, the Guarantors hereby agree, inter se, that in the event any payment or distribution is made by any Guarantor (a “Funding Guarantor”) under the Guarantee, such Funding Guarantor shall be entitled to a contribution from each other Guarantor (if any) in a pro rata amount based on the net assets of each Guarantor (including the Funding Guarantor) for all payments, damages and expenses incurred by that Funding Guarantor in discharging the Company’s obligations with respect to the Securities or any other Guarantor’s obligations with respect to the Guarantee.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed all as of the day and year first above written.

 

FISERV, INC.
By:    
Name:  
Title:  
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, INC.
By:    
Name:  
Title:  
PRECISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS, INC.
By:    
Name:  
Title:  
ITI OF NEBRASKA, INC.
By:    
Name:  
Title:  
FISERV SOLUTIONS, INC.
By:    
Name:  
Title:  

 

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BILLMATRIX CORPORATION
By:    
Name:  
Title:  
BMC GOVERNMENT SERVICES, INC.
By:    
Name:  
Title:  
BMC PROCESSING, INC.
By:    
Name:  
Title:  
BMC RESOURCES, INC.
By:    
Name:  
Title:  
BMC U.S., INC.
By:    
Name:  
Title:  
TELEPAY, INC.
By:    
Name:  
Title:  

 

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DEL MAR DATATRAC, INC.
By:    
Name:  
Title:  
EPSIIA CORPORATION
By:    
Name:  
Title:  
FISERV FULFILLMENT SERVICES, INC.
By:    
Name:  
Title:  
FISERV FULFILLMENT SERVICES, INC.
By:    
Name:  
Title:  
FISERV FULFILLMENT SERVICES OF ALABAMA, L.L.C.
By:    
Name:  
Title:  

 

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FISERV FULFILLMENT SERVICES TITLE AGENCY, INC.
By:    
Name:  
Title:  
FISERV FULFILLMENT SERVICES SOUTH, INC.
By:    
Name:  
Title:  
INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
By:    
Name:  
Title:  
JEROME GROUP, L.L.C.
By:    
Name:  
Title:  
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
By:    
Name:  
Title:  

 

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Annex A

NOTATION OF GUARANTEE

Each of the Guarantors (which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture), has fully, unconditionally and absolutely guaranteed, to the extent set forth in the Indenture and subject to the provisions in the Indenture, the due and punctual payment of the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on the Securities and all other amounts due and payable under the Indenture and the Securities by the Company.

The obligations of the Guarantors to the Holders of Securities and to the Trustee pursuant to the Guarantee and the Indenture are expressly set forth in Article Fifteen of the Indenture and reference is hereby made to the Indenture for the precise terms of the Guarantee.

 

[NAME OF GUARANTOR(S)]
By:    
Name:    
Title:    

 

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   Exhibit 5

 

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ATTORNEYS AT LAW

 

777 EAST WISCONSIN AVENUE

MILWAUKEE, WI 53202-5398

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www.foley.com

November 13, 2007

Fiserv, Inc.

255 Fiserv Drive

Brookfield, Wisconsin 53045

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have acted as counsel for Fiserv, Inc., a Wisconsin corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the preparation of a Registration Statement on Form S-3 (the “Registration Statement”), including the prospectus constituting a part thereof (the “Prospectus”), to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), relating to the issuance and sale by the Company from time to time of an indeterminate amount of: (i) debt securities of the Company (the “Debt Securities”), which may be fully and unconditionally guaranteed (the “Guarantees”) by certain of the Company’s subsidiaries (the “Subsidiary Guarantors”); (ii) shares of the Company’s common stock, $.01 par value (the “Common Stock”), and attached preferred share purchase rights (the “Rights”); (iii) shares of the Company’s preferred stock, $.01 par value (the “Preferred Stock”); (iv) warrants to purchase securities of the Company (the “Warrants”); (v) contracts to purchase shares of Common Stock or other securities of the Company (the “Stock Purchase Contracts”); and (vi) units, each comprised of a Stock Purchase Contract and either debt obligations or other securities of the Company or debt obligations of third parties securing the holder’s obligation to purchase securities under the Stock Purchase Contract (the “Stock Purchase Units” and, together with the Debt Securities, the Guarantees, the Common Stock and attached Rights, the Preferred Stock, the Warrants and the Stock Purchase Contracts, the “Securities”). The terms of the Rights are as set forth in the Company’s Shareholder Rights Agreement, dated as of February 23, 1998, as amended (the “Rights Agreement”). The Prospectus provides that it will be supplemented in the future by one or more supplements to such Prospectus and/or other offering material (each, a “Prospectus Supplement”).

As counsel to the Company in connection with the proposed issuance and sale of the Securities, we have examined: (i) the Registration Statement, including the Prospectus, and the exhibits (including those incorporated by reference) constituting a part of the Registration Statement; (ii) the Company’s Restated Articles of Incorporation and Amended and Restated By-laws, each as amended to date; (iii) the form of Indenture among the Company, the Guarantors listed and defined therein and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee, for the issuance of Debt Securities (the “Indenture”); and (iv) such other proceedings, documents and records as we have deemed necessary to enable us to render this opinion.

 

BOSTON

BRUSSELS

CHICAGO

DETROIT

JACKSONVILLE

  

LOS ANGELES

MADISON

MILWAUKEE

NEW YORK

ORLANDO

  

SACRAMENTO

SAN DIEGO

SAN DIEGO/DEL MAR

SAN FRANCISCO

SILICON VALLEY

  

TALLAHASSEE

TAMPA

TOKYO

WASHINGTON, D.C.


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In our examination of the above-referenced documents, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures, the authenticity of all documents, certificates and instruments submitted to us as originals and the conformity with the originals of all documents submitted to us as copies. We have also assumed that (i) the Registration Statement, and any amendments thereto (including post-effective amendments), will comply with all applicable laws; (ii) a Prospectus Supplement, if required, will have been prepared and filed with the SEC describing the Securities offered thereby; (iii) all Securities will be issued and sold in compliance with applicable federal and state securities laws and in the manner stated in the Registration Statement and any applicable Prospectus Supplement; (iv) the Indenture, together with any supplemental indenture or officer’s certificate setting forth the terms of a series of Debt Securities to be issued under the Indenture, will each be duly authorized, executed and delivered by the parties thereto in substantially the form reviewed by us; (v) a Form T-1 will be filed with the SEC with respect to the trustee executing any supplemental indenture to the Indenture; (vi) a definitive purchase, underwriting or similar agreement with respect to any Securities offered will have been duly authorized and validly executed and delivered by the Company and the other parties thereto; (vii) any Securities issuable upon conversion, exchange or exercise of any Security being offered will have been duly authorized, created and, if appropriate, reserved for issuance upon such conversion, exchange or exercise; and (viii) with respect to shares of Common Stock or Preferred Stock offered, there will be sufficient shares of Common Stock or Preferred Stock authorized under the Company’s Restated Articles of Incorporation, as amended, and not otherwise reserved for issuance.

Based upon the foregoing, we are of the opinion that:

1. All requisite action necessary to make any Debt Securities and any Guarantees valid, legal and binding obligations of the Company and the Subsidiary Guarantors, respectively, subject to (i) bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, fraudulent transfer, fraudulent conveyance, moratorium and other similar laws of general application affecting the rights and remedies of creditors and (ii) general principles of equity, regardless of whether applied in a proceeding in equity or at law, shall have been taken when:

a. The Company’s Board of Directors, or a committee thereof or one or more officers of the Company, in each case duly authorized by the Board of Directors, shall have taken action to establish the terms of such Debt Securities and to authorize the issuance and sale of such Debt Securities;

b. The Board of Directors or the members and/or managers of each Subsidiary Guarantor, or a committee thereof or one or more officers or managers of such Subsidiary Guarantor, in each case duly authorized by the Board of Directors, shall have taken action to establish the terms of the Guarantees and to authorize the issuance and sale of such Guarantees;


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c. The terms of such Debt Securities and, if applicable, Guarantees and of their issuance and sale have been established in conformity with the applicable Indenture so as not to violate any applicable law or result in a default under or breach of any agreement or instrument binding upon the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor and so as to comply with any requirements or restrictions imposed by any court or governmental entity having jurisdiction over the Company or a Subsidiary Guarantor;

d. Such Debt Securities and, if applicable, Guarantees, shall have been duly executed, authenticated and delivered in accordance with the terms and provisions of the applicable Indenture; and

e. Such Debt Securities and, if applicable, such Guarantees, shall have been issued and sold for the consideration contemplated by, and otherwise in conformity with, the Registration Statement, as supplemented by a Prospectus Supplement with respect to such issuance and sale, and the acts, proceedings and documents referred to above.

2. All requisite action necessary to make any shares of Common Stock validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable will have been taken when:

a. The Company’s Board of Directors, or a committee thereof duly authorized by the Board of Directors, shall have adopted appropriate resolutions to authorize the issuance and sale of the Common Stock; and

b. Such shares of Common Stock shall have been issued and sold for the consideration contemplated by, and otherwise in conformity with, the Registration Statement, as supplemented by a Prospectus Supplement with respect to such issuance and sale, and the acts, proceedings and documents referred to above.

3. The Rights attached to the Common Stock, when issued pursuant to the Rights Agreement, will be validly issued.

4. All requisite action necessary to make any shares of Preferred Stock validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable will have been taken when:

a. The Company’s Board of Directors, or a committee thereof duly authorized by the Board of Directors, shall have adopted appropriate resolutions to establish the powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other rights, if any, or the qualifications, limitations or restrictions, if any, and other terms of such shares as set forth in or contemplated by the Registration Statement, the exhibits thereto and any Prospectus Supplement relating to the Preferred Stock, and to authorize the issuance and sale of such shares of Preferred Stock;


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b. Articles of Amendment to the Restated Articles of Incorporation, as amended, with respect to the powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other rights, if any, or the qualifications, limitations or restrictions, if any, and other terms of such shares shall have been filed with the Department of Financial Institutions of the State of Wisconsin in the form and manner required by law; and

c. Such shares of Preferred Stock shall have been issued and sold for the consideration contemplated by, and otherwise in conformity with, the Registration Statement, as supplemented by a Prospectus Supplement with respect to such issuance and sale, and the acts, proceedings and documents referred to above.

5. All requisite action necessary to make any Warrants valid, legal and binding obligations of the Company, subject to (i) bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, fraudulent transfer, fraudulent conveyance, moratorium and other similar laws of general application affecting the rights and remedies of creditors and (ii) general principles of equity, regardless of whether applied in a proceeding in equity or at law, shall have been taken when:

a. The Company’s Board of Directors, or a committee thereof or officers of the Company, in each case duly authorized by the Board of Directors, shall have taken action to approve and establish the terms and form of the Warrants and the documents, including any warrant agreements, evidencing and used in connection with the issuance and sale of the Warrants, and to authorize the issuance and sale of such Warrants;

b. The terms of such Warrants and of their issuance and sale have been established so as not to violate any applicable law or result in a default under or breach of any agreement or instrument binding upon the Company and so as to comply with any requirements or restrictions imposed by any court or governmental entity having jurisdiction over the Company;

c. Any such warrant agreements shall have been duly executed and delivered;

d. Such Warrants shall have been duly executed and delivered in accordance with the terms and provisions of the applicable warrant agreement; and

e. Such Warrants shall have been issued and sold for the consideration contemplated by, and otherwise in conformity with, the Registration Statement, as supplemented by a Prospectus Supplement with respect to such issuance and sale, and the acts, proceedings and documents referred to above.


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6. All requisite action necessary to make any Stock Purchase Contracts and Stock Purchase Units valid, legal and binding obligations of the Company, subject to (i) bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, fraudulent transfer, fraudulent conveyance, moratorium and other similar laws of general application affecting the rights and remedies of creditors and (ii) general principles of equity, regardless of whether applied in a proceeding in equity or at law, shall have been taken when:

a. The Company’s Board of Directors, or a committee thereof or one or more officers of the Company, in each case duly authorized by the Board of Directors, shall have taken action to approve and establish the terms of the Stock Purchase Contracts and the documents evidencing and used in connection with the issuance and sale of the Stock Purchase Units, and to authorize the issuance and sale of such Stock Purchase Contracts and Stock Purchase Units;

b. The terms of such Stock Purchase Contracts and Stock Purchase Units and of their issuance and sale have been established so as not to violate any applicable law or result in a default under or breach of any agreement or instrument binding upon the Company and so as to comply with any requirements or restrictions imposed by any court or governmental entity having jurisdiction over the Company;

c. Such Stock Purchase Contracts and Stock Purchase Units shall have been duly executed and delivered in accordance with their respective terms and provisions; and

d. Such Stock Purchase Contracts and Stock Purchase Units shall have been issued and sold for the consideration contemplated by, and otherwise in conformity with, the Registration Statement, as supplemented by a Prospectus Supplement with respect to such issuance and sale, and the acts, proceedings and documents referred to above.

We are qualified to practice law in the States of Wisconsin and New York and we do not purport to be experts on the law other than that of the States of Wisconsin and New York, the provisions of the Delaware General Corporation Law and the federal laws of the United States of America. We express no opinion as to the laws of any jurisdiction other than the States of Wisconsin and New York, the provisions of the Delaware General Corporation Law and the federal laws of the United States.


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We hereby consent to the reference to our firm under the caption “Legal Matters” in the Prospectus which is filed as part of the Registration Statement, and to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement. In giving this consent, we do not admit that we are “experts” within the meaning of Section 11 of the Securities Act or within the category of persons whose consent is required by Section 7 of the Securities Act.

 

Very truly yours,
/s/ Foley & Lardner LLP

Exhibit 12

Fiserv, Inc.

Computation of ratio of earnings to fixed charges

(Dollars in thousands)

 

     Nine Months
Ended
September 30,
   Years Ended December 31,
     2007    2006    2005    2004    2003    2002

Earnings calculation:

                 

Income from continuing operations before income taxes

   $ 541,731    $ 678,565    $ 786,168    $ 615,198    $ 482,685    $ 398,658

Interest on indebtedness

     33,619      40,995      27,828      24,902      22,895      17,758

Estimated interest component of rental expense

     33,591      36,977      35,926      36,260      34,468      28,711
                                         

Total adjusted earnings

   $ 608,941    $ 756,537    $ 849,922    $ 676,360    $ 540,048    $ 445,127
                                         

Fixed charges:

                 

Interest on indebtedness

   $ 33,619    $ 40,995    $ 27,828    $ 24,902    $ 22,895    $ 17,758

Estimated interest component of rental expense

     33,591      36,977      35,926      36,260      34,468      28,711
                                         

Total fixed charges

   $ 67,210    $ 77,972    $ 63,754    $ 61,162    $ 57,363    $ 46,469
                                         

Ratio of earnings to fixed charges

     9.06      9.70      13.33      11.06      9.41      9.58

Note: Interest component of rental expense estimated to be 1/3 of rental expense.

Exhibit 23.2

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

We consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement on Form S-3 of our report dated February 20, 2007 (November 13, 2007 as to Note 3 and Note 9) (which report expresses an unqualified opinion and includes explanatory paragraphs related to (i) the Company’s adoption of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123R, Share-Based Payment, on January 1, 2006 described in Note 6, (ii) retrospectively adjusting for discontinued operations as described in Note 3, and (iii) the condensed consolidating financial information associated with subsidiary guarantees as described in Note 9 to the consolidated financial statements), relating to the consolidated financial statements and financial statement schedule of Fiserv, Inc. incorporated by reference from the Current Report on Form 8-K of Fiserv, Inc. dated November 13, 2007 and our report dated February 20, 2007 with respect to management’s report on the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, incorporated by reference in the Annual Report on Form 10-K of Fiserv, Inc. for the year ended December 31, 2006, and to the reference to us under the heading “Experts” in the Prospectus, which is part of this Registration Statement.

