Equifax Closes Russia Transaction

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About Equifax Inc. (www.equifax.com)

Equifax empowers businesses and consumers with information they can trust. A global leader in information solutions, we leverage one of the largest sources of consumer and commercial data, along with advanced analytics and proprietary technology, to create customized insights that enrich both the performance of businesses and the lives of consumers.

Customers have trusted Equifax for over 100 years to deliver innovative solutions with the highest integrity and reliability. Businesses - large and small - rely on us for consumer and business credit intelligence, portfolio management, fraud detection, decisioning technology, marketing tools, and much more. We empower individual consumers to manage their personal credit information, protect their identity, and maximize their financial well-being.

Headquartered inAtlanta, Georgia, Equifax Inc. employs approximately 7,000 people in 14 countries throughoutNorth America,Latin America and Europe. Equifax is a member of Standard & Poor's (S&P) 500(R) Index. Our common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol EFX.

About Global Payments Inc. (NYSE: GPN)

Global Payments Inc. is a leading provider of electronic transaction processing services for consumers, merchants, Independent Sales Organizations (ISOs), financial institutions, government agencies and multi-national corporations located throughoutthe United States,Canada,Latin America, Europe and theAsia-Pacific region. Global Payments offers a comprehensive line of processing solutions for credit and debit cards, business-to-business purchasing cards, gift cards, electronic check conversion and check guarantee, verification and recovery including electronic check services, as well as terminal management. The company also provides consumer money transfer services from the U.S. andEurope to destinations inLatin America,Morocco, andthe Philippines. For more information about the company and its services, visit www.globalpaymentsinc.com.

About Home Credit Group (www.homecredit.net; www.homecredit.ru)

The companies of Home Credit Group are active on the consumer financing markets in the Central andEastern Europe, Middle Asia and Far East. In 2007 they jointly provided loans in the total amount of € 3.3 billion. Home Credit Group assumes leading positions on the markets in theCzech Republic (Home Credit, since 1997), in the Slovak Republic (Home Credit Slovakia, since 1999), in theRussian Federation (Home Credit & Finance Bank, since 2002), in Kazakhstan (Home Credit Kazakhstan, since December 2005). In 2006 the company entered the markets inBelarus (OAO Home Credit Bank) and inUkraine (CJSC Home Credit Bank, Home Credit Finance), since December 2007 it has been active inChina (Home Credit Asia).

Home Credit Group is a part of the international financial PPF Group, which deals with consumer financing and provides complex services in the area of management and administration of assets. After 17 years of its existence PPF Group has become one of the leading international financial investors and by the end of 2007 it managed assets in the amount exceeding euro 10.1 billion.

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