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Ruesch International and The BANCServices Group, Inc. announce alliance to deliver Global Payment Solutions to Financial Institutions

Washington, DC—November 14, 2006—Ruesch International, Inc., a leading provider of global payment solutions and services headquartered in Washington, DC is pleased to announce that it has entered into a strategic alliance with The BANCServices Group, Inc. (“BANCServices”), a provider of value-added solutions to help banks and credit unions realize their strategic goals.

This alliance will enable BANCServices’ financial institution partners access to Ruesch International’s suite of payment and foreign exchange solutions including check conversion services, payment systems consolidation, domestic and international ACH services and domestic and international wire transfer and foreign exchange services.

“Our new relationship brings together the industry expertise of BANCServices with the strong technologies and payments infrastructure of Ruesch International, providing a new suite of valued services to BANCServices’ financial institutions,” said John M. Perry, Executive Vice President, Global Sales and Marketing of Ruesch International. “Together with BANCServices, we are strengthening financial institutions by providing them with valuable tools to build and extend relationships with their most valuable customers. Ruesch International offers several flexible payment platforms that banks and other institutions can utilize to facilitate domestic and international payments for their business clients.”

“BANCServices provides a variety of strategic solutions for our financial institution partners,” said Jim Campbell, BANCServices President & CEO. “As more businesses are looking for ways to lower costs and increase efficiencies regarding payment solutions, our alliance with Ruesch International allows us to provide our financial institution clients and their business customers with value-added solutions such as check to ACH conversion and single application payment solutions. The web-based foreign exchange outsourcing solution is a valuable tool as more businesses are entering global markets.”

About Ruesch International
Ruesch International is a leading global financial institution specializing in international business-to-business payment products and solutions. The corporation has full-service corporate foreign exchange operations in Australia, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, the United States, and the United Kingdom that serves more than 18,000 corporate clients. Each year, Ruesch's international payment consultants develop risk management strategies and global payment solutions that help clients manage nearly $30 billion in payment transactions worldwide. Ruesch International is principally owned by the private equity firm of Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe.

About The BANCServices Group, Inc.
The BANCServices Group, Inc. provides products, services and programs designed to increase fee income, expand market share, enhance customer service, improve profitability and reduce risk. BANCServices’ Courtesy Pay® is a highly successful overdraft program; Core Xcelerator® attracts new checking account holders with the right offer at the right time; BANConnections® is a fully automated, web-based CRM solution; and, Equifax Decision Power ExpressSM provides a single entry decisioning platform to increase the number of account applicants accepted, minimize losses and increase cross-sales. For more information, visit www.BANCServicescorp.com.

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