 

/s/ Deloitte & Touche LLP
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
November 13, 2007

Exhibit 23.3

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

We consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement on Form S-3 of Fiserv, Inc. of our report dated August 24, 2007, relating to the consolidated financial statements of CheckFree Corporation (which report on the consolidated financial statements expresses an unqualified opinion and includes an explanatory paragraph relating to the adoption of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123(R), Share Based Payment , by CheckFree Corporation on July 1, 2005, as described in Note 1), appearing in the Current Report on Form 8-K of Fiserv, Inc. dated November 13, 2007, and to the reference to us under the heading “Experts” in the Prospectus, which is part of this Registration Statement.

 

/s/ Deloitte & Touche LLP
Atlanta, Georgia
November 13, 2007

Exhibit 24.1

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned constitutes and appoints Jeffery W. Yabuki, President and Chief Executive Officer, Thomas J. Hirsch, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Assistant Secretary, and Charles W. Sprague, Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Chief Administrative Officer and Secretary, and each of them individually, as his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign the Registration Statement on Form S-3 and any amendments (including post-effective amendments) or supplements thereto relating to the offering from time to time by Fiserv, Inc. (the “Company”) of shares of common stock, stock purchase contracts, stock purchase units, warrants, shares of preferred stock and debt securities of the Company and guarantees of the Company’s debt securities by certain subsidiaries of the Company (collectively, the “Securities”) and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the registration of the Securities, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his substitute, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Power of Attorney as of the 13th day of November, 2007.

  /s/ Donald F. Dillon
 

Donald F. Dillon

 


POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned constitutes and appoints Jeffery W. Yabuki, President and Chief Executive Officer, Thomas J. Hirsch, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Assistant Secretary, and Charles W. Sprague, Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Chief Administrative Officer and Secretary, and each of them individually, as his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign the Registration Statement on Form S-3 and any amendments (including post-effective amendments) or supplements thereto relating to the offering from time to time by Fiserv, Inc. (the “Company”) of shares of common stock, stock purchase contracts, stock purchase units, warrants, shares of preferred stock and debt securities of the Company and guarantees of the Company’s debt securities by certain subsidiaries of the Company (collectively, the “Securities”) and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the registration of the Securities, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his substitute, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Power of Attorney as of the 13th day of November, 2007.

  /s/ Daniel P. Kearney
 

Daniel P. Kearney

 


POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned constitutes and appoints Jeffery W. Yabuki, President and Chief Executive Officer, Thomas J. Hirsch, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Assistant Secretary, and Charles W. Sprague, Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Chief Administrative Officer and Secretary, and each of them individually, as his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign the Registration Statement on Form S-3 and any amendments (including post-effective amendments) or supplements thereto relating to the offering from time to time by Fiserv, Inc. (the “Company”) of shares of common stock, stock purchase contracts, stock purchase units, warrants, shares of preferred stock and debt securities of the Company and guarantees of the Company’s debt securities by certain subsidiaries of the Company (collectively, the “Securities”) and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the registration of the Securities, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his substitute, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Power of Attorney as of the 31st day of October, 2007.

  /s/ Gerald J. Levy
 

Gerald J. Levy


POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned constitutes and appoints Jeffery W. Yabuki, President and Chief Executive Officer, Thomas J. Hirsch, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Assistant Secretary, and Charles W. Sprague, Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Chief Administrative Officer and Secretary, and each of them individually, as his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign the Registration Statement on Form S-3 and any amendments (including post-effective amendments) or supplements thereto relating to the offering from time to time by Fiserv, Inc. (the “Company”) of shares of common stock, stock purchase contracts, stock purchase units, warrants, shares of preferred stock and debt securities of the Company and guarantees of the Company’s debt securities by certain subsidiaries of the Company (collectively, the “Securities”) and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the registration of the Securities, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his substitute, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Power of Attorney as of the 2nd day of November, 2007.

  /s/ Glenn M. Renwick
 

Glenn M. Renwick


POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned constitutes and appoints Jeffery W. Yabuki, President and Chief Executive Officer, Thomas J. Hirsch, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Assistant Secretary, and Charles W. Sprague, Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Chief Administrative Officer and Secretary, and each of them individually, as her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for her and in her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign the Registration Statement on Form S-3 and any amendments (including post-effective amendments) or supplements thereto relating to the offering from time to time by Fiserv, Inc. (the “Company”) of shares of common stock, stock purchase contracts, stock purchase units, warrants, shares of preferred stock and debt securities of the Company and guarantees of the Company’s debt securities by certain subsidiaries of the Company (collectively, the “Securities”) and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the registration of the Securities, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his substitute, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Power of Attorney as of the 31st day of October, 2007.

  /s/ Kim M. Robak
 

Kim M. Robak


POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned constitutes and appoints Jeffery W. Yabuki, President and Chief Executive Officer, Thomas J. Hirsch, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Assistant Secretary, and Charles W. Sprague, Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Chief Administrative Officer and Secretary, and each of them individually, as his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign the Registration Statement on Form S-3 and any amendments (including post-effective amendments) or supplements thereto relating to the offering from time to time by Fiserv, Inc. (the “Company”) of shares of common stock, stock purchase contracts, stock purchase units, warrants, shares of preferred stock and debt securities of the Company and guarantees of the Company’s debt securities by certain subsidiaries of the Company (collectively, the “Securities”) and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the registration of the Securities, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his substitute, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Power of Attorney as of the 1st day of November, 2007.

  /s/ Doyle R. Simons
 

Doyle R. Simons

 


POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned constitutes and appoints Jeffery W. Yabuki, President and Chief Executive Officer, Thomas J. Hirsch, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Assistant Secretary, and Charles W. Sprague, Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Chief Administrative Officer and Secretary, and each of them individually, as his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign the Registration Statement on Form S-3 and any amendments (including post-effective amendments) or supplements thereto relating to the offering from time to time by Fiserv, Inc. (the “Company”) of shares of common stock, stock purchase contracts, stock purchase units, warrants, shares of preferred stock and debt securities of the Company and guarantees of the Company’s debt securities by certain subsidiaries of the Company (collectively, the “Securities”) and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the registration of the Securities, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his substitute, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Power of Attorney as of the 6th day of November, 2007.

  /s/ Thomas C. Wertheimer
 

Thomas C. Wertheimer

Exhibit 24.2

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, INC.

PRECISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS, INC.

ITI OF NEBRASKA, INC.

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned constitutes and appoints, Charles W. Sprague, Assistant Secretary, Thomas J. Hirsch, Assistant Treasurer, and Joseph C. Gibson, Assistant Treasurer, in each case, of each of the entities referenced above (the “Guarantors”), and each of them individually, as his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign the Registration Statement on Form S-3 and any amendments (including post-effective amendments) or supplements thereto relating to the issuance from time to time by the Guarantors of guarantees of Fiserv, Inc.’s debt securities (the “Guarantees”) and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the registration of the Guarantees, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his substitute, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Power of Attorney as of the 13th day of November, 2007.

 

/s/ Donald F. Dillon
Donald F. Dillon

Exhibit 25

 


SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 


FORM T-1

STATEMENT OF ELIGIBILITY UNDER

THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939 OF A

CORPORATION DESIGNATED TO ACT AS TRUSTEE

Check if an Application to Determine Eligibility of

a Trustee Pursuant to Section 305(b)(2)

 


U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

(Exact name of Trustee as specified in its charter)

31-0841368

I.R.S. Employer Identification No.

 

800 Nicollet Mall

Minneapolis, Minnesota

  55402
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip Code)

Gene E. Ploeger

U.S. Bank National Association

1555 North RiverCenter Drive, Suite 301

Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53212

(414) 905-5008

(Name, address and telephone number of agent for service)

Fiserv, Inc.

(Issuer with respect to the Securities)

 

Wisconsin   39-1506125
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)   (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

 

255 Fiserv Drive

Brookfield, Wisconsin

  53045
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)   (Zip Code)

Debt Securities

Dated as of November 8, 2007

 

 



FORM T-1

 

Item 1. GENERAL INFORMATION . Furnish the following information as to the Trustee.

 

  a) Name and address of each examining or supervising authority to which it is subject.

Comptroller of the Currency

Washington, D.C.

 

  b) Whether it is authorized to exercise corporate trust powers.

Yes

 

Item 2. AFFILIATIONS WITH OBLIGOR. If the obligor is an affiliate of the Trustee, describe each such affiliation.

None

 

Items 3-15 Items 3-15 are not applicable because to the best of the Trustee’s knowledge, the obligor is not in default under any Indenture for which the Trustee acts as Trustee.

 

Item 16. LIST OF EXHIBITS: List below all exhibits filed as a part of this statement of eligibility and qualification.

 

  1. A copy of the Articles of Association of the Trustee.*

 

  2. A copy of the certificate of authority of the Trustee to commence business.*

 

  3. A copy of the certificate of authority of the Trustee to exercise corporate trust powers.*

 

  4. A copy of the existing bylaws of the Trustee.**

 

  5. A copy of each Indenture referred to in Item 4. Not applicable.

 

  6. The consent of the Trustee required by Section 321(b) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, attached as Exhibit 6.

 

  7. Report of Condition of the Trustee as of June 30, 2007 published pursuant to law or the requirements of its supervising or examining authority, attached as Exhibit 7.

* Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 25.1 to Amendment No. 2 to registration statement on S-4, Registration Number 333-128217 filed on November 15, 2005.
** Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 25.1 to registration statement on S-4, Registration Number 333-145601 filed on August 21, 2007.

 

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SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, the Trustee, U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, has duly caused this statement of eligibility to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, all in the City of Milwaukee, State of Wisconsin on the 8th of November, 2007.

 

By:   /s/ Gene E. Ploeger
  Gene E. Ploeger
  Vice President

 

By:   /s/ Yvonne Siira
  Yvonne Siira
  Vice President

 

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Exhibit 6

CONSENT

In accordance with Section 321(b) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, the undersigned, U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION hereby consents that reports of examination of the undersigned by Federal, State, Territorial or District authorities may be furnished by such authorities to the Securities and Exchange Commission upon its request therefor.

Dated: November 8, 2007

 

By:   /s/ Gene E. Ploeger
  Gene E. Ploeger
  Vice President

 

By:   /s/ Yvonne Siira
  Yvonne Siira
  Vice President

 

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Exhibit 7

U.S. Bank National Association

Statement of Financial Condition

As of 6/30/2007

($000’s)

 

     6/30/2007

Assets

  

Cash and Due From Depository Institutions

   $ 6,570,622

Securities

     38,972,163

Federal Funds

     3,771,433

Loans & Lease Financing Receivables

     144,255,624

Fixed Assets

     2,389,792

Intangible Assets

     12,181,700

Other Assets

     12,884,541
      

Total Assets

   $ 221,025,875

Liabilities

  

Deposits

   $ 133,727,871

Fed Funds

     11,750,444

Treasury Demand Notes

     0

Trading Liabilities

     241,301

Other Borrowed Money

     38,213,977

Acceptances

     0

Subordinated Notes and Debentures

     7,697,466

Other Liabilities

     7,434,860
      

Total Liabilities

   $ 199,065,919

Equity

  

Minority Interest in Subsidiaries

   $ 1,537,943

Common and Preferred Stock

     18,200

Surplus

     12,057,531

Undivided Profits

     8,346,282
      

Total Equity Capital

   $ 21,959,956

Total Liabilities and Equity Capital

   $ 221,025,875

 


To the best of the undersigned’s determination, as of the date hereof, the above financial information is true and correct.

 

U.S. Bank National Association
By:   /s/ Gene E. Ploeger
  Vice President
  Date: November 8, 2007

 

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Exhibit 99

On August 2, 2007, Fiserv, Inc. (“Fiserv”) entered into an agreement to acquire CheckFree Corporation (“CheckFree”) for approximately $4.4 billion in cash. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close by the end of 2007. Nevertheless, Fiserv cannot provide any assurance that the acquisition of CheckFree will be consummated within that time frame, or at all. Fiserv is filing the following excerpts from CheckFree’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2007 (“CheckFree Form 10-K”) and CheckFree’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2007 (“CheckFree Form 10-Q”), which excerpts are incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement on Form S-3 to which this document is an exhibit.

CHECKFREE FORM 10-K EXCERPTS

Business

All references to “we,” “us,” “our,” “CheckFree” or the “Company” in this document mean CheckFree Corporation and all entities owned or controlled by CheckFree Corporation, except where it is made clear that the term means only the parent company.

We own many trademarks and service marks. This document contains trade dress, trade names and trademarks of other companies. Use or display of other parties’ trademarks, trade dress or trade names is not intended to, and does not, imply a relationship with the trademark or trade dress owner.

Overview

CheckFree was founded in 1981 as an electronic payment processing company and has become a leading provider of financial electronic commerce products and services. Our current business was developed through the expansion of our core electronic payments business and the acquisition of companies operating in similar or complementary businesses.

Through our Electronic Commerce Division, we enable consumers to review bank accounts and receive and pay bills. For the year ended June 30, 2007, we processed more than 1.3 billion payment transactions and delivered approximately 226 million electronic bills (“e-bills”). For the quarter ended June 30, 2007, we processed approximately 344 million payment transactions and delivered nearly 61 million e-bills. The number of transactions we process each year continues to grow. For the year ended June 30, 2007, growth in the number of consumer service provider (“CSP”) based transactions processed approached 24% and growth in total transactions processed exceeded 16%. The Electronic Commerce Division accounted for approximately 74% of our fiscal 2007 consolidated revenues. On May 15, 2007, we acquired Corillian Corporation (“Corillian”), a provider of online banking software and services. The addition of Corillian expands our ability to provide a fully integrated, secure and scalable online banking, electronic billing and payment platform.

Through our Software Division, we provide software, maintenance, support and consulting services under four product lines — Global Treasury, Reconciliations and Exception Management, Transaction Process Management and Electronic Billing — primarily to large global financial service providers and other companies across a range of industries. The Software Division accounted for approximately 13% of our fiscal 2007 consolidated revenues. On April 2, 2007, we acquired Carreker Corporation (“Carreker”), a provider of technology and consulting services for the financial services industry. The acquisition expands our ability to provide tools that assist global financial institutions with payments processing, fraud and risk management, cash logistics and expert consultancy in the areas of float management and the convergence of check and electronic payments.

Through our Investment Services Division, we provide a range of portfolio management services to financial institutions, including broker dealers, money managers and investment advisors. As of June 30, 2007, our clients used the CheckFree APL sm portfolio accounting system (“CheckFree APL”) to manage nearly 2.7 million portfolios. The Investment Services Division accounted for approximately 13% of our fiscal 2007 consolidated revenues. On May 31, 2007, we acquired substantially all of the assets of Upstream Technologies, LLC (“Upstream”), a provider of advanced investment decision support and trade order management tools. The


acquisition allows us to deliver web-based model management, decision support, trading and real-time order management tools as complementary capabilities to our core platform for the managed accounts industry.

