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December 6, 2006
Metavante Lending Solutions Adds Brian Blair to Lead Sales for Mortgage Business
MILWAUKEE, Dec. 6, 2006 – Metavante Corporation, the banking and payments technology subsidiary of Marshall & Ilsley Corporation (NYSE: MI), today announced today that Brian Blair has been appointed Senior Vice President of Sales for its Lending Solutions business unit.
Blair joins Metavante from IntraLinks where he spent the last two years as Senior Vice President of Sales for debt capital markets and achieved substantial growth in new business sales.
Prior to IntraLinks‚ Blair held several management positions as Managing Director of both AFSCommerce and Bank Performance Services for Automated Financial Systems (AFS).
“Brian’s appointment will strengthen our senior management team and enable us to deliver additional value to our clients with his extensive background in banking and lending,” said Cy Brinn‚ who heads Metavante Lending Solutions as president of GHR Systems‚ a Metavante company.
“Since he has consulted with many financial institutions during the last 25 years‚ he will be able to help clients understand how to improve the effectiveness and profitability of their lending operations. Brian is a welcome addition to our senior management team‚” added Brinn.
“This is a tremendous opportunity to be a part of a new focus at Metavante – the mortgage technology sector‚” said Brian Blair. “Metavante‚ already a dominant force in the banking industry‚ offers advanced, market–proven solutions with a large client list‚ which positions the Lending Solutions suite of products well in a very competitive industry.”
Metavante Lending Solutions provides automation technology and services to residential mortgage‚ consumer‚ small business and vendor finance marketplaces. Metavante Lending Solutions provides technology to support the lending lifecycle‚ origination‚ servicing through collections and can also be supported through business process outsourcing (BPO) services. Metavante offers point-of-sale and loan origination technology to lenders seeking to reduce the cost and cycle time associated with originating, processing and closing each mortgage or consumer loan. Metavante also provides financing solutions for the retail industry through its Retail Financing Solutions (RFS) arm. These lending solutions are used by large, mid-sized and emerging lenders to better market‚ sell and close loans through all distribution channels‚ including wholesale‚ retail‚ consumer direct and correspondent. Six of the top 20 U.S. mortgage lenders use GHR Systems‚ Inc.‚ a Metavante Lending Solutions Company.
About Metavante
Metavante Corporation delivers banking and payments technologies to financial services firms and businesses worldwide. Metavante products and services drive account processing for deposit‚ loan and trust systems‚ image-based and conventional check processing‚ electronic funds transfer‚ consumer healthcare payments‚ and electronic presentment and payment. Headquartered in Milwaukee‚ Metavante (www.metavante.com) is wholly owned by Marshall & Ilsley Corporation (NYSE: MI).
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