SunGard Named "Best Banking Technology Provider" by Banker Middle East

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Wissam Khoury (centre), managing director, Middle East at SunGard, receives the award at the Gala dinner.

Dubai (Vocus) June 16, 2009

SunGard has been named as "Best Banking Technology Provider" in the Banker Middle East Industry Awards 2009.

The annual Banker Middle East awards recognise excellence, achievement and innovation across the Middle East finance industry. The publication's 7,000 plus readers are asked to vote for the institutions they believe have delivered exceptional performance over the past year. Nominees must demonstrate the highest levels of quality, consistency and innovation across the solutions and services they provide. Winners in each category are chosen by a panel of judges. SunGard was chosen from a shortlist of nine nominees.

Wissam Khoury, managing director, Middle East for SunGard's financial systems business, commented: "SunGard currently provides a range of solutions and services to financial institutions in the Middle East, addressing areas such as private, commercial and retail banking, capital markets, alternative investments and energy trading. We're committed to continuously develop and enhance these solutions and services to help support our customers as they face new and difficult industry challenges. This award clearly demonstrates the value of that commitment."

About SunGard
SunGard is one of the world's leading software and IT services companies. SunGard serves more than 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries, including the world's 25 largest financial services companies.

SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, higher education and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software.

With annual revenue exceeding $5 billion, SunGard is ranked 435 on the Fortune 500 and is the largest privately held business software and services company on the Forbes list of private businesses. Based on information compiled by Datamonitor*, SunGard is the third largest provider of business applications software after Oracle and SAP. Continuity, Insurance & Risk has recognized SunGard as service provider of the year an unprecedented five times. For more information, please visit SunGard at http://www.sungard.com.

*January 2009 Technology Vendors Financial Database Tracker http://www.datamonitor.com
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