Government Regulation

We perform certain services for federally-insured financial institutions and thus we are subject to examination by such financial institutions’ principal federal regulator pursuant to the Bank Service Company Act. As we perform these services for federal thrifts (regulated by the Office of Thrift Supervision), state non-member banks (regulated by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation), state member banks (regulated by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), and national banks (regulated by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency), among others, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (“FFIEC”) coordinates which federal regulator performs these examinations, and the timing and frequency of the examinations. In addition, because we use the Federal Reserve’s ACH Network to process many of our transactions, we are subject to the Federal Reserve Board’s rules with respect to its ACH Network.

In conducting our business, we are also subject to various laws and regulations relating to the electronic movement of money. In 2001, the USA Patriot Act amended the Bank Secrecy Act (“BSA”) to expand the definition of money services businesses so that it may include businesses such as ours. We submitted a request for an administrative ruling from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) on September 9, 2002, with respect to whether FinCEN believes us to be a money services business. To date, we have not received a ruling from FinCEN. If our business is determined to be a money services business, then we will have to register with FinCEN as a money services business with the attendant regulatory obligations. Also, 47 states and the District of Columbia have enacted statutes which require entities engaged in money transmission, the sale of traveler’s checks (including money orders), and the sale of stored value cards to register as a money transmitter with that jurisdiction’s banking department, and we have, where required, registered as a money transmitter where appropriate. In addition, as are all U.S. citizens, we are subject to the regulations of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) which prohibit transactions between U.S. citizens and either Specially Designated Nationals (“SDNs”) or targeted countries in furtherance of U.S. foreign policy objectives. The processing of a “prohibited transaction,” as defined by OFAC, may lead to significant civil and criminal penalties. Further, we are a “financial institution” within the meaning of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (“GLB”) as implemented by the Federal Trade Commission’s Financial Privacy Ruleand, as such, we must give our customers notice and the right to “opt out” of any sharing of non-public personal information (“NPPI”) between us and unaffiliated third parties. Moreover, as a service provider to banks, which are also “financial institutions” under GLB, we are likewise bound to certain restrictions under GLB with respect to third party service providers who receive NPPI from financial institutions. Finally, we are also subject to the electronic funds transfer rules embodied in Regulation E, promulgated by the Federal Reserve Board. The Federal Reserve’s Regulation E implements the Electronic Fund Transfer Act, which was enacted in 1978. Regulation E protects consumers engaging in electronic transfers, and sets forth the basic rights, liabilities, and responsibilities of consumers who use electronic money transfer services and of financial services organizations that offer these services.

Our walk-in bill payment service conducted through CheckFreePay is considered a money services business and as such is registered with FinCEN. In consideration of certain risks posed, the nature of the products and services, the customer base served and the size of CheckFreePay’s operations, we have established and we maintain a program to provide a system of controls and procedures reasonably designed to detect, prevent and report actual or suspected violations of the BSA, money laundering statutes, anti-terrorism statutes and other illicit activity while assuring daily adherence to the BSA. In addition, CheckFreePay currently maintains 40 licenses to comply with the various money transmitter statutes mentioned above, and is subject to annual audits by such jurisdictions.

Risk Factors—Risks Related to Our Business

The market for our electronic commerce services is evolving and may not continue to develop or grow rapidly enough for us to sustain profitability.

If the number of electronic commerce transactions does not continue to grow or if consumers or businesses do not continue to adopt our services, it could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and

 

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results of operations. We believe future growth in the electronic commerce market will be driven by the cost, ease-of-use, and quality of products and services offered to consumers and businesses. In order to consistently increase and maintain our profitability, consumers and businesses must continue to adopt our services.

Our future profitability depends upon our ability to implement our strategy successfully to increase adoption of electronic billing and payment methods.

Our future profitability will depend, in part, on our ability to implement our strategy successfully to increase adoption of electronic billing and payment methods. Our strategy includes investment of time and money during fiscal 2008 in programs designed to:

 

   

drive consumer awareness of electronic billing and payment;

 

   

encourage consumers to sign up for and use the electronic billing and payment services offered by our distribution partners;

 

   

address consumer concerns regarding privacy and security of their data in using electronic billing and payment services;

 

   

continue to refine our infrastructure to handle seamless processing of transactions;

 

   

continue to develop state-of-the-art, easy-to-use technology;

 

   

increase the number of bills we can present and pay electronically; and

 

   

successfully integrate Corillian online banking applications with CheckFree’s electronic billing and payment services.

If we do not successfully implement our strategy, revenue growth may be minimized, and expenditures for these programs will not be justified.

Our investment in these programs may have a negative impact on our short-term profitability. Additionally, our failure to implement these programs successfully or to substantially increase adoption of electronic commerce billing and payment methods by consumers could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

It is also possible that the significant amount of press connecting identity theft and online activities might inhibit the growth of consumers using the Internet, which could decrease the demand for our products or services, increase our cost of doing business or could otherwise have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Competitive pressures we face may have a material adverse effect on us.

We face significant competition in our each of our Divisions — Electronic Commerce, Software and Investment Services. Increased competition or other competitive pressures may result in price reductions, reduced margins or loss of business, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. Further, competition will persist and may increase and intensify in the future.

In the Electronic Commerce Division, we face significant competition for all of our products. Our primary competition is the continuance of traditional paper-based methods for receiving and paying bills, on the part of both consumers and billers. In addition, the possibility of billers and CSPs, including large bank clients, continuing to use or deciding to create in-house systems to handle their own electronic billing and payment transactions remains a significant competitive threat. Our large bank customers may explore the possibility of internally performing

 

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portions of the outsourced billing and payment services that we provide to them. In-house solutions have always been and will continue to be an option for our customers and a competitive factor facing our business.

Metavante, a division of Marshall and Ilsley Corporation, competes with us most directly from the perspective of providing pay anyone solutions to financial services organizations. In 2006, Online Resources Corp. completed the acquisition of Princeton eCom to become a larger full service banking, billing and bill payment competitor. A number of other companies compete with us by providing some, but not all, of the services that make up our complete e-bill and electronic pay anyone service. For example, Yodlee has publicly stated its strategy is to shift from being an account aggregation provider to become more of a bill payment processor, online banking provider and end-to-end financial services provider. Also, MasterCard International provides a service which allows electronic bill payments, and Visa has recently promoted heavily its credit and debit card products as a convenient means for consumers to pay their bills. Numerous small firms provide technologies that can enable these and other companies to compete with us, and we regularly monitor combinations and alliances of any of the above.

In the area of Internet consumer banking, we primarily compete with other companies that provide outsourced Internet finance solutions to large financial institutions, including S1 Corporation and Financial Fusion, Inc. Within this market segment, we also compete with companies that offer software platforms designed for internal development of Internet-based financial services software, such as IBM’s WebSphere, and the internal information technology personnel of financial institutions that want to develop their own solutions. In addition, we occasionally compete with vendors who primarily target community financial institutions with Internet banking solutions. For the business banking services that financial institutions offer their commercial customers, we also compete with vendors of cash management systems for large corporations.

Our products and services that allow consumers to pay billers directly also face competition. We compete with biller-direct billing and payment Internet sites. Western Union and MoneyGram compete with our walk-in payment services. Each has a national network of retail and agent locations. We also compete with smaller walk-in payment providers in different regions of the United States and with billers who have created in-house systems to handle walk-in payments. BillMatrix, a division of Fiserv, and SpeedPay, a division of Western Union, compete with our phone payments business.

We expect competition to continue to increase as new companies enter our markets and existing competitors expand their product lines and services. In addition, many companies that provide outsourced Internet finance solutions are consolidating, creating larger competitors with greater resources and broader product lines.

The markets for our Software and Investment Services products are also highly competitive. In Software, our competition comes from several different market segments and geographies, including large diversified computer software and service companies and independent suppliers of software products. In Investment Services, our competition comes primarily from providers of portfolio accounting software and outsourced services and from in-house solutions developed by large financial institutions.

Security and privacy breaches in our electronic transactions may damage customer relations and inhibit our growth.

Any failures in our security and privacy measures could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. We electronically transfer large sums of money and store personal information about consumers, including bank account and credit card information, social security numbers and merchant account numbers. If we are unable to protect, or consumers perceive that we are unable to protect, the security and privacy of our electronic transactions, our growth and the growth of the electronic commerce market in general could be materially adversely affected. A security or privacy breach may:

 

   

cause our customers to lose confidence in our services;

 

   

deter consumers from using our services;

 

   

harm our reputation;

 

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expose us to liability;

 

   

increase our expenses from potential remediation costs; and

 

   

decrease market acceptance of electronic commerce transactions.

New trends in criminal acquisition and illegal use of personally identifiable data make maintaining the security and privacy of such data more costly and time intensive. The increased cost, along with the increased ability of organized criminal elements focusing on identity theft and identity fraud, may materially impact our reputation as a provider of secure electronic billing and payment services.

While we believe that we utilize proven applications designed for data security and integrity to process electronic transactions, there can be no assurance that our use of these applications will be sufficient to address changing market conditions or the security and privacy concerns of existing and potential subscribers.

We rely on third parties to distribute our electronic commerce and investment services products, which may not result in widespread adoption.

In Electronic Commerce, we rely on our contracts with financial services organizations, businesses, billers, Internet portals and other third parties to provide branding for our electronic commerce services and to market our services to their customers. Similarly, in Investment Services, we rely upon financial institutions, including broker dealers, money managers and investment advisors, to market investment accounts to consumers and thereby increase portfolios on our CheckFree APL system and use of our portfolio management software products. These contracts are an important source of the growth in demand for our electronic commerce and investment service products. If any of these third parties abandons, curtails or insufficiently increases its marketing efforts, it could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Consolidation in the financial services industry may adversely affect our ability to sell our electronic commerce services, investment services and software.

Mergers, acquisitions and personnel changes at key financial services organizations have the potential to adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. This consolidation could cause us to lose:

 

   

current and potential customers;

 

   

business opportunities, if combined financial services organizations were to determine that it is more efficient to develop in-house services similar to ours or offer our competitors’ products or services; and

 

   

revenue, if combined financial services organizations were able to negotiate a greater volume discount for, or discontinue the use of, our products and services.

We may be unsuccessful in integrating acquisitions, which could result in increased expenditures or cause us to fail to achieve anticipated cost savings or revenue growth.

We are currently seeking to integrate recently acquired businesses as described in this report, including our acquisitions of Carreker, Corillian and Upstream. There are risks inherent in these types of transactions, such as: difficulty in assimilating or integrating the operations, technology, platforms and personnel of the combined companies; difficulties and costs associated with integrating and evaluating the internal control systems of acquired businesses; disruption of our ongoing business, including loss of management focus on existing businesses and marketplace developments; problems retaining key technical and managerial personnel; expenses associated with the amortization of identifiable intangible assets; additional or unanticipated operating losses, expenses or liabilities

 

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of acquired businesses; impairment of relationships with existing employees, customers and business partners; and fluctuations in value and losses that may arise from equity investments.

One customer accounts for a significant percentage of our consolidated revenues.

We have one customer, Bank of America, that accounted for approximately 19% of our total consolidated revenues ($189.5 million) for fiscal year 2007, which reflects its use of products and service sin all three of our business segments. The majority of this revenue comes from within our Electronic Commerce Division. The loss or renegotiation of our Electronic Commerce Division contract with Bank of America or a significant decline in the number of transactions we process for it could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. No other customer accounts for more than 10% of our consolidated revenues.

If we do not successfully renew or renegotiate our agreements with our customers, our business may suffer.

Our agreements for electronic commerce services with financial services organizations generally provide for terms of two to five years. Our agreements with our portfolio management customers are generally for similar terms. If we are not able to renew or renegotiate these agreements on favorable terms as they expire, it could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

The profitability of our Software Division and certain software products in our Electronic Commerce Division depend, to a substantial degree, upon our software customers electing to annually renew their maintenance agreements. If a substantial number of our software customers declined to renew these agreements, our revenues and profits in this business segment would be materially adversely affected.

Our future profitability depends on a decrease in the cost of processing payment transactions.

If we are unable to continue to decrease the cost of processing transactions, our margins could decrease, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. Many factors contribute to our ability to decrease the cost of processing transactions, including our Sigma quality program, our customer care efficiency program, our processing technology optimization program, and our focus on continually increasing the number of transactions we process electronically. Our electronic rate, or percentage of transactions processed electronically, was approximately 84% at the end of fiscal years 2005, 2006 and 2007.

We experience seasonal and other fluctuations in our revenues causing our operating results to fluctuate.

We have historically experienced seasonal fluctuations in our software sales, and we expect to experience similar fluctuations in the future. Our software sales and associated license revenue have historically been affected by calendar year end, our fiscal year end, buying patterns of financial services organizations and our sales compensation structure, which measures sales performance at our June 30 fiscal year end.

Further, in our Electronic Commerce Division, we often experience fluctuations in transaction volume and revenue on a quarterly basis. Our analysis has revealed a previously undetected cyclical pattern within the quarters of a given fiscal year that does not impact overall annual transaction growth. We have learned that the sequence of long months or short months in a given quarter, the sequence of long or short months before and after a quarter end date and the mix of processing and non-processing days within the quarter affects sequential quarterly transaction growth. We now believe that, barring unusual events, CSP based sequential quarterly transaction growth in the first and fourth quarters of our fiscal year tends to be lower than CSP based sequential quarterly transaction growth in the second and third quarters of our fiscal year. As a result, we believe we are better able to forecast transaction growth; however, there can be no assurance that we will always be able to accurately forecast such growth. While we do not believe we have identified all factors that could negatively or positively affect transaction growth, including various consumer behavior patterns, we believe that recent consumers to the service engage in fewer transactions than new consumers added to the service in previous years. A slow down in our transaction growth could have a negative impact on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Seasonality and other quarterly fluctuations can impact our quarterly revenue.

 

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The transactions we process expose us to fraud and credit risks.

Losses resulting from returned transactions, merchant fraud or erroneous transmissions could result in liability to financial services organizations, merchants or subscribers, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. Although ameliorated by reversibility arrangements with many billers, the electronic and conventional paper-based transactions we process expose us to credit risks. These include risks arising from returned transactions caused by:

 

   

insufficient funds;

 

   

unauthorized use;

 

   

stop payment orders;

 

   

payment disputes;

 

   

closed accounts;

 

   

theft;

 

   

frozen accounts; and

 

   

fraud.

We are also exposed to credit risk from merchant fraud and erroneous transmissions.

The attempts by both federal and state governments to combat identity fraud may impose restrictions on the financial community which make the appropriate sharing of data for fraud prevention impractical and overly burdensome. In the event of legislation, our ability to mitigate fraud costs and write-offs maybe negatively impacted.

If we, or our implementation partners, do not effectively implement our solutions acquired from Corillian, we may not achieve anticipated revenues or gross margins.

Our solutions acquired from Corillian are complex and must integrate with other complex data processing systems. Implementing those solutions is a lengthy process, generally taking between three and nine months to complete. In addition, we generally recognize revenues on a percentage-of-completion basis, so our revenues are often dependent on our ability to complete implementations within the time periods that we establish for our projects. We rely on a combination of internal and outsourced teams for our implementations. If these teams encounter significant delays in implementing our solutions for a customer or fail to implement our solutions effectively or at all, we may be unable to recognize any revenues from the contract or may incur losses from the contract if our revised project estimates indicate that we recognized excess revenues in prior periods. In addition, we may incur monetary damages or penalties if we are not successful in completing projects on schedule.

From time to time, we agree to penalty provisions in our contracts that require us to make payments to our customers if we fail to meet specified milestones or that permit our customers to terminate their contracts with us if we fail to meet specified milestones. If we fail to perform in accordance with established project schedules, we may be forced to make substantial payments as penalties or refunds and may lose our contractual relationship with the applicable customers.

