Gary Norcross
Analyst · Goldman Sachs
Thank you, Frank, and thanks to everyone on the call. I will begin today's review with an overview of the global sales climate, followed by the operating highlights. As Frank discussed, we continue to see evidence of an improved spending environment, which is driving strong growth in our sales pipeline across the globe. Industry consolidation, regulatory changes and the ongoing challenges of competition and processing scale that our clients are facing, continue to drive opportunity for FIS. The combination of our product set, which we believe is the broadest in the industry, and our global distribution team, have allowed us to participate in the improving spend environment. As discussed last quarter, we have seen clients continue to favor hosted solutions over in-house implementation, which have resulted in a mix shift from license revenue to processing and professional services. These trends provide longer-term stable revenue streams and also eliminate some of the volatility in both our revenue and margins due to onetime license fees. Next, I am pleased to highlight some of our recent sales wins. Expansion of our core client base is an integral part of our growth strategy. These important relationships not only generate high reoccurring revenue and strong incremental margins, they also account for significant cross sales every year. We continue to gain market share in the community and mid-tier market, where the integration of our core platforms with delivery channels and Payment Solutions is a strong competitive differentiator for FIS. 2010 was a record year for core competitive wins, and we continue to win new business in 2011. Second quarter signings included United Bank, with approximately $9 billion in assets, and a large West Coast bank with more than $6 billion in assets. These new clients will also utilize a wide range of channel and Payment Solutions, including FIS eBanking, bill payment and debit solutions. The traction we are gaining with the NYCE Network and our bill Payment Solutions are great examples of our achievement in leveraging existing client relationships to drive higher pull-through revenue. I am very pleased to announce that we recently extended and expanded our existing partnership with Intuit to provide a highly competitive online banking and bill payment solution, which leverages Intuit's strength and user experience with FIS expertise in payment processing. As part of the enhanced relationship, more than 500 financial institutions will migrate to the FIS bill payment platform from a competing provider within the next 18 to 24 months. This will increase the total number of institutions utilizing our bill payment solution to more than 4,000. We are very excited to partner with an industry leader like Intuit as we continue to expand our presence within this market. We also continue to make good progress expanding our core and payment relationships in the large FI market, including a new managed services agreement with First Niagara Bank, a $30 billion multistate institution. We are also very pleased to announce that Fifth Third Bank recently selected FIS as their new bill payment provider, bringing the total number of top 30 wins to 5 in the last year. The success that we are having with this product among large financial institutions and direct banks illustrates the strength and quality of our offering. As you can see, the team continues to do an outstanding job closing new deals and driving cross sales across the enterprise. We are also seeing great results in our international business, including increasing demand for our debit and prepaid solutions. As we highlighted at the Investor Day last December, FIS is the only Fintech provider with combined core and payment capabilities outside of North America. The global migration towards electronic payments and prepaid cards is driving significant opportunities to leverage our global product set. And we are seeing strong demand for prepay, ATM switching and debit solutions. We added several new names to our growing list of prepaid clients during the second quarter, including the post office in the U.K., Pango [ph] In Germany, and Woolworths, which is Australia's largest retailer. And we look forward to sharing additional successes in the future. Last quarter, we discussed our growing presence in emerging markets, including Asia and Brazil. We continue to see strong demand for our debit solutions in Asia, which we completed new processing agreements with one of the top 3 banks in India and a large EFT processor in Singapore during the second quarter. In Brazil, Banco Bradesco's pilot of the new ELO-branded credit card is going very well, with more than 80,000 cards being issued since April. We also began processing ELO-branded prepaid cards in June. We continue to feel very good about the Brazilian market and the strong opportunities we are seeing in our global business overall. We have had a number of successes in Europe, including a newly expanded processing relationship with Deutsche Apotheker, as well as a multiyear extension of our core and securities processing solutions with ING-DiBa, both in Germany. This follows the new application management arrangement with ING Direct in France that we announced last September. As Frank mentioned, Capco is seeing substantial demand for business transformation services in Europe, and has experienced very strong growth in their European practice in the first 6 months as an FIS company. We continue to engage our large clients in differentiated opportunities, where we can leverage Capco's solution expertise and the vast delivery capabilities that FIS brings to the table. These joint transformative opportunities are a major reason that we acquired Capco. Turning to our business operations. First, as a follow-up to last quarter's call, I am pleased to report that we have completed our assessment of the unauthorized activities on our Sunrise prepaid platform. The additional measures that we have taken to strengthen security are working, and we have experienced no additional financial impact. Our team did a great job containing the activity, and we remain diligent in our efforts to mitigate future risk. Next, I'll provide a brief update on the Durbin Amendment. As you're aware, the final rules were published on June 29. We are working very closely with existing and prospective clients and expect the changes to have a positive impact on our business overall. As an indication, more than 1,000 clients have participated in recent webinars that we have hosted on this topic. In addition, as you may have seen in yesterday's press release, we have signed a record number of new NYCE participants in the first half of 2011. We believe that the exclusivity provision, which requires all issuers to have at least 2 unaffiliated networks on their cards, is a favorable outcome for the NYCE network. We do not believe that the revised new limits on debit interchange will materially impact the number of debit cards being issued by large financial institutions. Furthermore, as you are also aware, the Durbin Amendment does not impact our clients with less than $10 billion in assets. Finally, I'd like to leave you with the following thoughts before turning the call over to Mike. We are optimistic that the outlook for the industry will continue to improve and that we will continue to move deals through the pipeline. We believe that the Durbin Amendment will have a favorable outcome on our business overall, and we are encouraged with the response we have received from our clients. We continue to anticipate increased consolidation in the industry, which creates both challenges and opportunities. Last, we feel very good about our client relationships, our winning track record and our global leadership position. Now I will turn it over to Mike for the financial report.