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ARGO Data Resource Corporation Announces Lender Integration Support For Bankers Integration Group, Inc.

DALLAS, April 11 -- ARGO Data Resource Corporation (ARGO), a market leader that provides automated delivery and lending systems for financial services companies, announced today that it will enter into a contractual relationship with Bankers Integration Group, Inc. ("BIG"), to supply a scalable, open standards-based integration platform between BIG's software solution and lender's origination systems.

ARGO will leverage over 20 years of experience integrating enterprise applications, legacy systems, and third-party provider systems to deliver seamless front-end business processes to the financial services market. ARGO's integration platform for BIG will give lenders direct transaction access between automobile dealers and financial institutions, enabling them to process and decision applications in real-time and finalize loans in a matter of seconds.

BIG is an application service provider whose patent pending BIGFNI(TM) software solution provides a web-based risk analysis engine that is unique to the automobile finance industry. The BIGFNI solution does more than simply automate the finance application process between lenders and automobile dealers -- it provides a powerful tool for prescreening loan applications and matching them to lender profiles.

"Based on our review of the marketplace, we believe that the BIGFNI system offers an innovative solution for lenders involved in automobile financing, increasing efficiency in their distribution systems and providing them with significant savings in the cost of loan acquisitions," said David McCune, Corporate Vice President of ARGO. "The improved efficiencies and reduced costs offered by the BIGFNI system fits squarely within the goals of our lending clients. In addition, ARGO's current and future clients will receive the benefit of decreased time-to-market from developed APIs within our system to BIGFNI."

"We are particularly pleased to be working with a company whose technology solutions are synonymous with trust and reliability in the financial services industry," said Ted Cunningham, Vice Chairman of Bankers Integration Group and former Executive Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing for the Chrysler Group. "By integrating our front-end Web-based system with ARGO's middle-tier architecture, lenders will be able to better serve dealers while greatly reducing their costs to process applications."

About ARGO Data Resource Corporation:

ARGO Data Resource Corporation, based in Dallas, Texas, a market leader among the top financial institutions in the U.S., automates retail delivery and lending systems for financial services companies. ARGO has been providing solutions to the financial services industry since 1980 and excels at implementing cost-effective, best-of-breed solutions. ARGO's strong revenue growth and twenty-three years of experience demonstrate stability and longevity that is unsurpassed in the software industry.

About Bankers Integration Group, Inc.

Bankers Integration Group, Inc., with its headquarters in Laguna Niguel, California, is an application service provider to the finance and insurance industries. Its patent pending web-based risk analysis engine, BIGFNI(TM), allows automobile dealers and lenders to decision financing in real time with funding and final delivery through ePackaging. Partnering with leading financial institutions, the BIGFNI software engine operates over the Internet through a standard browser, interpreting credit data, rendering a credit decision, and matching buyers with loan programs based on credit history drawn from the three major credit bureaus, vehicle type, and a lender's underwriting criteria. The system is designed to host a variety of prime and non-prime Lenders. For more information about Bankers Integration Group, visit the company's Web site at www.bigfni.com or contact Michael R. Dunn, Chairman and CEO, at 1-800-633-9171 ext. 126.