We may experience significant losses due to our reliance on agents for walk-in payment services.

Through our contractual relationships with billers, we guarantee consumer payments made at our retail agent locations regardless of whether an agent makes timely deposits of funds collected. We could suffer significant losses if we are unable to manage and control agents making correct and timely deposits, or if we are unable to maintain a sufficient retail agent network.

 

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We may experience breakdowns in our processing systems that could damage customer relations and expose us to liability.

We depend heavily on the reliability of our processing systems in both our Electronic Commerce and Investment Services Divisions. A system outage or data loss could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. Not only would we suffer damage to our reputation in the event of a system outage or data loss, but we may also be liable to third parties or owe service credits to our customers. Many of our contractual agreements with financial institutions require the payment of credits if our systems do not meet certain operating standards. In addition, in our Electronic Commerce Division, we guarantee the delivery of payments, and any failure on our part to perform may result in late payments or penalties to third parties on behalf of subscribers to our services. In our Investment Services Division, a failure of our system could result in incorrect or mistimed stock trades that may result in third party liability. To successfully operate our business, we must be able to protect our processing and other systems from interruption, including from events that may be beyond our control. Events that could cause system interruptions include but are not limited to:

 

   

fire;

 

   

natural disaster;

 

   

pandemic outbreak;

 

   

unauthorized entry;

 

   

power loss;

 

   

telecommunications failure;

 

   

computer viruses;

 

   

terrorist acts; and

 

   

war.

Although we have taken steps to protect against data loss and system failures, there is still risk that we may lose critical data or experience system failures. Currently, with the exception of CheckFree APL, we outsource some of our disaster recovery operations to a third party vendor, which puts us at risk of the vendor’s unresponsiveness in the event of breakdowns in our systems. Furthermore, our property and business interruption insurance may not be adequate to compensate us for all losses or failures that may occur.

We may experience software defects, computer viruses and development delays, which could damage customer relations, decrease our potential profitability and expose us to liability.

Our products are based on sophisticated software and computing systems that often encounter development delays, and the underlying software may contain undetected errors, viruses or defects. Defects in our software products and errors or delays in our processing of electronic transactions could result in:

 

   

additional development costs;

 

   

diversion of technical and other resources from our other development efforts;

 

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loss of credibility with current or potential customers;

 

   

harm to our reputation; or

 

   

exposure to liability claims.

In addition, we rely on technologies supplied to us by third parties that may also contain undetected errors, viruses or defects that could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. Although we attempt to limit our potential liability for warranty claims through disclaimers in our software documentation and limitation-of-liability provisions in our license and customer agreements, we cannot assure you that these measures will be successful in limiting our liability.

Our products and services must interact with other vendors’ products, which may result in system errors.

Our products are often used in transaction processing systems that include other vendors’ products, and, as a result, our products must integrate successfully with these existing systems. System errors, whether caused by our products or those of another vendor, could adversely affect the market acceptance of our products, and any necessary modifications could cause us to incur significant expenses.

If we do not respond to rapid technological change or changes in industry standards, our services could become obsolete and we could lose our customers.

If competitors introduce new products and services embodying new technologies, or if new industry standards and practices emerge, our existing product and service offerings, proprietary technology and systems may become obsolete. Further, if we fail to adopt or develop new technologies or to adapt our products and services to emerging industry standards, we may lose current and future customers, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. The financial services industry is changing rapidly. To remain competitive, we must continue to enhance and improve the functionality and features of our products, services and technologies.

We may be unable to protect our intellectual property and technology, permitting competitors to duplicate our products and services.

Our success and ability to compete depends, in part, upon our proprietary technology, which includes several patents for our electronic billing and payment processing system and our operating technology. We rely primarily on patent, copyright, trade secret and trademark laws to protect our technology. We also enter into confidentiality and assignment agreements with our employees, consultants and vendors, and generally control access to and distribution of our software documentation and other intellectual property. We also limit customer use of our intellectual property by entering into license agreements which limit the scope of a customer’s use of the intellectual property. We cannot assure you that these measures will provide all of the protection that we need.

Because our means of protecting our intellectual property rights may not be adequate, it may be possible for a third party to copy, reverse engineer or otherwise obtain and use our technology without authorization. In addition, the laws of some countries in which we sell our products do not protect software and intellectual property rights to the same extent as the laws of the United States. A competitor may also be able to sidestep our intellectual property rights by performing key process steps in foreign countries where our United States patent protection does not apply or where we do not have separate intellectual property protection. Unauthorized copying, use or reverse engineering of our products could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

A third party also could claim that our technology infringes its proprietary rights. As the number of software products in our target markets increases and the functionality of these products overlap, we believe that software developers may increasingly face infringement claims. In addition, there has been an increase in patent activity by financial firms during recent years which may increase the number of infringement claims in our market

 

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space. These claims, even if without merit, can be time-consuming and expensive to defend. A third party asserting infringement claims against us in the future may require us to enter into costly royalty arrangements or litigation.

Our business could become subject to increased government regulation, which could make our business more expensive to operate.

Our business is currently subject to numerous rules and regulations promulgated by various local, state and federal governmental entities and it is likely that this regulation may increase or change in the future. Such increase or change could make our business more expensive to operate and our products less desirable to use. In particular, due to increased focus by the government on terrorist activities, we may see additional regulation and enforcement targeted at money laundering or making payments to certain prohibited individuals or groups. We have noticed an increased focus by the federal banking regulators, as well as OFAC, on the processing of electronic payments and this focus may shift to us, and other businesses like ours, in the future. FinCEN, the principal federal regulator charged with regulating money services businesses, continues to provide further interpretation on the meaning of “money transmission.” If those interpretations become applicable to our business, then we may be obligated to comply with significant additional regulatory obligations. Various governmental entities have become interested in further regulating the use and sharing of data and protection of the privacy of this data. This interest will likely result in increased regulation around security and privacy of personally identifiable information. It is also possible that new laws and regulations may be enacted with respect to the Internet, including taxation of electronic commerce activities. Because electronic commerce in general, and most of our products and services in particular, are so new, the effect of an increase in regulation or amendment to existing regulation is uncertain and difficult to predict. Any such changes, however, could lead to increased operating costs and reduce the convenience and functionality of our products or services, possibly resulting in reduced market acceptance.

The Federal Reserve rules with respect to its ACH Network incorporate the National Automated Clearinghouse Association (“NACHA”) Rules which provide that we can only access the ACH Network through a bank. If the NACHA Rules, which are incorporated into the Federal Reserves rules governing its ACH Network, were to change to further restrict our access to the ACH Network or limit our ability to provide ACH transaction processing services, it could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Our walk-in payment business is subject to government regulation and any violation of such regulations could result in civil or criminal penalties or a prohibition against providing money transmitter services in particular jurisdictions.

We conduct our walk-in payment business through CheckFreePay. CheckFreePay is licensed as a money transmitter in those states where such licensure is required. These licenses require CheckFreePay to demonstrate and maintain certain levels of net worth and liquidity and also require CheckFreePay to file periodic reports. In addition to state licensing requirements, CheckFreePay is subject to regulation in the United States by FinCEN, including anti-money laundering regulations and certain restrictions on transactions to or from certain individuals or entities. CheckFreePay has developed a program to monitor its business for compliance with regulatory requirements and has developed and implemented policies and procedures to monitor all of its transactions in order to comply with federal reporting and recordkeeping requirements. Notwithstanding these efforts, the complexity of these regulations will continue to increase our cost of doing business. In addition, any violations of law may result in civil or criminal penalties against us and our officers or the prohibition against us providing money transmitter services in particular jurisdictions.

A weak economy could have a materially adverse impact on our business.

A weak United States economy could have a material adverse impact on our business. In a weak economy, companies may postpone or cancel new software purchases or limit the amount of money they spend on technology and marketing. In our Investment Services Division, growth depends upon individuals and companies continuing to invest in the United States equity markets.

 

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Our quarterly operating results fluctuate and may not accurately predict our future performance.

Our quarterly results of operations have varied significantly and probably will continue to do so in the future as a result of a variety of factors, many of which are outside our control. These factors include:

 

   

changes in our pricing policies or those of our competitors;

 

   

loss of customers due to competitors or in-house solutions;

 

   

relative rates of acquisition of new customers;

 

   

seasonal patterns;

 

   

delays in the introduction of new or enhanced services, software and related products by us or our competitors or market acceptance of these products and services; and

 

   

other changes in operating expenses, personnel and general economic conditions.

As a result, we believe that period-to-period comparisons of our operating results are not necessarily predictive of our future results, and you should not rely on them as an indication of our future performance. In addition, our operating results in a future quarter or quarters may fall below expectations of securities analysts or investors and, as a result, the price of our common stock may fluctuate.

Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

Overview

CheckFree was founded in 1981 as an electronic payment processing company and has become a leading provider of financial electronic commerce products and services. Our current business was developed through the expansion of our core electronic payments business and the acquisition of companies operating similar or complementary businesses.

We operate our business through three independent but inter-related divisions:

 

   

Electronic Commerce;

 

   

Software; and

 

   

Investment Services.

Our Electronic Commerce Division products enable consumers to:

 

   

review bank accounts,

 

   

receive and pay bills over the Internet; and

 

   

pay billers directly through biller-direct sites, by telephone or through our walk-in retail agent network.

For the year ended June 30, 2007, we processed more than 1.3 billion payment transactions and delivered approximately 226 million electronic bills (“e-bills”). For the quarter ended June 30, 2007, we processed approximately 344 million payment transactions and delivered nearly 61 million e-bills. The number of payment transactions we process and the number of e-bills we deliver each year continue to grow. For the year ended

 

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June 30, 2007, growth in the number of consumer service provider (“CSP”) based payment transactions we processed was nearly 24%, growth in total transactions processed exceeded 16% and growth in the number of e-bills we delivered exceeded 22%. Our Electronic Commerce Division accounted for approximately 74% of our fiscal 2007 consolidated revenues.

Through our Software Division, we provide software, maintenance, support and consulting services, through four product lines. These product lines are global treasury, reconciliation and exception management, transaction process management, and electronic billing. Our Software Division operates both domestically and internationally, and accounted for approximately 13% of our consolidated revenues in the year ended June 30, 2007.

Through our Investment Services Division, we provide a range of portfolio management services to help financial institutions, including broker dealers, money managers and investment advisors. As of June 30, 2007, our clients used the CheckFree APLSM portfolio management system (“CheckFree APL”) to manage nearly 2.7 million portfolios. Our Investment Services Division accounted for approximately 13% of our consolidated revenues in the year ended June 30, 2007.

Executive Summary

A number of events have had an impact on our operating results when comparing the fiscal year ended June 30, 2007 to the fiscal year ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively.

 

   

Our acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Upstream Technologies LLC (“Upstream”) for $28 million in cash in May 2007, and for which we incurred $0.9 million of integration-related costs through June 30, 2007;

 

   

Our acquisition of Corillian Corporation (“Corillian”) for $245 million in cash in May 2007, and for which we incurred $2.6 million of integration-related costs through June 30, 2007;

 

   

Our acquisition of Carreker Corporation (“Carreker”) for $206 million in cash in April 2007, and for which we incurred $2.6 million of integration-related costs through June 30, 2007;

 

   

The vesting of one million performance-based warrants held by a customer, resulting in a non-cash charge of $11.0 million against revenue in the quarter ended March 31, 2007;

 

   

The divestiture of our M-Solutions business unit for $18.6 million in February 2006, which was accounted for as a discontinued operation;

 

   

Our acquisition of PhoneCharge, Inc. (“PhoneCharge”) for $100 million in cash in January 2006;

 

   

Slower than expected transaction growth in the quarters ended June 20, 2006 and September 30, 2006;

 

   

The negative impact on interest-based revenue from our largest bank customer migrating from a processing model that guarantees funds to our standard risk-based processing model during the quarter ended March 31, 2006;

 

   

The expiration of our agreements with First Data Corporation (“FDC”) in August 2005 and Microsoft Corporation (“Microsoft”) in December 2005, reducing year-over-year minimum-based revenue by $21.0 million, and the related completion of the amortization of intangible assets in September 2005 resulting from our September 2000 acquisition of MSFDC, L.L.C. (“TransPoint”), eliminating $16.5 million of year-over-year amortization expense;

 

   

Our purchase of substantially all of the assets of Aphelion, Inc. (“Aphelion”)for $18.1 million in cash in October 2005; and

 

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Our purchase of substantially all of the assets of Integrated Decision Systems, Inc. (“IDS”) for $18.0 million in cash in September 2005.

Due to growth in all of our business segments, including the positive and negative impacts of the items identified above, our consolidated revenue grew by nearly 11% during the year ended June 30, 2007. We earned income from continuing operations of $190.9 million in the year ended June 30, 2007, an increase of about 3% over the $186.1 million earned last year.

Revenue in our Electronic Commerce Division of $723.1 million for the year ended June 30, 2007, represents growth of 9% over the prior year. Excluding the $11.0 million charge for warrants to a customer and the impact of purchase accounting on deferred revenue of $2.7 million, year over year revenue growth would be 11%. Including the impact of telephone bill payments we acquired with PhoneCharge in January 2006, our volume of transactions processed grew by greater than 16%, to more than 1.3 billion for the year ended June 30, 2007, over the more than 1.1 billion we processed last year. We delivered approximately 226 million e-bills in the year ended June 30, 2007, representing a 22% increase above the nearly 185 million e-bills we delivered during the year ended June 30, 2006. Our acquisitions of Corillian in May 2007, the revenue enhancement (“RevE”) service of Carreker in April 2007, and Aphelion in October 2005 provided additional revenue to our Electronic Commerce business. Offsetting growth in our Electronic Commerce business were the previously mentioned $11.0 million non-cash charge against revenue for warrants held by a customer that vested in the quarter ended March 31, 2007, the impact of purchase accounting adjustments to deferred revenue related to Corillian and the RevE service from Carreker, the decline in revenues from Microsoft and FDC, and reductions in interest-based revenue resulting from our largest bank customer migrating to our standard risk-based payment processing model in the quarter ended March 31, 2006.

Successful efforts to improve efficiency and quality have resulted in lower cost per transaction, allowing us to share scale efficiencies with our customers through volume-based pricing discounts. When combined with the aforementioned reductions of high margin revenue minimums and interest-based revenue, and absent the non-cash charge for warrants, our Electronic Commerce operating margin has declined from 37% for the year ended June 30, 2006, to 35% for the year ended June 30, 2007.

During the quarters ended June 30, 2006 and September 30, 2006, we experienced sequential quarterly transaction growth which was lower than our expectations. Since then, we have performed analysis on the causes, including a regression analysis of key transaction volume drivers on a large portion of our CSP customers for our last four fiscal years. Our analysis has revealed a previously undetected cyclical pattern within the quarters of a given fiscal year that does not impact overall annual transaction growth. We have learned that the sequence of long months or short months in a given quarter, the sequence of long or short months before and after a quarter end date and the mix of processing and non-processing days within the quarter affects sequential quarterly transaction growth. We now believe that, barring unusual events, CSP based sequential quarterly transaction growth in the first and fourth quarters of our fiscal year tends to be lower than CSP based sequential quarterly transaction growth in the second and third quarters of our fiscal year. As a result, we believe we are better able to forecast transaction activity; however, we cannot assure that we will always be able to accurately forecast such growth. While we do not believe we have identified all factors that could affect transaction growth, including various consumer behavior patterns, we believe that recent consumers to the service engage in fewer transactions than new consumers added to the service in previous years. Finally, our analysis has revealed that it is important for investors to understand the differing growth patterns between CSP and non-CSP customers. Therefore, we have enhanced the reporting of our Electronic Commerce Division metrics to include separate revenue and volume trends for our CSP, non-CSP and e-bill delivery customers.

