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Toyota Financial Services Chooses BANKLINK as Its Strategic Cash Management Partner; BANKLINK products will help Toyota Financial Services launch its new bank

NEW YORK--April 20, 2004--BANKLINK, a unit of Fiserv, Inc. and a leading provider of Web-based treasury management products and services, announced today that Torrance, CA-based Toyota Financial Services has selected BANKLINK as its Web-based cash management solutions provider.

Toyota Financial Services is launching Toyota Financial Savings Bank to offer financial services to its dealers and eventually to Toyota and Lexus customers. Initially, the bank will use BANKLINK as a source of money movement between Toyota Financial Savings Bank and U.S. Toyota and Lexus dealers. The bank tentatively plans to open during the summer of 2004.

"We look for the same high level of service quality in our business partners that we expect of ourselves," said John Stillo, Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Toyota Motor Credit Corporation. "We were attracted to Fiserv and BANKLINK because of their experience and reputation, and everything we've seen has reinforced our decision to use their services for the launch of our new bank."

"BANKLINK is pleased to provide Toyota Financial Services with Web solutions that will help launch their new bank and generate additional revenue opportunities for them," said Paul A. Frank, BANKLINK's President. "The functionality of BANKLINK's products and its support are becoming increasingly recognized throughout the marketplace and by industry analysts such as Celent Communications, which recently rated BANKLINK #1 for institutions with less than $5 billion in assets."

BANKLINK initially will provide Toyota with iLINK(TM), BANKLINK's comprehensive suite of treasury management services targeted at middle-market companies and large corporations, and exchangeLINK(SM), its suite of services for the exchange and consolidation of account information among multiple banks in multiple countries.

More information on BANKLINK

BANKLINK, on the Web at www.BANKLINK.com, leads with customer-focused treasury management solutions through experience and vision. Established in 1977 as a full-service electronic banking company, today BANKLINK provides product and service solutions to over 130 financial institutions worldwide to meet the needs of 20,000 treasury management customers. The BANKLINK portfolio of information reporting and transaction initiation services features iLINK(TM), bizLINK(TM), the exchangeLINK(SM) suite of account aggregation and sweep services, BANKLINK SERIES 2000(TM) and BANKLINK MoneyWorks(TM). BANKLINK is located in New York, New York and is a unit of Fiserv.

Fiserv, Inc. provides industry leading information management systems and services to the financial industry, including transaction processing, outsourcing, business process outsourcing and software and systems solutions. The company serves more than 15,000 clients worldwide, including banks, broker-dealers, credit unions, financial planners/investment advisers, insurance companies and agents, self-funded employers, lenders and savings institutions. Headquartered in Brookfield, Wisconsin, Fiserv reported $2.7 billion in processing and services revenues for 2003. Fiserv can be found on the Internet at www.fiserv.com.

More information on Toyota Financial Services

Since opening its doors in 1983, Toyota Financial Services (TFS) has grown from a small company with eight associates to an organization with more than 2,800 associates nationwide and managed assets totaling $40 billion. TFS is part of the worldwide financial services operations for Toyota Financial Services Corporation (TFSC), which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) in Japan. TFS has three regional offices, three Customer Service Centers and 30 Dealer Sales and Service Offices throughout the United States. Toyota Financial Services is a service mark of Toyota Motor Credit Corporation and Toyota Motor Insurance, Inc.