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Tompkins Financial Corporation Selects Postilion Suite of Solutions to Offer Integrated Self-Service Banking

Posted on: Wednesday, 18 March 2009, 07:30 CDT

Postilion streamlines administrative functions, delivers operational flexibility, and improves customer experience with integrated Internet banking, voice banking, and mobile solutions

NORCROSS, Ga., March 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Postilion, a leading global provider of integrated solutions for self-service banking and payments and a division of S1 Corporation (Nasdaq: SONE), today announced that Tompkins Financial Corporation (NYSE Amex: TMP), a New York-based, $2.7 billion asset holding company, has licensed Postilion's suite of integrated self-service banking solutions.

A Postilion customer for ten years, Tompkins Financial Corporation is currently deploying Postilion's heritage IBS and voice banking solutions to its three community banks, Tompkins Trust Company, The Bank of Castile, and Mahopac National Bank. All three community banks will leverage Postilion's broad range of self-service banking solutions to deliver an integrated, consistent, bank-branded customer experience across its self-service channels. Utilizing Postilion's single platform, the financial institutions' installation will begin in Spring 2009, with plans to take the following solutions live throughout the year:

• Postilion Retail Internet Banking -- a comprehensive Internet banking service for retail customers, including account balance inquiries, transfers, bill payments, ATM personalization, and user alerts.
• Postilion Business Internet Banking -- a full-featured Internet banking service for business customers, including a sophisticated set of account, transfer, payment, payroll, wires, and entitlements services, secure protection against fraudulent activities, and targeted reporting.
• Postilion Voice Banking -- the full range of voice banking functionality, such as balance inquiry, online and offline transfers, transaction history, and custom call flows.
• Postilion Mobile -- versatile mobile channel delivery via mobile browser or text messaging with complete mobile banking and transactional services, including diverse payments and purchasing, comprehensive monitoring and reporting, and mobile-enabled card programs.
• Postilion Personal Financial Management powered by Yodlee -- comprehensive online platform, integrated with Postilion Retail Internet Banking, that gives consumers an automated, consolidated view of all of their financial accounts.

"Postilion's focus on converging all self-service delivery channels onto a single platform to deliver a consistent experience across all mediums supports both our vision and future plans for innovating how we service our communities," said Rick Page, Senior Vice President and CIO, Tompkins Financial Corporation. "We view our relationship with Postilion as a true partnership, as they continue to demonstrate that they are looking to help us grow our business by pushing the technology envelope and adding value for our community bank customers."

"There is no question that this is a tough year for the global economy, but many community and regional financial institutions like Tompkins Financial Corporation are well positioned to compete in this market and seize the opportunity to provide more innovative and sustainable solutions," said Pierre Naude, President, Postilion Banking. "We are excited about the opportunity to help Tompkins Financial Corporation be among the leading edge community banks delivering integrated self-service solutions to provide a truly pervasive financial services experience for its customers."

About Tompkins Financial Corporation

Tompkins Financial Corporation operates 45 banking offices in the New York State markets served by the Company's subsidiary banks - Tompkins Trust Company, The Bank of Castile, and Mahopac National Bank. Through its community banking subsidiaries, the Company provides traditional banking services, and offers a full range of money management services through Tompkins Investment Services (a division of Tompkins Trust Company). The Company offers insurance services through its Tompkins Insurance Agencies, Inc. subsidiary, an independent agency serving individuals and business clients throughout New York State. The Company offers fee-based financial planning and wealth management services through its AM&M Financial Services, Inc. subsidiary. AM&M Financial Services, Inc. is also the parent Company to Ensemble Financial Services, Inc., an independent broker dealer and leading outsourcing company for financial planners and investment advisors. Each Tompkins subsidiary operates with a community focus, meeting the unique needs of the communities served.

About Postilion

Postilion, a division of S1 Corporation (Nasdaq: SONE), is a leading provider of integrated solutions for self-service banking and payment processing. Our offices, on five continents, serve over 1,500 customers in more than 50 countries. Postilion solutions drive self-service financial transactions and payments, including advanced transactions such as prepay, through Internet access points, ATMs, POS terminals, and phones.

More than 100,000 ATMs and 500,000 POS terminals worldwide run on Postilion solutions. In the United States, over 1,250 credit unions and community financial institutions use Postilion solutions. Built on open systems, Postilion solutions provide consolidated management information, card management, 3DES and EMV enablement, and loyalty management. At the forefront of compliance with new regulations and security enhancements, such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and Visa's Payment Application Best Practices (PABP), Postilion can help customers achieve compliance with the latest data security standards developed by the payment card industry. More information is available at www.postilion.com.

About S1 Corporation

S1 Corporation (Nasdaq: SONE) delivers customer interaction software for financial and payment services and offers unique solution sets for financial institutions, retailers, and processors under three brand names: Postilion, S1 Enterprise and FSB Solutions. Additional information about S1 solutions is available at www.s1.com, www.postilion.com, www.S1enterprise.com, and www.fsb-solutions.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. These statements include statements with respect to our financial condition, results of operations and business. The words "believes," "expects," "may," "will," "should," "projects," "contemplates," "anticipates," "forecasts," "intends" or similar terminology identify forward-looking statements. These statements are based on our beliefs as well as assumptions made using information currently available to us. Because these statements reflect our current views concerning future events, they involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Therefore, actual results may differ significantly from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements. The risk factors included in our reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (and available on our web site at www.s1.com or the SEC's web site at www.sec.gov) provide examples of risks, uncertainties and events that may cause our actual results to differ materially from the expectations we describe in our forward-looking statements. Except as provided by law, we undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statement.

SOURCE S1 Corporation

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