Revenue in our Software Division of $125.5 million for the year ended June 30, 2007, represents growth of 15% over last year due primarily to our acquisition of Carreker, but also due to stronger sales in our global treasury and securities products in fiscal 2007. Excluding the $9.7 million impact of purchase accounting on deferred revenue, year over year revenue growth would have been 24%. Our operating margin decreased slightly from 19% for the year ended June 30, 2006 to 18% for the current year due primarily to the addition of a breakeven Carreker business in the quarter ended June 30, 2007.

 

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Our Investment Services Division generated 17% year-over-year growth in portfolios managed to more nearly 2.7 million as of June 30, 2007, from nearly 2.3 million for the previous year. We continue to invest heavily in the rewrite of our CheckFree APL operating system, named CheckFree EPL SM (Enhanced Portfolio Lifecycle). Despite the resulting lower near-term operating margin, we expect this investment to provide us the opportunity to expand our services into the rapidly growing separately managed accounts (“SMA” and “SMAs”) market. In September 2005, we purchased substantially all of the assets of Integrated Decision Systems, Inc. (“IDS”) and, in February 2006, we divested our M-Solutions business. Along with steady underlying portfolio growth, we expect our operating margin in Investment Services to remain in the upper teens to low twenty percent level until we complete our system rewrite and the related migration of our customer base to the new operating platform.

During the quarter ended September 30, 2006, we repurchased 2,637,747 shares of our common stock for $100 million, and during the quarter ended December 31, 2006, we repurchased another 1,273,807 shares for $50 million, at a combined weighted average per share price of $38.35. Additionally, due to the further use of cash combined with draws against our revolving credit facility to fund our acquisitions of Carreker, Corillian and Upstream, we ended fiscal 2007 with a $204 million outstanding balance on the revolving credit facility.

As you review our historical financial information in this document, you should be aware that, in the quarter ended March 31, 2006, we divested of M-Solutions, a business within our Investment Services segment. SFAS 144, “Accounting for the Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets,” requires that we report the results of operations from the divested business separately as earnings from discontinued operations for all periods presented. Therefore, we have restated historical statements of operations data for the year ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, to exclude M-Solutions from income from continuing operations.

The following table sets forth as percentages of total revenues, consolidated statements of operations data:

 

     Year Ended June 30,  
     2007     2006     2005  

Total revenues

   100.0 %   100.0 %   100.0 %

Expenses:

      

Cost of processing, servicing and support

   41.2     39.0     39.6  

Research and development

   11.5     11.6     10.7  

Sales and marketing

   10.1     9.9     9.2  

General and administrative

   8.1     7.0     7.7  

Depreciation and amortization

   9.3     11.3     23.4  

Reorganization charge

   —       —       0.7  
                  

Total expenses

   80.4     78.8     91.3  

Income from continuing operation before other income and expenses

   19.6     21.2     8.7  

Equity in net loss of joint venture

   (0.1 )   (0.4 )   (0.4 )

Interest income

   1.3     1.5     1.2  

Interest expense

   (0.3 )   (0.1 )   (0.1 )
                  

Income from continuing operations before income taxes

   20.5     22.2     9.4  

Income tax expense

   7.7     8.5     3.3  
                  

Income from continuing operations

   12.8     13.7     6.1  

Earnings from discontinued operations before income taxes (including gain on disposal of $12,821,000 in FY 2006)

   —       1.6     0.2  

Income tax expense on discontinued operations

   —       0.9     0.1  
                  

Income from discontinued operation

   —       0.7     0.1  
                  

Net income

   12.8 %   14.4 %   6.2 %
                  

 

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Results of Operations

Years Ended June 30, 2007 and 2006

The following table sets forth our consolidated revenues for the years ended June 30, 2007 and 2006, respectively:

Total Revenues (000’s)

 

     June 30,    Change  
     2007    2006    $    %  

Year ended

   $ 972,644    $ 879,402    $ 93,242    10.6 %

Our growth in total revenues of 10.6% was driven by 9% growth in our Electronic Commerce business, 15% growth in our Software business and 16% growth in our Investment Services business.

Overall growth in Electronic Commerce, including the acquisition of Corillian in May 2007 and the RevE service from the acquisition of Carreker in April 2007, continued to be driven primarily by more than 16% growth in transactions processed, from more than 1.1 billion in the year ended June 30, 2006, to more than 1.3 billion in the year ended June 30, 2007. Included in our transaction-based revenue was a full year of operations from our acquisition of PhoneCharge in January 2006, against only six months of operations in the prior year. We delivered approximately 226 million e-bills during fiscal 2007, a growth rate exceeding 22% over the nearly 185 million e-bills delivered during fiscal 2006. We have experienced growth in our Health & Fitness products, driven primarily by our acquisition of Aphelion in October 2005. Also, our previously mentioned acquisition of Corillian and the RevE service from Carreker provided more than $23 million of additional revenue on a combined basis in our year ended June 30,2007. Revenue growth has been negatively impacted by several factors over the past year. We have established pricing models that provide volume-based discounts in order to share scale efficiencies with our customers. As a result of continued transaction growth and better utilization of efficiencies of scale, our CSP based average revenue per transaction continued to decline. During fiscal 2006, our TransPoint related contracts with Microsoft and FDC expired, which, on a combined basis, negatively impacted total company revenue growth by about 2%. Also, our largest bank customer migrated from a processing model that guarantees funds, to our standard risk-based processing model, which negatively impacted our interest-based revenue. Finally, within the quarter ended March 31, 2007, we recorded a non-cash charge of $11.0 million as a reduction in revenue for the fair value of one million performance-based warrants held by a bank customer that vested in the quarter.

Growth in our Software business has been driven primarily by increased sales of our global treasury and securities products, also known as transaction process management, combined with modest growth in maintenance revenue resulting from new license sales and positive annual customer retention, offset somewhat by lower consulting services revenue. Additionally, our acquisition of Carreker provided a full quarter of new license, maintenance and professional services revenue, albeit discounted by the impact of purchase accounting on deferred revenue assumed in the acquisition.

Growth in Investment Services revenue was driven primarily by a 17% increase in portfolios managed, from nearly 2.3 million at June 30, 2006, to nearly 2.7 million as of June 30, 2007. We continue to add new portfolios to our CheckFree APL system at lower price points, driven by increased volume coming from lower priced broker dealers, and by conscious price reductions at contract renewal, where we trade off near-term revenue growth against long-term strategic advantage. Additionally, our acquisition of IDS in September 2005 provided a full year of revenue during fiscal 2007 versus just over three quarters in fiscal 2006. We received little revenue from our May 31, 2007 acquisition of Upstream.

Across all segments of our business, for the year ended June 30, 2007, Bank of America generated total revenue of $189.5 million, which exceeded 19% of our consolidated revenues. The majority of this revenue comes from within our Electronic Commerce Division. Bank of America revenue was positively impacted by their acquisition of Fleet Bank, not previously a customer of ours, and MBNA, which was previously a customer but is now included in Bank of America’s revenue. Our Electronic Commerce agreement with Bank of America has a

 

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10-year term expiring in 2010. The contract includes annual minimum revenue guarantees of $50.0 million, provides tiered pricing which reflects the volume of activity provided by Bank of America and provides for up to five million incentive-based warrants that the bank can earn upon reaching various levels of subscriber adoption and the delivery of e-bills, one million of which the bank earned in the quarter ended March 31, 2007. Bank of America remains the only customer that exceeds 10% of our consolidated revenues.

The following tables set forth comparative revenues, by type, for the years ended June 30, 2007 and 2006, respectfully.

Processing and Servicing Revenue (000’s)

 

     June 30,    Change  
     2007    2006    $    %  

Year ended

   $ 809,814    $ 754,076    $ 55,738    7.4 %

We earn processing and servicing revenue in both our Electronic Commerce and our Investment Services businesses. Annual revenue growth was driven primarily by growth in payment transactions processed and e-bills delivered within Electronic Commerce as well as portfolio growth within Investment Services. Total payment transactions increased by more than 16%, from more than 1.1 billion for the year ended June 30, 2006 to more than 1.3 billion for the year ended June 30, 2007, composed of approximately 24% growth in CSP based transactions and a decline of 4% in non-CSP based transactions. Revenue growth from CSP based payment transaction growth was offset by tier-based volume pricing discounts, the expiration of the monthly minimum revenue guarantees from Microsoft in December 2005 and FDC in August 2005, and the negative impact on interest-based revenue from the migration of our largest bank customer from a processing model that guarantees funds to our standard risk-based processing model; all of which, on a combined basis, resulted in a $0.10 decrease in average revenue per CSP transaction for the year. This revenue per transaction decrease does not reflect the $11.0 million non-cash warrant charge in the quarter ended March 31, 2007. Our acquisition of PhoneCharge in January 2006 provided transaction growth in relatively high-priced phone-based payments in our non-CSP based business. This growth was offset by a decline in walk-in payments as customers began shifting to a consumer fee-based pricing model, which provides us with fewer, but more profitable, transactions and a decline in payments made directly at biller websites. The change in the mix within the non-CSP area resulted in a $0.13 increase in average revenue per non-CSP transaction for the year. We delivered approximately 226 million e-bills during the year ended June 30, 2007, representing an increase of 22% over the nearly 185 million e-bills delivered in the previous year. We experienced year-over-year growth in our Health & Fitness products, driven primarily by our acquisition of Aphelionin October 2005. We experienced 17% growth in portfolios managed in our Investment Services division, from nearly 2.3 million as of June 30, 2006, to nearly 2.7 million as of June 30, 2007.

During the quarters ended June 30, 2006 and September 30, 2006, we experienced sequential quarterly transaction growth which was lower than our expectations. We experienced a greater-than-expected dip in transactions in April 2006 combined with transaction growth for the rest of the quarter that was not as significant as previous years, and a slowdown in consumer activity at our largest bank customer. Since then, we have performed analysis on the causes, including a regression analysis of key transaction volume drivers on a large portion of our CSP customers for our last four fiscal years. We have learned that the sequence of long months or short months in a given quarter, the sequence of long or short months before and after a quarter-end date and the mix of processing and non-processing days within the quarter affects sequential quarterly transaction growth. We have also learned that the slowdown in consumer activity at our largest bank customer was affected by the combination of that customer’s shift to our standard risk-based processing model in the quarter ended March 31, 2006, and a somewhat slower transaction growth rate given the industry-leading consumer penetration at that customer.

Our analysis has revealed a previously undetected cyclical pattern within the quarters of a given fiscal year that does not impact overall annual transaction growth. We now believe that, barring unusual events, CSP-based sequential quarterly transaction growth in the first and fourth quarters of our fiscal year tends to be lower than CSP-based sequential quarterly transaction growth in the second and third quarters of our fiscal year. As a result, based on what we have learned over the past year, we believe we are better able to forecast transaction growth; however, we cannot assure that we will always be able to accurately forecast such growth. While we do not believe

 

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we have identified all factors that could affect transaction growth, including various consumer behavior patterns, and while we will continue to analyze our transaction growth patterns for evidence of other such factors, we believe that recent consumers to the service engage in fewer transactions than new consumers added to the service in previous years. Our analysis has revealed that it is important for investors to understand the differing growth patterns between CSP and non-CSP customers. Therefore, as previously mentioned, we have enhanced the reporting of our Electronic Commerce Division metrics to include separate revenue and volume trends for our CSP, non-CSP and e-bill delivery customers.

License Fee Revenue (000’s)

 

     June 30,    Change  
     2007    2006    $    %  

Year ended

   $ 46,209    $ 35,196    $ 11,013    31.3 %

Historically, we derived license fee revenue almost entirely from product sales in our Software Division. However, with our May 2007 acquisition of Corillian, we will begin to reflect meaningful license fee revenue in our Electronic Commerce Division. Growth in license fee revenue is due primarily to increased sales of our global treasury products in fiscal 2007, due in large part to the successful integration of products resulting from our acquisition of Accurate Software, Ltd. (“Accurate”) in April 2005. Additionally, our acquisitions of Carreker and Corillian in the quarter ended June 30, 2007 contributed approximately 7% of our license revenue growth for the year.

Maintenance Fee Revenue (000’s)

 

     June 30,    Change  
     2007    2006    $    %  

Year ended

   $ 55,217    $ 42,218    $ 12,999    30.8 %

Maintenance fees, which represent annually renewable product support for our software customers, primarily relate to our Software Division, and tend to grow with incremental license sales from previous periods. Our maintenance base continues to grow as a result of recent license sales, high annual customer retention, and moderate price increases across all of our Software businesses. However, our September 2005 acquisition of IDS within our Investment Services Division, our April 2007 acquisition of Carreker within our Software Division and our May 2007 acquisition of Corillian within our Electronic Commerce Division resulted in new sources of maintenance revenue for us, and represent nearly 16% of our annual growth in maintenance revenue on a combined basis. We recognize maintenance fees ratably over the term of the related contractual support period. Based on the nature of maintenance fees, we would expect minimal future growth without continued incremental license sales.

Professional Fee Revenue (000’s)

 

     June 30,    Change  
     2007    2006    $    %  

Year ended

   $ 61,404    $ 47,912    $ 13,492    28.2 %

Professional fee revenue consists primarily of consulting and implementation fees across all three of our divisions. Our expanded product lines over the past several years, including our acquisitions of Carreker, Corillian and Upstream in the quarter ended June 30, 2007, have provided us additional opportunities to offer services to our customers. On a combined basis, the addition of Carreker, Corillian and Upstream provided nearly 26% of our growth in professional services revenue for the year. Because professional fees are typically project oriented, they will fluctuate from period to period. Unlike most of our existing software applications, software products associated with our recent acquisitions of Carreker and Corillian require significant consulting services for customer installation and customization. Therefore, we expect growth in professional service fee revenue in the coming fiscal year. Growth in professional fees from our recent acquisitions has been offset somewhat by a modest decline in legacy software services due to fewer large contracts during fiscal 2007.

 

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Cost of Processing, Servicing and Support (000’s)

 

     June 30,  
     2007     2006  
     $    %
Revenue
    $    %
Revenue
 

Year ended

   $ 401,176    41.2 %   $ 342,535    39.0 %

Cost of processing, servicing and support, as a percentage of revenue, has increased by 2.3% on a year-over-year basis. Excluding the non-cash warrant charge in the quarter ended March 31, 2007, cost of processing, as a percentage of revenue, has increased by 1.8% on a year-over-year basis. This is due in large part to the previously mentioned loss of high margin Microsoft and FDC revenues in the first half of fiscal 2006 and the negative impact on interest-based revenue from our largest customer changing payment processing models in the quarter ended March 31, 2006. In both Electronic Commerce and Investment Services, we continue to focus investment on additional efficiency and quality improvement within our customer care processes and our information technology infrastructure, and are leveraging a significantly fixed cost infrastructure to drive improvement in cost per transaction processed and cost per portfolio managed. Within Electronic Commerce, our electronic payment rate is currently 84%. Electronic payments carry a significantly lower variable cost per unit than paper-based payments and are far less likely to result in a costly customer care claim. It is difficult to raise the electronic rate above the 84% level as it takes an increasing number of relatively small merchants to sign up for electronic payment receipt to improve the number a single percentage point. Also, a portion of the pay by phone transactions are credit card payments, carrying interchange fees, which place downward pressure on gross margins for that part of the business. Relatively high growth in credit card payments in the future could place downward pressure on the gains we expect from continued Six Sigma-based process improvements within our Electronic Commerce business. Looking forward, we expect some near-term pressure on our gross margin as we invest in resources to support our data center and high-availability disaster recovery efforts. These efforts began in earnest in the quarter ended June 30, 2006, and we expect continued incremental investment in this area well into fiscal 2008.

Due to the relative significance of the incremental maintenance and service fee revenue resulting from the acquisitions of Carreker and Corillian in the quarter ended June 30, 2007, nearly 3% of the growth in cost of processing, servicing and support has resulted from these two acquisitions alone.

Research and Development (000’s)

 

     June 30,  
     2007     2006  
     $    %
Revenue
    $    %
Revenue
 

Year ended

   $ 112,077    11.5 %   $ 101,854    11.6 %

Research and development cost as a percentage of revenue has remained fairly consistent over the past year as we continue to invest in product enhancement and productivity improvement initiatives in all of our core businesses, including the rewrite of our operating system within Investment Services, named CheckFree EPL. Testing of EPL has begun and we are currently scheduled to begin initial customer migration in the first half of fiscal 2008. We have incurred combined incremental research and development costs of about $6.7 million from our acquisitions of IDS in September 2005, Aphelion in October 2005, PhoneCharge in January 2006, Carreker in April 2007, Corillian in May 2007 and Upstream in May 2007.

 

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Sales and Marketing (000’s)

 

     June 30,  
     2007     2006  
     $    %
Revenue
    $    %
Revenue
 

Year ended

   $ 98,459    10.1 %   $ 87,418    9.9 %

Approximately 9% of the absolute dollar increase in sales and marketing expense is the combined result of our acquisitions of IDS, Aphelion, PhoneCharge, Carreker, Corillian and Upstream. In addition to the impact of acquisitions, growth in sales and marketing cost is mainly due to a general increase in sales costs in our Software Division related to license sales growth and an increase in marketing program costs in Electronic Commerce geared toward improved consumer adoption and greater insight into consumer behavior.

General and Administrative (000’s)

 

     June 30,  
     2007     2006  
     $    %
Revenue
    $    %
Revenue
 

Year ended

   $ 79,057    8.1 %   $ 61,948    7.0 %

Although acquisition related synergy actions were announced internally before June 30, 2007, certain of the associates within the general and administrative area will remain well into next fiscal year to ensure an effective migration of internal systems. Absent these carryover expenses, we have largely been able to leverage our general and administrative costs.

Depreciation and Amortization (000’s)

 

     June 30,  
     2007     2006  
     $    %
Revenue
    $    %
Revenue
 

Year ended

   $ 90,937    9.3 %   $ 99,530    11.3 %

Depreciation and amortization expenses resulting from the purchase of operating fixed assets and capitalized software development costs increased to $47.0 million for the year ended June 30, 2007, from $43.1 million for the year ended June 30, 2006. It should be noted that approximately $30 million of the year-over-year property, plant and equipment additions on our balance sheet for the year ended June 30,2007, relate to construction-in-progress for the addition of a data center facility. We do not expect to begin depreciating this asset until it becomes operational some time in the second quarter of fiscal 2008. The remainder of our depreciation and amortization expense represents purchase accounting amortization.

Despite additional amortization from intangible assets acquired from IDS in September 2005, Aphelion in October 2005, PhoneCharge in January 2006, Carreker in April 2007, Corillian in May 2007 and Upstream in May 2007, purchase accounting amortization expense decreased overall due to intangible assets that fully amortized during fiscal 2006. In particular, completion of the amortization of the TransPoint strategic agreements in the quarter ended September 30, 2005 resulted in a decrease in amortization expense of approximately $16.5 million on a year-over-year basis. We expect a full year of amortization of intangible assets resulting from the aforementioned acquisitions of Carreker, Corillian and Upstream will cause a relatively significant increase in purchase accounting amortization for the year ending June 30, 2008.

 

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Equity in Loss of Joint Venture (000’s)

 

     June 30,  
     2007     2006  
     $     %
Revenue
    $     %
Revenue
 

Year ended

   $ (1,078 )   (0.1 )%   $ (3,100 )   (0.4 )%

In April 2004, we announced a joint venture, OneVu Limited (“OneVu”), with Voca Limited (“Voca”), to create an integrated electronic billing and payment network for billers and banks in the United Kingdom. We have an equity interest of approximately 46.6% in OneVu and, therefore, we account for our interest in OneVu under the equity method of accounting. We provided 100% of OneVu’s necessary working capital requirements during its formative stage and, therefore, the equity in net loss of OneVu represented 100% of losses incurred by OneVu through March 31, 2006. In March 2006, we entered into an additional funding arrangement with Voca related to OneVu whereby both joint venture partners contributed approximately $830,000 in exchange for a security interest in OneVu subordinate to our previous funding. OneVu obtained a line of credit facility from a bank in the amount of approximately $2.7 million and we have guaranteed the credit facility. Accordingly, beginning in April 2006, we continued to record the operations of OneVu on the equity basis of accounting now recognizing 46.6% of the results of operations of OneVu. Because of our debt guarantee, our portion of the operating losses has caused the carrying value of our investment in the joint venture to fall below zero, becoming a liability in the quarter ended September 30, 2006. The liability will continue to increase as long as the joint venture incurs losses and will be reduced by our share of any profits.

Net Interest (000’s)

 

     June 30,  
     2007     2006  
     $     %
Revenue
    $     %
Revenue
 

Year ended

        

Interest income

   $ 12,693       $ 13,441    

Interest expense

     (3,099 )       (986 )  
                    

Net interest

   $ 9,594     1.0 %   $ 12,455     1.4 %
                    

Cash flow provided by operating activities during the year ended June 30, 2007 was used to fund a$150 million share repurchase program and a significant portion of our acquisitions of Carreker, Corillian and Upstream. The related decline in average invested assets for the year resulted in lower interest income. The remainder of our acquisition costs were funded through draws against our revolving credit facility in the quarter ended June 30, 2007. As of June 30, 2007 the outstanding balance on the revolving credit facility was approximately $204 million. The increase in interest expense is due primarily to the debt service on the revolving credit facility. Our data center financing agreement accumulated a balance of $40 million as of June 30, 2007; however, construction period interest expense related to the datacenter credit facility has been capitalized to construction-in-progress and interest expense from this credit facility will not impact our income statement until the data center is placed in service, currently expected in the second quarter of fiscal 2008.

Income Tax Expense (000’s)

 

     June 30,  
     2007     2006  
     $    Effective
Rate
    $    Effective
Rate
 

Year ended

   $ 75,016    37.6 %   $ 74,455    38.1 %

 

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Our overall blended statutory rate (federal, state and foreign combined) approached 38.5%. Our effective rate of 37.6% and 38.1% for the years ended June 30, 2007 and 2006, respectively, was lower than our blended statutory rate due to tax free municipal interest income earned on our investment portfolio, earned research and development tax credits and differing income tax rates in the various tax jurisdictions in which we operate, net of certain valuation allowances against net operating losses in certain tax jurisdictions that we do not anticipate using in the future.

Earnings from Discontinued Operations (000’s)

 

     June 30,  
     2007    2006  
     $    %
Revenue
   $    %
Revenue
 

Year ended

   —      —      $ 14,310    1.6 %

In the quarter ended March 31, 2006, we divested the assets of M-Solutions, a component of Investment Services. SFAS 144, “Accounting for the Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lives Assets,” requires that we report the results of operations from the divested business, including the $12.8 million gain on the sale, separately as earnings from discontinued operations for all periods presented. Other than the gain itself, M-Solutions historically provided modest earnings on an annual basis.

Income Tax Expense on Discontinued Operations (000’s)

 

     June 30,  
     2007    2006  
     $    Effective
Rate
   $    Effective
Rate
 

Year ended

   —      —      $ 8,064    56.4 %

Our earnings from discontinued operations include a $12.8 million gain on the sale of M-Solutions in the year ended June 30, 2006. Our book basis gain on the sale includes the impact of the related write-off of goodwill, which is non-deductible for income tax purposes. The higher tax basis gain on the sale resulted in an effective rate of 56.4% for fiscal 2006.

Years Ended June 30, 2006 and 2005

The following table sets forth our consolidated revenues for the years ended June 20, 2006 and 2005, respectively.

Total Revenues (000’s)

 

     June 30,    Change  
     2006    2005    $    %  

Year ended

   $ 879,402    $ 749,847    $ 129,555    17.3 %

Our growth in total revenues of 17% was driven by 14% growth in our Electronic Commerce business, 21.8% growth in our Investment Services business and 35% growth in our Software business.

Overall growth in Electronic Commerce, including our telephone bill pay business acquired in January 2006, was driven primarily by 25% growth in transactions processed, from almost 905 million in the year ended June 30, 2005, to over 1.1 billion in the year ended June 30, 2006. We also delivered nearly 185 million e-bills during fiscal 2006, a growth rate of 32% over about 140 million e-bills delivered during fiscal 2005. As interest rates rose throughout fiscal 2006, we experienced revenue growth in our interest-sensitive products such as Account Balance Transfer (“ABT”). Finally, we earned modest revenue growth from our October 2005 acquisition

 

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of Aphelion. Revenue growth was negatively impacted by several factors during the year ended June 30, 2006. Our pricing models provide volume-based discounts in order to share scale efficiencies with our customers. Therefore, as a result of significant transaction growth and better utilization of efficiencies of scale, our average revenue per transaction continued to decline with respect to our transaction-based revenue. During fiscal 2006, our TransPoint related contracts with Microsoft and FDC expired, which, on a combined basis, negatively impacted revenue growth by about 3% in the year. Also, our largest bank customer migrated from a processing model that guarantees funds to our standard risk-based processing model, which negatively impacted our interest-based revenue and resulted in the loss of another percentage point of revenue growth in fiscal 2006.

Growth in our Investment Services business was driven primarily by a 20% increase in portfolios managed, from 1.9 million at June 30, 2005, to nearly 2.3 million at June 30, 2006. During the year ended June 30, 2006, we added new portfolios to our CheckFree APL system at a lower price point, driven by the increased volume coming from lower priced broker dealers, and by conscious price reductions, where we trade off near-term revenue growth against long-term strategic advantage. Additionally, our September 2005 acquisition of IDS improved fiscal 2006 revenue growth within Investment Services by about 5%.

Growth in our Software business was due primarily to a full year of Accurate operations in fiscal 2006 as compared to less than three months of Accurate operations in fiscal 2005. As a result of the effective integration of Accurate, we achieved solid growth in our ORM line of business. We believe this to have been the combined result of improved execution within the Software Division and improvement in the U.S. economy during fiscal 2006.

Across all segments of our business, for the year ended June 30, 2006, Bank of America generated total revenue of $173.7 million, which exceeded 19% of our consolidated revenues. Bank of America was the only customer that exceeded 10% of our consolidated revenue.

The following tables set forth comparative revenues, by type, for the years ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively.

Processing and Servicing Revenue (000’s)

 

     June 30,    Change  
     2006    2005    $    %  

Year ended

   $ 754,076    $ 660,541    $ 93,535    14.2 %

While stable growth in portfolios managed in our Investment Services business contributed positively, the increase in processing and servicing revenue was attributed primarily to the aforementioned transaction growth in our Electronic Commerce business. Annual growth in transactions was favorably influenced by our phone-based bill payment offering, resulting from the acquisition of PhoneCharge in January 2006. Our traditional electronic bill payment products provided the remainder of growth within Electronic Commerce. During fiscal 2006, we delivered nearly 185 million e-bills, representing 32% growth over the 140 million e-bills delivered during fiscal 2005, with an average price of $0.16 per e-bill in each year. Additionally, with interest rates rising over the fiscal year ended June 30, 2006, we experienced revenue growth from our interest-sensitive products. Annual volume-based growth in processing and servicing revenue was somewhat offset by tier-based volume pricing discounts within both our Electronic Commerce and Investment Services businesses. Additionally, growth was negatively impacted by the aforementioned expiration of our processing contracts with Microsoft in December 2005 and FDC in August 2005, and the impact on interest-based revenue resulting from our largest bank customer migrating to a risk-based processing model during the quarter ended March 31, 2006.

We experienced a greater than expected dip in transactions in April 2006 combined with transaction growth for the rest of the quarter that was no as significant as previous years, and a slowdown in consumer activity at our largest bank customer. This phenomenon was not solely bank-based, as transaction growth slowed in all payment channels — on-line, biller direct, walk-in and phone-based transactions. We were not fully certain as to all of the reasons for this lower than anticipated transaction growth and we entered fiscal 2007 focusing our analysis toward consumer and payment activity. See “Executive Summary” above in this Management’s Discussion and Analysis for a discussion of our analysis of transaction growth following the end of fiscal 2006.

 

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License Fee Revenue (000’s)

 

     June 30,    Change  
     2006    2005    $    %  

Year ended

   $ 35,196    $ 28,458    $ 6,738    23.7 %

Our acquisition of Accurate in April 2005 contributed significantly to our license revenue growth in fiscal 2006 as integration efforts with our core products resulted in a significant increase in sales of our ORM product line. Sales of our integrated ORM product line were improving both domestically and internationally, and we were guardedly optimistic about our license sale growth opportunities as we entered fiscal 2007.

Maintenance Fee Revenue (000’s)

 

     June 30,    Change  
     2006    2005    $    %  

Year ended

   $ 42,218    $ 31,231    $ 10,987    35.2 %

Our fiscal 2006 acquisition of Accurate provided about half of our year-over-year growth in maintenance revenue. The remainder resulted from annual customer retention rates that continue to exceed 80% and modest price increases across our software product lines.

Professional Fee Revenue (000’s)

 

     June 30,    Change  
     2006    2005    $    %  

Year ended

   $ 47,912    $ 29,617    $ 18,295    61.8 %

On a year-over-year basis, growth in professional fee revenue resulted from increased revenue from large software services engagements across several products, increased biller implementation revenue, and a positive impact from our acquisitions of Accurate in April 2005, IDS in September 2005 and Aphelionin October 2005.

The following set of tables provides line-by-line expense comparisons with their relative percentages of our consolidated revenues for the years ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively.

Cost of Processing, Servicing and Support (000’s)

 

     June 30,  
     2006     2005  
     $    %
Revenue
    $    %
Revenue
 

Year ended

   $ 342,535    39.0 %   $ 296,912    39.6 %

Cost of processing, servicing and support, as a percentage of revenue, improved by about 0.6% on a year-over-year basis. In both Electronic Commerce and Investment Services, we continued to focus investment on additional efficiency and quality improvements within our customer care processes and our information technology infrastructure, and leveraging a significantly fixed cost infrastructure to drive improvement in cost per transaction and cost per portfolio managed. Within Electronic Commerce, while our electronic payment rate hovered around 83% for over a year, our January 2006 acquisition of PhoneCharge added electronic phone-based payment transactions, helping to raise and maintain our electronic payment rate at 84%. Electronic payments carry a significantly lower variable cost per unit than paper-based payments and are far less likely to result in a costly customer care claim. Also, a portion of the PhoneCharge transactions are credit card payments, carrying interchange fees, which place downward pressure on gross margins for that part of the business. As we exited fiscal 2006, we expected near-term pressure on our gross margin as we invested in resources to support our high availability disaster recovery efforts beginning in the quarter ended June 30, 2006.

 

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Research and Development (000’s)

 

     June 30,  
     2006     2005  
     $    %
Revenue
    $    %
Revenue
 

Year ended

   $ 101,854    11.6 %   $ 80,039    10.7 %

Including capitalized development costs of $0.9 million for the year ended June 30, 2006, and $1.7 million for the year ended June 30, 2005, gross expenditures for research and development were $102.8 million, or 11.7% of consolidated revenues, for the year ended June 30, 2006, and $81.7 million, or 10.9% of consolidated revenues, for the year ended June 30, 2005. In addition to increased research and development costs resulting from our acquisitions of Accurate in April 2005, IDS in September 2005, Aphelion in October 2005 and PhoneCharge in January 2006, we continued to invest in product enhancement and productivity improvement initiatives in all of our core businesses. In particular, are write of our operating system within Investment Services was the primary driver of the increase in research and development costs as a percentage of revenue on a year-over-year basis.

Sales and Marketing (000’s)

 

     June 30,  
     2006     2005  
     $    %
Revenue
    $    %
Revenue
 

Year ended

   $ 87,418    9.9 %   $ 69,106    9.2 %

The increase in sales and marketing costs, both in absolute dollars and as a percentage of revenue, was due primarily to our acquisitions of Accurate in April 2005, IDS in September 2005, Aphelion in October 2005 and PhoneCharge in January 2006. These businesses provided non-redundant marketing personnel, sales commissions and program costs and accounted for over 60% of our incremental sales and marketing costs in fiscal 2006. However, we continued to invest in incremental marketing programs and resources designed to further revenue growth in all of our business segments.

General and Administrative (000’s)

 

     June 30,  
     2006     2005  
     $    %
Revenue
    $    %
Revenue
 

Year ended

   $ 61,948    7.0 %   $ 57,486    7.7 %

Although general and administrative costs continued to increase, we experienced improvement in general and administrative costs as a percentage of revenue. While we incurred incremental costs associated with our various acquisitions over the past year, we were able to effectively leverage corporate general and administrative resources through elimination of redundancy. Additionally, during fiscal 2005 we incurred significant Sarbanes-Oxley Act Section 404 compliance costs in preparation for our first internal control certification as of June 30, 2005. Once initial documentation and testing standards were established, we experienced a reduction in these compliance costs throughout fiscal 2006.

 

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Depreciation and Amortization (000’s)

 

     June 30,  
     2006     2005  
     $    %
Revenue
    $    %
Revenue
 

Year ended

   $ 99,530    11.3 %   $ 175,719    23.4 %

Depreciation and amortization expenses from operating fixed assets and capitalized software development costs increased modestly from $42.1 million for the year ended June 30, 2005, to $42.6 million for the year ended June 30, 2006. The remainder of the change in depreciation and amortization expense represents a net reduction in acquisition-related amortization.

Despite additional amortization expense from intangible assets acquired from Accurate in April 2005, IDS in September 2005, Aphelion in October 2005 and PhoneCharge in January 2006, acquisition-related amortization expense decreased overall from intangible assets that fully amortized during fiscal 2006. In particular, completion of the amortization of the TransPoint strategic agreements resulted in a decrease in amortization expense of approximately $83.0 million on a year-over-year basis. These strategic agreements, which provided $99.0 million of amortization expense in fiscal 2005, fully amortized by the end of the first quarter of fiscal 2006.

Reorganization Charge (000’s)

 

     June 30,  
     2006    2005  
     $    %
Revenue
   $    %
Revenue
 

Year ended

   —      —      $ 5,585    0.7 %

Late in the quarter ended June 30, 2005, we terminated the employment of approximately 200 associates, re-scoping many positions with the intent to re-hire quickly, and eliminating some others. As part of this action, we moved our electronic billing and payment operations from Waterloo, Ontario, Canada to Norcross, Georgia, and closed the Canadian facility in October 2005. These actions resulted in a charge of $5.6 million.

Equity in Loss of Joint Venture (000’s)

 

     June 30,  
     2006     2005  
     $     %
Revenue
    $     %
Revenue
 

Year ended

   $ (3,100 )   (0.4 )%   $ (2,984 )   (0.4 )%

In April 2004, we announced a joint venture, OneVu Limited (“OneVu”), with Voca Limited (“Voca”) , in the United Kingdom to create an integrated electronic billing and payment network for billers and banks in the United Kingdom. We have a 50% equity interest in OneVu, therefore, we account for our interest in OneVu under the equity method of accounting. We provided 100% of OneVu’s necessary working capital requirements during its formative stage, and therefore, the equity in net loss of OneVu represents 100% of the loss incurred by OneVu through March 31, 2006. In March 2006, we entered into an additional funding arrangement with Voca related to OneVu whereby both joint venture partners contributed approximately $830,000 in exchange for a security interest subordinate to our previous funding. OneVu obtained a line of credit facility from a bank in the amount of approximately $2.7 million. Accordingly, beginning in April 2006, we continued to record the operations of OneVu on the equity basis of accounting recognizing only 50% of the results of operations of OneVu. During the three years ended June 30, 2006, we invested $7.2 million in the joint venture.

 

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Net Interest (000’s)

 

     June 30,  
     2006     2005  
     $     %
Revenue
    $     %
Revenue
 

Year ended

        

Interest income

   $ 13,441       $ 8,809    

Interest expense

     (986 )       (1,094 )  
                    

Net interest

   $ 12,455     1.4 %   $ 7,715     1.1 %
                    

As a result of an increase in average cash and invested assets, combined with rising interest rates during fiscal 2006, our interest income increased from $8.8 million for the year ended June 30, 2005, to $13.4 million for the year ended June 30, 2006.

Our interest expense decreased by $0.1 million as capital lease and other borrowings remained fairly consistent in total over the past fiscal year.

Gain on Investments (000’s)

 

     June 30,
     2006    2005
     $    %
Revenue
   $    %
Revenue

Year ended

   —      —      $ 592    —  

In the quarter ended March 31, 2005, we recorded a $0.6 million gain on the sale of stock. While we do not typically invest in equity securities, we received shares of stock from the demutualization of an insurance vendor. We sold the shares shortly after we received them, and recorded the proceeds as a gain on investments.

Income Tax Expense (000’s)

 

     June 30,  
     2006     2005  
     $    Effective
Rate
    $    Effective
Rate
 

Year ended

   $ 74,455    38.1 %   $ 24,560    34.9 %

Our overall blended statutory rate (federal, state and foreign combined) approached 39% without the benefit of tax planning strategies. Our effective rate of 38.1% and 34.9% for the years ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively, was lower than our blended statutory rate due to tax-free municipal interest income and research and experimentation tax credits during the fiscal year.

Earnings from Discontinued Operations (000’s)

 

     June 30,  
     2006     2005  
     $    %
Revenue
    $    %
Revenue
 

Year ended

   $ 14,310    1.6 %   $ 1,518    0.2 %

In the quarter ended March 31, 2006, we divested the assets of M-Solutions, a component of Investment Services. SFAS 144, “Accounting for the Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lives Assets,” requires that we report the results of operations from the divested business, including the $12.8 million gain on the sale, separately as earnings from discontinued operations for all periods presented. Other than the gain itself, M-Solutions historically provided modest earnings on an annual basis.

 

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Income Tax Expense on Discontinued Operations (000’s)

 

     June 30,  
     2006     2005  
     $    Effective
Rate
    $    Effective
Rate
 

Year ended

   $ 8,064    56.4 %   $ 480    31.6 %

Our earnings from discontinued operations include a $12.8 million gain on the sale of M-Solutions in the year ended June 30, 2006. Our book basis gain on the sale includes the impact of the related write-off of goodwill, which is non-deductible for income tax purposes. The higher tax basis gain on the sale resulted in an effective rate of 56.4% for fiscal 2006. With no impact of non-deductible expenses in fiscal 2005, our effective rate was 31.6%.

Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation and Reform Act of 1995

Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this document include certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, which are intended to be covered by the safe harbors created thereby. Those statements include, but may not be limited to, all statements regarding our and management’s intent, belief and expectations, such as statements concerning our future profitability, our cash flows and our operating and growth strategy. Words such as “believe,” “anticipate,” “expect,” “will,” “may,” “should,” “intend,” “plan,” “estimate,” “predict,” “potential,” “continue,” “likely” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Investors are cautioned that all forward-looking statements contained in this document and in other statements we make involve risks and uncertainties including, without limitation, the factors set forth under the caption “Risk Factors—Risks Related to Our Business” included elsewhere in this document and other factors detailed from time to time in our filings with the SEC. One or more of these factors have affected, and in the future could affect our businesses and financial results in the future and could cause actual results to differ materially from plans and projections. Although we believe that the assumptions underlying the forward-looking statements contained herein are reasonable, any of the assumptions could be inaccurate. Therefore, there can be no assurance that the forward-looking statements included in this document will prove to be accurate. In light of the significant uncertainties inherent in the forward-looking statements included herein, the inclusion of such information should not be regarded as a representation by us or any other person that our objectives and plans will be achieved. All forward-looking statements made in this document are based on information presently available to our management. We assume no obligation to update any forward-looking statements.

 

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CHECKFREE FORM 10-Q EXCERPTS

Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

Overview

CheckFree was founded in 1981 as an electronic payment processing company and has become a leading provider of financial electronic commerce products and services. Our current business was developed through the expansion of our core electronic payments business and the acquisition of companies operating similar or complementary businesses.

We operate our business through three independent but inter-related divisions:

 

   

Electronic Commerce;

 

   

Investment Services; and

 

   

Software.

Our Electronic Commerce Division products enable consumers to:

 

   

review bank accounts,

 

   

receive and pay bills over the Internet, and

 

   

pay billers directly through biller-direct sites, by telephone or through our walk-in retail agent network.

For the quarter ended September 30, 2007, we processed more than 351 million payment transactions and delivered approximately 64 million electronic bills (“e-bills”). For the year ended June 30, 2007, we processed more than 1.3 billion payment transactions and delivered approximately 226 million e-bills. The number of transactions we process and the number of e-bills we deliver each year continue to grow. Our Electronic Commerce Division accounted for approximately 73% of our consolidated revenues in the quarter ended September 30, 2007.

Through our Software Division, we provide software, maintenance, support and consulting services, through four product lines. These product lines are global treasury, reconciliation and exception management, transaction process management, and electronic billing. Our Software Division operates both domestically and internationally, and accounted for approximately 15% of our consolidated revenues in the quarter ended September 30, 2007.

Through our Investment Services Division, we provide a range of portfolio management services to help financial institutions, including broker dealers, money managers and investment advisors. As of September 30, 2007, our clients used the CheckFree APL SM portfolio management system (“CheckFree APL”) to manage nearly 2.8 million portfolios. Our Investment Services Division accounted for approximately 12% of our consolidated revenues in the quarter ended September 30, 2007.

Executive Summary

On August 2, 2007, we entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (“Merger Agreement”) pursuant to which Fiserv, Inc. (“Fiserv”) will acquire all of our outstanding shares of common stock for $48.00 per share in cash. Fiserv is a publicly traded Nasdaq company headquartered in Brookfield, Wisconsin and is a provider of technology solutions. On October 15, 2007, we were notified that the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice granted early termination of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 in connection with Fiserv, Inc.’s pending acquisition of our company. On October 23, 2007, at a special stockholders meeting, our stockholders adopted the Merger Agreement with the affirmative vote of approximately 78.96% of the shares entitled to vote at the stockholders meeting. We expect the acquisition to close by December 31, 2007, subject to the receipt of other required regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions.

Recent acquisitions have had an impact on our results between the quarters ended September 30, 2006 and September 30, 2007:

 

   

Our acquisition of Corillian Corporation (“Corillian”) for $245 million in cash in May 2007;

 

   

Our acquisition of Carreker Corporation (“Carreker”) for $206 million in cash in April 2007; and

 

   

Our acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Upstream Technologies LLC (“Upstream”) for $28 million in cash in May 2007;

Due to growth in all of our business segments, including the positive impact of the acquisitions identified above, our consolidated revenue grew by more than 24% from the quarter ended September 30, 2006, to the quarter ended September 30, 2007.

 

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We earned income from operations of $49.0 million in the quarter ended September 30, 2007, an increase of about 2% over the $48.2 million earned during the same period of the prior year. Excluding the impact of acquisition and integration costs of $5.3 million in the quarter ended September 30, 2007, income from operations would have increased by 12%.

Revenue in our Electronic Commerce Division of $206.8 million in the quarter ended September 30, 2007, represents growth of 21% over the same period in the prior year. The Corillian electronic banking business and the Carreker revenue enhancement (“RevE”) consulting practice combined to provide nearly 14% of our quarter over quarter growth, before the impact of purchase accounting on their related deferred revenues. The remainder of Electronic Commerce revenue growth was driven primarily by 13% growth in total payment transactions processed and 23% growth in the volume of e-bills we delivered.

Successful efforts to improve efficiency and quality have resulted in lower cost per transaction, allowing us to share scale efficiencies with our customers through volume-based pricing discounts. When combined with relatively lower margins within the aforementioned businesses we acquired from Corillian and Carreker, our operating margin within Electronic Commerce has remained fairly steady at nearly 35%.

Revenue in our Software Division of $43.2 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2007, represents growth of nearly 55% over the same period of the prior year due to our acquisition of Carreker. Quarter-over-quarter revenue in our legacy Software businesses remained relatively flat during our seasonally low first quarter of the fiscal year in both periods. Relatively low Carreker operating margins resulted in a decline in our overall operating margin in Software from nearly 23% for the quarter ended September 30, 2006 to nearly 13% for the quarter ended September 30, 2007.

Revenue in our Investment Services Division of $34.7 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2007, represents growth of 17% over the same period last year. We generated 20% quarter-over-quarter growth in portfolios managed to nearly 2.8 million as of September 30, 2007, from more than 2.3 million for the same period in the previous year, despite the expected loss of 0.1 million low priced reporting accounts in the quarter ended March 31, 2007. We continue to invest in the rewrite of our CheckFree APL operating system. We expect this investment to provide us the opportunity to expand our services into the rapidly growing separately managed accounts (“SMA” and “SMAs”) market. In May 2007, we purchased substantially all of the assets of Upstream, which provided nominal incremental revenue and operating income in the quarter ended September 30, 2007. Although we had an unusually large contract in the September 2007 quarter that temporarily raised our operating margin to 29%, with steady underlying portfolio growth, we expect our operating margin in Investment Services to remain around the upper teens to lower twenty percent range until we complete our system rewrite and the related migration of our customer base to the new operating platform.

The following table sets forth as percentages of total revenues, consolidated statements of operations data:

 

     Three Months
Ended
September 30,
 
     2007     2006  

Total revenues

   100.0 %   100.0 %

Expenses:

    

Cost of processing, servicing and support

   41.5     40.6  

Research and development

   11.2     11.7  

Sales and marketing

   9.8     9.3  

General and administrative

   10.8     7.8  

Depreciation and amortization

   9.5     9.5  
            

Total expenses

   82.8     78.9  
            

Income from operations

   17.2     21.1  

Equity in net loss of joint venture

   (0.2 )   (0.2 )

Interest income (expense), net

   (0.2 )   1.4  
            

Income before income taxes

   16.8     22.3  

Income tax expense

   6.3     8.7  
            

Net income

   10.5 %   13.6 %
            

 

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Results of Operations

The following table sets forth our consolidated revenues for the quarters ended September 30, 2007 and 2006, respectively:

Total Revenues (000’s)

 

     September 30,    Change  
     2007    2006    $    %  

Quarter ended

   $ 284,664    $ 228,619    $ 56,045    24.5 %

Our growth in total revenues of 24.5% was driven by 21% growth in our Electronic Commerce business, nearly 55% growth in our Software business and 17% growth in our Investment Services business.

Quarter-over-quarter growth in Electronic Commerce revenue has been driven primarily by the RevE consulting practice from our acquisition of Carreker in April 2007 and the Corillian electronic banking business acquired in May 2007. On a combined basis the acquisitions accounted for approximately 14% of our quarter-over-quarter revenue growth within Electronic Commerce. The remainder of our revenue growth in Electronic Commerce was driven primarily by growth in payment transactions processed and the volume of e-bills we delivered.

Total transactions processed grew by nearly 13%, from 311.7 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2006 to 351.6 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2007, composed of approximately 20% growth in consumer service provider (“CSP”) based transactions and a decline of approximately 9% in non-CSP based transactions. Revenue growth from CSP based payment transaction growth was offset by tier-based volume pricing discounts which resulted in a $0.04 quarter-over-quarter decrease in average revenue per CSP transaction. Growth in relatively high-priced phone-based payments in our non-CSP category was more than offset by a decline in walk-in payments where our customers have been shifting to a consumer fee-based pricing model, which provides us with fewer, but more profitable, transactions and a decline in payments made directly at biller websites. The change in the mix within the non-CSP area resulted in a $0.08 quarter-over-quarter increase in average revenue per non-CSP transaction. We delivered 63.9 million e-bills during the quarter ended September 30, 2007, representing growth of 23% over the 51.8 million e-bills delivered in the same period of the prior year. Although revenue per e-bill had remained relatively consistent at $0.16 over the past few years, during the second half of fiscal 2007, revenue per e-bill increased to $0.17 due to our decision to reduce the delivery of screen scraped bills that generated no revenue.

Growth in Software revenue was due to our acquisition of Carreker in April 2007. The September quarter is our seasonally lowest period within our legacy software businesses, which reported relatively flat quarter-over-quarter revenue.

Quarter-over-quarter revenue growth within Investment Services was primarily due to a 20% increase in portfolios managed, from more than 2.3 million as of September 30, 2006 to nearly 2.8 million as of September 30, 2007. We continue to provide incentives for our customers to sign multi-year contracts and continue to experience a business mix shift to lower priced services, both of which have resulted in a modest reduction to our revenue per average portfolio managed. Our acquisition of Upstream in May 2007 had only nominal impact on our revenue growth.

The following tables set forth comparative revenues, by type, for the quarters ended September 30, 2007 and 2006, respectfully.

Processing and Servicing Revenue (000’s)

 

     September 30,    Change  
     2007    2006    $    %  

Quarter ended

   $ 218,114    $ 195,478    $ 22,636    11.6 %

We earn processing and servicing revenue in both our Electronic Commerce and our Investment Services businesses. Quarter over quarter revenue growth was driven primarily by growth in payment transactions processed and e-bills delivered within Electronic Commerce as well as portfolio growth within Investment Services. Total payment transactions increased by nearly 13%, from 311.7 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2006 to 351.6 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2007, composed of approximately 20% growth in CSP based transactions and a decline of approximately 9% in non-CSP based transactions. Revenue growth from CSP based payment transaction growth was offset by tier-based volume pricing discounts which resulted in a $0.04 quarter over quarter decrease in average revenue per CSP transaction. Growth in relatively high-priced phone-based payments in our non-CSP category was more than offset by a decline in walk-in payments where our customers have been shifting to a consumer fee-based pricing model, which provides us with fewer, but more profitable, transactions and a decline in payments made directly at biller websites. The change in the mix within the non-CSP area resulted in a $0.08 quarter over quarter increase in average revenue

 

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per non-CSP transaction. We delivered 63.9 million e-bills during the quarter ended September 30, 2007, representing growth of 23% over the 51.8 million e-bills delivered in the same period of the prior year. In our Investment Services business, we experienced approximately 20% growth in portfolios managed, from more than 2.3 million as of September 30, 2006, to nearly 2.8 million as of September 30, 2007. Finally, incremental revenue from our acquisitions of Corillian and Upstream in the quarter ended June 30, 2007 provided approximately 2% of our quarter over quarter growth in processing and servicing revenue.

License Fee Revenue (000’s)

 

     September 30,    Change  
     2007    2006    $    %  

Quarter ended

   $ 15,412    $ 9,074    $ 6,338    69.8 %

License revenue has traditionally been derived almost exclusively from product sales within our Software Division. However, with our May 2007 acquisition of Corillian, we have begun to reflect license revenue in our Electronic Commerce Division. Our April 2007 acquisition of Carreker also provided license fee revenue. On a combined basis, approximately two-thirds of our quarter-over-quarter growth in license fee revenue resulted from the Carreker and Corillian acquisitions. The first fiscal quarter is a seasonally slow period in our core software businesses which provided the remaining growth.

Maintenance Fee Revenue (000’s)

 

     September 30,    Change  
     2007    2006    $    %  

Quarter ended

   $ 21,988    $ 11,530    $ 10,458    90.7 %

Maintenance fees, which represent annually renewable product support for our software customers, primarily relate to our Software Division, and tend to grow with incremental license sales from previous periods. Our traditional maintenance base continues to grow as a result of recent license sales, high annual customer retention, and moderate price increases across all of our Software businesses. However, on a combined basis, approximately 85% of our quarter-over-quarter growth in maintenance fee revenue resulted from our acquisitions of Carreker and Corillian in the quarter ended June 30, 2007. We recognize maintenance fees ratably over the term of the related contractual support period. Based on the nature of maintenance fees, we would expect minimal future growth without continued incremental license sales.

Professional Fee Revenue (000’s)

 

     September 30,    Change  
     2007    2006    $    %  

Quarter ended

   $ 29,150    $ 12,537    $ 16,613    132.5 %

Professional fee revenue consists primarily of consulting and implementation fees across all three of our divisions. Our expanded product lines over the past several years, including our acquisitions of Carreker, Corillian and Upstream in the quarter ended June 30, 2007, have provided us additional opportunities to offer services to our customers. On a combined basis, the addition of Carreker, Corillian and Upstream provided quarter-over-quarter growth in professional fee revenue of approximately 139%. An unusually large consulting engagement in our Software Division in the prior year resulted in a quarter-over-quarter decline in our legacy professional service fee revenue. Professional fees are typically project oriented and they tend to fluctuate from period to period.

Cost of Processing, Servicing and Support (000’s)

 

     September 30,  
     2007     2006  
     $    %
Revenue
    $    %
Revenue
 

Quarter ended

   $ 118,237    41.5 %   $ 92,849    40.6 %

On a combined basis, approximately 85% of the dollar growth in cost of processing, servicing and support is due to our acquisitions of Carreker and Corillian in the quarter ended June 30, 2007. Cost of processing, servicing and support, as a percentage of revenue, has increased by nearly 1% on a quarter-over-quarter basis due primarily to the lower gross margins of the consulting services and customer support components of Carreker and Corillian, offsetting cost efficiency gains in our legacy businesses. In both Electronic Commerce and Investment Services, we continue to focus investment on additional efficiency and quality improvement within our customer care processes and our information technology infrastructure, and are leveraging a significantly fixed cost

 

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infrastructure to drive improvement in cost per transaction processed and cost per portfolio managed. Within Electronic Commerce, our electronic payment rate is currently 84%. Electronic payments carry a significantly lower variable cost per unit than paper-based payments and are far less likely to result in a costly customer care claim. With our current mix of businesses within Electronic Commerce, it is difficult to raise the electronic rate above the 84% level as it takes an increasing number of relatively small merchants to sign up for electronic payment receipt to improve the ratio by a single percentage point. Also, a portion of the pay by phone transactions are credit card payments, carrying interchange fees, which place negative pressure on gross margins for that part of our business. Relatively high growth in credit card payments in the future could place downward pressure on the gains we expect from continued Six Sigma-based process improvements within our Electronic Commerce business. Looking forward, we expect some near-term pressure on our gross margin as we invest in resources to support our data center and high-availability disaster recovery efforts. These efforts began in earnest in the quarter ended June 30, 2006, and we expect continued investment in this area well into fiscal 2008.

Research and Development (000’s)

 

     September 30,  
     2007     2006  
     $    %
Revenue
    $    %
Revenue
 

Quarter ended

   $ 31,975    11.2 %   $ 26,738    11.7 %

We continue to invest in product enhancement and productivity improvement initiatives in all of our core businesses, including the rewrite of our operating system within Investment Services, named CheckFree EPL SM (Enhanced Portfolio Lifecycle). Testing of EPL is ongoing, and we are scheduled to begin initial customer migrations in the next few months. Incremental research and development costs from our acquisitions of Carreker, Corillian and Upstream in the quarter ended June 30, 2007, exceeded our quarter-over-quarter decline in research and development, as lower costs in our Software Division resulted from the timing of certain software development projects.

Sales and Marketing (000’s)

 

     September 30,  
     2007     2006  
     $    %
Revenue
    $    %
Revenue
 

Quarter ended

   $ 27,869    9.8 %   $ 21,275    9.3 %

Nearly all of the quarter over quarter increase in sales and marketing expense is the combined result of our acquisitions of Carreker, Corillian and Upstream in the quarter ended June 30, 2007. Sales and marketing costs as a percentage of revenue within both Carreker and Corillian are higher than our legacy businesses, but are consistent with a software business model that supports a direct sales force and incurs variable sales commissions on product sales.

General and Administrative (000’s)

 

     September 30,  
     2007     2006  
     $    %
Revenue
    $    %
Revenue
 

Quarter ended

   $ 30,710    10.8 %   $ 17,749    7.8 %

Our pending merger with Fiserv and our recent acquisitions of Carreker, Corillian and Upstream have resulted in approximately $5.3 million of merger related fees and integration costs in the quarter ended September 30, 2007. Additionally, although acquisition related synergy actions were announced in the quarter ended June 30, 2007, certain of the associates within general and administrative areas will remain well into the current fiscal year to ensure an effective migration of internal systems. Absent these merger related costs and carryover costs, we have largely been able to leverage our general and administrative costs.

 

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Depreciation and Amortization (000’s)

 

     September 30,  
     2007     2006  
     $    %
Revenue
    $    %
Revenue
 

Quarter ended

   $ 26,868    9.4 %   $ 21,805    9.5 %

Depreciation and amortization expense resulting from the purchase of operating fixed assets and capitalized software development costs increased to $13.1 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2007, from $10.8 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2006, due primarily to fixed asset additions resulting from the acquisitions of Carreker, Corillian and Upstream in the quarter ended June 30, 2007. The remainder of our depreciation and amortization expense represents purchase accounting amortization, which has also increased due to the aforementioned acquisitions. Over the past six quarters we have capitalized approximately $47.9 million in property, plant and equipment related to construction-in-progress for the addition of a data center facility. We expect a fairly substantial increase in depreciation expense as the data center becomes operational, which is expected to happen during the quarter ending December 31, 2007.

Equity in Net Loss of Joint Venture (000’s)

 

     September 30,  
     2007     2006  
     $     %
Revenue
    $     %
Revenue
 

Quarter ended

   $ (423 )   -0.2 %   $ (458 )   -0.2 %

In April 2004, we announced a joint venture, OneVu Limited (“OneVu”), with Voca Limited (“Voca”), to create an integrated electronic billing and payment network for billers and banks in the United Kingdom. We have an equity interest of approximately 46.6% in OneVu and, therefore, we account for our interest in OneVu under the equity method of accounting. We provided 100% of OneVu’s necessary working capital requirements during its formative stage and, therefore, the equity in net loss of OneVu represented 100% of losses incurred by OneVu through March 31, 2006. In March 2006, we entered into an additional funding arrangement with Voca related to OneVu whereby both joint venture partners contributed approximately $830,000 in exchange for a security interest in OneVu subordinate to our previous funding. OneVu obtained a line of credit facility from a bank in the amount of approximately $2.7 million and we have guaranteed the credit facility. Accordingly, beginning in April 2006, we continued to record the operations of OneVu on the equity basis of accounting now recognizing 46.6% of the results of operations of OneVu. Because of our debt guarantee, our portion of the operating losses has caused the carrying value of our investment in the joint venture to fall below zero, becoming a liability in the quarter ended September 30, 2006. The liability will continue to increase as long as the joint venture incurs losses and will be reduced by our share of any profits.

Net Interest Income (Expense) (000’s)

 

     September 30,  
     2007     2006  
     $     %
Revenue
    $     %
Revenue
 

Quarter ended:

        

Interest income

   $ 2,121       $ 3,581    

Interest expense

     (2,795 )       (287 )  

Net interest income (expense)

   $ (674 )   -0.2 %   $ 3,294     1.4 %

Cash flow provided by operating activities during the year ended June 30, 2007 was used to fund a $150 million share repurchase program and a significant portion of our acquisitions of Carreker, Corillian and Upstream. The related decline in quarter-over-quarter average invested assets resulted in lower interest income. The remainder of our acquisition funding was provided through draws against our revolving credit facility in the quarter ended June 30, 2007. As of September 30, 2007, the outstanding balance on the revolving credit facility was approximately $122 million, down from $204 million as of June 30, 2007. The increase in interest expense is due primarily to the debt service on the revolving credit facility. Our data center financing agreement accumulated a balance of $47.9 million as of September 30, 2007; however, construction period interest expense related to the data center credit facility has been capitalized to construction-in-progress and interest expense from this credit facility will not impact our income statement until the data center is placed in service, which is expected to happen during the quarter ending December 31, 2007.

 

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Income Tax Expense (000’s)

 

     September 30,  
     2007     2006  
     $    Effective
Rate
    $    Effective
Rate
 

Quarter ended

   $ 18,061    37.7 %   $ 19,822    38.8 %

Our overall blended statutory rate (federal, state and foreign combined) approached 38.5%. Our effective rate of 37.7% and 38.8% for the quarters ended September 30, 2007 and 2006, respectively, differs from our blended statutory rate due to tax free municipal interest income earned on our investment portfolio, earned research and development tax credits and differing income tax rates in the various tax jurisdictions in which we operate, net of certain valuation allowances against net operating losses in certain tax jurisdictions that we do not anticipate using in the future.

We adopted the provisions of FIN 48 effective July 1, 2007; however, the adoption of FIN 48 had no material impact on our quarterly operating results or effective tax rate for the three months ended September 30, 2007.

Safe Harbor Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995

Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this document include certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, which are intended to be covered by the safe harbors created thereby. Those statements include, but may not be limited to, all statements regarding our and management’s intent, belief and expectations, such as statements concerning our future profitability and our operating and growth strategy. Words such as “believe,” “anticipate,” “expect,” “will,” “may,” “should,” “intend,” “plan,” “estimate,” “predict,” “potential,” “continue,” “likely” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Investors are cautioned that all forward-looking statements contained in this document and in other statements we make involve risks and uncertainties including, without limitation, the factors set forth under the caption “Risk Factors” included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 2007, and other factors detailed from time to time in our filings with the SEC. One or more of these factors have affected, and in the future could affect our businesses and financial results in the future and could cause actual results to differ materially from plans and projections. Although we believe that the assumptions underlying the forward-looking statements contained herein are reasonable, any of the assumptions could be inaccurate. Therefore, there can be no assurance that the forward-looking statements included in this document will prove to be accurate. In light of the significant uncertainties inherent in the forward-looking statements included herein, the inclusion of such information should not be regarded as a representation by us or any other person that our objectives and plans will be achieved. All forward-looking statements made in this document are based on information presently available to our management. We assume no obligation to update any forward-looking statements.

 

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